Router stats info analysis request

GWillow · 27 Mar 2012 at 19:03

Hi all,

Having read a few posts about router stats (in particular in the Billion router thread) I realised I have no idea what the numbers mean and whether they are better to be high or low.

He are my stats, would someone be so kind please as to explain whether mine are good or not. The is on a Netgear DG834g V1

Here is the result of a speedtest on a recently upgraded BT 21CN line.

I'm looking for a new router (probably the Billion 7800N), should stats influence my decision.

Many thanks

KIA · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:42

What's your IP profile?

http://www.speedtester.bt.com/ (java)

Tealc · 27 Mar 2012 at 20:59

The 0dB margin in the first image would concern me. Could be a spurios reading but 0dB means there is no signal seen.

With an attenuation of 20dB you really should be pushing 20 Mbit.

65 hours WAN uptime but 749 hours system time shows that you had a dropped connection a couple of days ago.

GWillow · 27 Mar 2012 at 21:29

KIA said:
What's your IP profile?

http://www.speedtester.bt.com/ (java)

Is this what you meant

GWillow · 27 Mar 2012 at 22:17

and some router stats

Sin_Chase · 27 Mar 2012 at 23:20

You could adjust the SnR target to try and erk more speed out of it.

I tweak mine to 70% down from 100% that results in a noise margin of 3.5 (down from 6) and train speed goes from 16,000Kbit/Sec to 18,900Kbit/Sec

I think the DGTeam Firmware will let you mess about on your model:

http://dgteam.ilbello.com/index.php

deadite66 · 27 Mar 2012 at 23:22

reading 0dB is normal for netgear, my DGND3300 does the same on 20Mb

Tealc · 28 Mar 2012 at 00:28

deadite66 said:
reading 0dB is normal for netgear, my DGND3300 does the same on 20Mb

Oh ok. I use a DG834GT and haven't seen it. Maybe it's a peculiarity of a different chipset than mine.

GWillow · 28 Mar 2012 at 07:05

This morning the Noise ratio is 5db

KIA · 28 Mar 2012 at 11:43

GWillow said:
Is this what you meant

You need to install Java and visit the same site if you want the IP profile.

GWillow · 31 Mar 2012 at 21:49

KIA said:
You need to install Java and visit the same site if you want the IP profile.

Trying to get this to work on the wired PC but it just keeps erroring out. it works on the wireless laptop but thought I read somewhere that it should be on a wired connection.

I'll keep trying.

This evening the reading is generally 0db but went down to -3db a little while ago.

GWillow · 31 Mar 2012 at 22:17

Think I'll hang fire on the new Billion for the moment as I thought that I read that it wasn't too good with a low noise ration

PistolPete · 1 Apr 2012 at 09:25

Quite the opposite, the Billion in most cases is excellent with a low SNR. However there is something not quite right with your line - that low an ATT should be seeing a much better sync rate so I'd be trying to solve that first.

GWillow · 1 Apr 2012 at 14:48

I've rebooted the router and I'm now getting the following stats:

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 13358 1099
Line Attenuation 20 db 4 db
Noise Margin 6db 6 db

The download Noise Margin has been pretty steady at 6db since this morning (just the odd, brief drop to 4b)

GWillow · 1 Apr 2012 at 22:11

From about 7:00 this evening it's started dropping again now and is between 1db and 0db :confused:

GWillow · 3 Apr 2012 at 21:32

Just performed a BT speedtest (via wireless conenction) and got these results.

Download speedachieved during the test was - 5.35 Mbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 4 Mbps-21 Mbps.
IP Profile for your line is - 11.31 Mbps