Cisco 887VA and Vodafone FTTC 80/20

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Hi,

Have just had Vodafone 80/20 FTTC installed at work, engineer did the business with the Openreach modem and told me that we are syncing at higher speeds than was anticipating (basically the full 80/20). Our provider kindly forgot (:mad:) to supply me with the 4-port WiFi router that we were supposed to use, so I've had to temporarily repurpose a 887VA I had earmarked for something else.

I have since plugged the VDSL line into it which I thought I had configured properly, and although it all syncs up correctly the download speed is woeful. It makes me think something obvious is wrong - like MTU, etc. I did try changing the MTU to 1492 and "ip tcp adjust-mss 1452" on the Vlan after a Google search but it made no difference.

Speedtest (on any server) is showing around ~10Mb/sec down, and ~20Mb/sec up. Curiously the upload seems to be fine?

Code:
Controller VDSL 0 is UP

Daemon Status:		 Up 

			XTU-R (DS)		XTU-C (US)
Chip Vendor ID:		'BDCM'			 'IFTN'
Chip Vendor Specific:   0x0000			 0xB203
Chip Vendor Country:    0xB500			 0xB500
Modem Vendor ID:	'CSCO'			 '    '
Modem Vendor Specific:  0x4602			 0x0000
Modem Vendor Country:   0xB500			 0x0000
Serial Number Near:    FCZ173***** C887VA-W 15.3(3)M3
Serial Number Far:     5502331466
Modem Version Near:    15.3(3)M3
Modem Version Far:     0xb203

Modem Status:		 TC Sync (Showtime!) 
DSL Config Mode:	 AUTO 
Trained Mode:		 G.993.2 (VDSL2) Profile 17a
TC Mode:		 PTM 
Selftest Result:	 0x00 
DELT configuration:	 disabled 
DELT state:		 not running 
Trellis:		 ON			  ON
SRA: 			 disabled			 disabled
 SRA count: 		 0			 0
Bit swap: 		 enabled			 enabled
 Bit swap count:	 0			 0
Line Attenuation:	  0.0 dB		  0.0 dB
Signal Attenuation:	  0.0 dB		  0.0 dB
Noise Margin:		  6.4 dB		 12.2 dB
Attainable Rate:	81668 kbits/s		 28733 kbits/s
Actual Power:		 12.7 dBm		  6.8 dBm
Per Band Status:       	D1 	D2 	D3 	U0 	U1 	U2 	U3
Line Attenuation(dB):   10.9	25.7	39.9	0.9	19.1	31.4	N/A	
Signal Attenuation(dB): 10.9	25.7	39.9	0.9	18.9	31.3	N/A	
Noise Margin(dB):       6.4	6.4	6.4	12.3	12.4	12.1	N/A	
Total FECC:		0			 0
Total ES:		147			 0
Total SES:		0			 0
Total LOSS:		0			 0
Total UAS:		0			 0
Total LPRS:		0			 0
Total LOFS:		0			 0
Total LOLS:		0			 0

Full inits:		1
Failed full inits:	0
Short inits:		0
Failed short inits:	0

Firmware	Source		File Name (version)
--------	------		-------------------
VDSL		embedded   	VDSL_LINUX_DEV_01212008 (1)

Modem FW  Version:	130205_1433-4.02L.03.A2pv6C035j.d23j
Modem PHY Version:	A2pv6C035j.d23j
Vendor Version:		Ap6v35j.23j 68


 		  DS Channel1	  DS Channel0	US Channel1	  US Channel0
Speed (kbps):	          0	       79987	         0	       20000
SRA Previous Speed:       0	           0	         0	           0
Previous Speed:	          0	           0	         0	           0
Reed-Solomon EC:          0	           0	         0	           0
CRC Errors:	          0	         221	         0	           0
Header Errors:	          0	          37	         0	           0
Interleave (ms):       0.00	        0.00	      0.00	        0.00
Actual INP:	       0.00	        0.00	      0.00	        0.00

Training Log :	Stopped
Training Log Filename :	flash:vdsllog.bin
The CRC & header errors, whilst small, seem like they might be related to the problem but to be honest I haven't previously configured xDSL from scratch on these.

This is the pertinent interface config:
Code:
interface Vlan1
 ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
 ip nat inside
 ip virtual-reassembly in
!
interface Dialer0
 ip address negotiated
 ip nat outside
 ip virtual-reassembly in
 encapsulation ppp
 dialer pool 1
 dialer-group 1
 ppp authentication chap callin
 ppp chap hostname xxxxx
 ppp chap password 7 xxxxx
 ppp ipcp dns request
 ppp ipcp route default
!

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
 
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Could try hard coding the speed and duplex on the Cisco interfaces. May be an auto-negotiation issue.

Check collisions and late collisions on the Cisco router with "sh interface yourinterface", if they are high and rising, then its a duplex issue.
 
Alas, no collisions on any of the interfaces.

Only thing I haven't tried yet is using the white Openreach modem directly connected to a PC to verify it's not some freak line problem even though it's syncing at a high speed, but I can't do that until everyone has gone home.
 
Rebooting the router completely seems to have fixed it. Should've really done this at the start. :(

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Thanks for the help Nymins :)
 
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