Fritz!Box 7490 on FTTC/VDSL2

The unit would appear to 'auto detect' things like G.INP, Vectoring and SRA as there are no obvious settings in the GUI for those options.

The unit seems really stable but much to my annoyance over the weekend my line had a wobble due to some heavy roadworks outside and DLM intervened slightly by placing interleaving on my line and reducing my speed slightly. Errors are still low for the past 36hrs, hopefully the roadworks will be gone later today and it'll put me back on Fastpath in a day or so.

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simoncraddock said:
The unit would appear to 'auto detect' things like G.INP, Vectoring and SRA as there are no obvious settings in the GUI for those options.

The unit seems really stable but much to my annoyance over the weekend my line had a wobble due to some heavy roadworks outside and DLM intervened slightly by placing interleaving on my line and reducing my speed slightly. Errors are still low for the past 36hrs, hopefully the roadworks will be gone later today and it'll put me back on Fastpath in a day or so.

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Thank you for that, it's good to see it in the flesh (so to speak). I have a unit ear marked and think I will be making the purchase this week. I've got roadworks to lol - you're not in the same area are you LOL :)
 
Blinking council are probably spending their budget before end of the tax year. They were running a rather crappy looking generator for most of the day on Friday which played havoc. I noticed this morning leaving for work that it was hooked up to a truck so hopefully its gone when I get home!
 
simoncraddock said:
Blinking council are probably spending their budget before end of the tax year. They were running a rather crappy looking generator for most of the day on Friday which played havoc. I noticed this morning leaving for work that it was hooked up to a truck so hopefully its gone when I get home!
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They're one of the worst things for interference, I still have them up here and mines dipped so who knows. I don't think we have spring any more its now road work season :)
 
sga1111 said:
Hopefully it will return fairly quickly. So overall you finding the Fritz! a good bit of kit?
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So far so good!

I love the phone handling, I've got my Gigaset phones hooked up working a treat and last night set it up so my HTC M8 mobile connects in to the Fritzbox via VOIP and calls to my home are routed to my mobile over the data connection. I can also make calls from my mobile via the Fritzbox and place the call over the landline if necessary or via my Sipgate account..

Everything just seems to work as intended once you get to grips with the GUI as it can be a learning curve finding options. However once set up it just does its job very well.
 
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So far so good!

I love the phone handling, I've got my Gigaset phones hooked up working a treat and last night set it up so my HTC M8 mobile connects in to the Fritzbox via VOIP and calls to my home are routed to my mobile over the data connection. I can also make calls from my mobile via the Fritzbox and place the call over the landline if necessary or via my Sipgate account..

Everything just seems to work as intended once you get to grips with the GUI as it can be a learning curve finding options. However once set up it just does its job very well.
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Good to hear simon :) Sounds like its not a bad box at all :)
Looking at your earlier screen shot your line (although a little slower than mine) i would guess works in a similar fashion. That being any line wobble and DLM applies interleaving (tyically around 8ms again as your screen shot suggests) and a loss of speed to the tune of around 8Mb over what you would have when fastpath. Again if anything like mine normally returns after a week or two once the line/DLM "wobble" corrects itself. Highly annoying when it happens though.
 
bitsNbobs said:
Good to hear simon :) Sounds like its not a bad box at all :)
Looking at your earlier screen shot your line (although a little slower than mine) i would guess works in a similar fashion. That being any line wobble and DLM applies interleaving (tyically around 8ms again as your screen shot suggests) and a loss of speed to the tune of around 8Mb over what you would have when fastpath. Again if anything like mine normally returns after a week or two once the line/DLM "wobble" corrects itself. Highly annoying when it happens though.
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All back to normal this morning, DLM reset my connection in the early hours and I'm back on fastpath etc. Surprised how quickly it's reversed it.

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Yep similar to what happens on my line you lost around 7.5Mb when it interleaved you i typically lose around 8Mb.

Does indeed seem it put you back to fastpath quickly :)
How long was you interleaved for? With my Openreach ECI it normally takes as good as a week (ish) minimum. and 2 weeks (ish) when DLM is in a real bad mood ;)
 
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Yep similar to what happens on my line you lost around 7.5Mb when it interleaved you i typically lose around 8Mb.

Does indeed seem it put you back to fastpath quickly :)
How long was you interleaved for? With my Openreach ECI it normally takes as good as a week (ish) minimum. and 2 weeks (ish) when DLM is in a real bad mood ;)
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Since early hours Saturday, so roughly 72 hrs at a guess.
 
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When I removed my powerline adapters I noticed positive changed around 48-72hrs also. Seems to be fairly quick. Looks good with that combo modem/router you have there. I want one but it a bit rubbish. Could hide it in the cupboard though.
 
I'm still INP 6, max delay 16ms (actual 10ms), 54Mbps downstream. Been like this for days now, hoping I'm not stuck like this for good. Combined total of ES+SES is neglible. FEC errors are up to about up to 25000 daily typically.
 
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Since early hours Saturday, so roughly 72 hrs at a guess.
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Thats quite good :) 48-72 hours is normally when you see the first minor change, obviously for you it decided the line was stable enough so went and got rid of interleave straight away :)

Ixel said:
I'm still INP 6, max delay 16ms (actual 10ms), 54Mbps downstream. Been like this for days now, hoping I'm not stuck like this for good. Combined total of ES+SES is neglible. FEC errors are up to about up to 25000 daily typically.
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Not that i would recommend you do so but a bit of high current ;) across the innards of you Filtered faceplate and then reporting a fault should have BT out to not only give you a new faceplate but a line reset.

Naughty yes, likely to get it fixed though also yes ;)
 
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Hmm, an interesting idea but I wouldn't want the guilt even if it worked.

Unfortunately the crashes have returned, three times today the router has just crashed for no apparent reason. This time I'm not even accessing the web UI at the moment. I thought it might be something to do with heat so I ran a fan on it but while it's nice and cool it still did it once again this evening. I can't recall trying a universal power supply on it yet so I'll buy one and hope one of the plugs fit. I somehow don't believe that's the problem though. The only other idea I can think of trying is to use the recovery image so that the firmware is reinstalled as fresh. These crashes may still be linked to me manually disabling the firewall and disabling NAT - though again I can't believe it's that.
 
Ixel said:
Unfortunately the crashes have returned, three times today the router has just crashed for no apparent reason. This time I'm not even accessing the web UI at the moment. I thought it might be something to do with heat so I ran a fan on it but while it's nice and cool it still did it once again this evening. I can't recall trying a universal power supply on it yet so I'll buy one and hope one of the plugs fit. I somehow don't believe that's the problem though. The only other idea I can think of trying is to use the recovery image so that the firmware is reinstalled as fresh. These crashes may still be linked to me manually disabling the firewall and disabling NAT - though again I can't believe it's that.
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I can't test here as I'm just running on a single IP with NAT, all I can say is mines been on for a week now without a single reboot.
 
simoncraddock said:
So far so good!

I love the phone handling, I've got my Gigaset phones hooked up working a treat and last night set it up so my HTC M8 mobile connects in to the Fritzbox via VOIP and calls to my home are routed to my mobile over the data connection. I can also make calls from my mobile via the Fritzbox and place the call over the landline if necessary or via my Sipgate account..

Everything just seems to work as intended once you get to grips with the GUI as it can be a learning curve finding options. However once set up it just does its job very well.
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Thank you, good to know, one has now been ordered ;)
 
I'm swithering whether to buy the new 3490 box at the moment. All the same internals as the 7490 minus the DECT and telephony stuff (Possibly internal storage too. Only costs £130 delivered.

My only concern is WiFi coverage. Need to figure out how much worse it is in the range department compared to my Asus N66u
 
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