Be* profiles: Speed/reliability/gaming

[MarcLister]

Just spotted the option on the Be* member centre to have my connection tweaked for speed or reliability and also a gaming profile.

Can anyone tell me what exactly would happen if I switched from Standard setting to optimise for speed or optimise for reliablity? Where would I see the differences?

Also what does the gaming mode do? Reduce my pings?

 

[cookie64]

well when i changed my setting from optimise to speed a few months ago when i first found out about this and i gained another 50kb/s but every few hours or so i seemed to loose Internet connection then next min back to normal again but kept doing this so i changed it back and no problems since haven't try ed the other settings so cant tell you what they do exactly but you would assume lower speed maby and better pings like you said.

 

[tolien]

They change your target SNR margin (standard, 6dB; optimise for speed, 3dB; stability, 9dB) and switch interleaving off (gaming mode).
As with changing these things on any connection, a lower SNR margin will make your connection faster but potentially less reliable and having interleaving on will increase your pings in exchange for increased error correction.

 

[$anch3z]

Put your line on a low snr and check your router for hec and crc errors - if it ok under load for a decent period of time you should be ok.

I wonder what happens with these when you set you target SNR to low and the line won't sync? Hopefully it'll auto fall back to a high snr profile.

Some Netgears router you can set your own target SNR in the CLI or alternately there are custom firmwares for a few which allow you to change you margin %.

 

[Greenlizard0]

Hmm..I might try to stick it on stability. Our Box keeps dropping our connection and has been doing so for a month. I rang their technical support line up to request a new one, but they said it was more likely that the problems were due to somebody else using one of the line extensions (nope) or dodgy filter/cable (tried changing them, but nope).

 

[tolien]

I wonder what happens with these when you set you target SNR to low and the line won't sync? Hopefully it'll auto fall back to a high snr profile.

If you don't confirm that you really really want to keep the settings within half an hour, it resets.

 

[Fanatic]

Just found out today that our Internet connection drops whenever someone phones the house

Time to check those ADSL filters I guess.