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D6200 DSL statistics / connection speed

Garry4
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D6200 DSL statistics / connection speed

Hi all,

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I have looked online and through the manual to no avail.

All previous routers I have used allowed me to get DSL statistics, what actual rate it had trained up at, SNR etc.

When I bought the D6200 I was in a city with very good connectivity so I never bothered to try and find this information out.

Now that I have moved to a more rural area I am not getting great data rates, I would like to find out what the modem is doing. I have connected up an old router that alolows me to see that information, and I can get 10 Mb/sec but this often drops to 5 Mb/sec or worse. This older router ner re-trains, it only ever rolls back the speed so I am loath to use it (Also only has slow wireless)

Am I able to see modem statistics on the D6200, I would like to talk to the company that owns my copper in case there is line degradation somewhere, but I would like some hard facts before I go in half hearted?

Many thanks,

Garry

 

Model: D6200|Dual Band 11ac ADSL Modem Router
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antinode
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Re: D6200 DSL statistics / connection speed

> I have "Googled" it, searched the Netgear community, [...]

 

   "it"?  "Googled"/"searched" for _what_?  And now I (with my weak
psychic powers) should know what you found, where?

 

> [...] The only statistics I could find were WAN/LAN not the modem.

 

   What do you think that "WAN" means here?

 

   Page 93:

 

      > To show the connection statistics:

 

         1. Select Advanced > Administration > Router Status.

 

         2. Click Show Statistics.

 

   The lower section of that report ("ADSL Link [...]") refers to the
modem.  (I assume that there's something similar for VDSL, but all I've
seen is ADSL.)  My D7000[v1] (V1.0.1.70_1.0.1) shows a page very like
that picture in the D6200 User Manual.

 

   What, exactly, do you seek which is not shown there?

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antinode
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Re: D6200 DSL statistics / connection speed

> [...] I have looked online and through the manual to no avail. [...]

 

   Where "online"?  ("online" is a very big place.)  Which "the manual"?

 

   Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation.  Get the User Manual.  Read.  Look for "Statistics".

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Garry4
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Re: D6200 DSL statistics / connection speed

Hi,

I have "Googled" it, searched the Netgear community, and looked through the Netgear D6200 User Manual. The only statistics I could find were WAN/LAN not the modem.

Many thanks,

Garry

Model: D6200|Dual Band 11ac ADSL Modem Router
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antinode
Guru

Re: D6200 DSL statistics / connection speed

> I have "Googled" it, searched the Netgear community, [...]

 

   "it"?  "Googled"/"searched" for _what_?  And now I (with my weak
psychic powers) should know what you found, where?

 

> [...] The only statistics I could find were WAN/LAN not the modem.

 

   What do you think that "WAN" means here?

 

   Page 93:

 

      > To show the connection statistics:

 

         1. Select Advanced > Administration > Router Status.

 

         2. Click Show Statistics.

 

   The lower section of that report ("ADSL Link [...]") refers to the
modem.  (I assume that there's something similar for VDSL, but all I've
seen is ADSL.)  My D7000[v1] (V1.0.1.70_1.0.1) shows a page very like
that picture in the D6200 User Manual.

 

   What, exactly, do you seek which is not shown there?

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Garry4
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Re: D6200 DSL statistics / connection speed

Hi,

Show statistics is indeed the option I needed. I had tried it earlier, but I was expecting a lot more DSL information so I blindly overlooked it.

While it isn't super informatrive, it does give me enough to talk to the line company.

Many thanks, sorry that I bothered the forum with something that was in front of me all along.

 

And thanks for the very prompt replies!!

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antinode
Guru

Re: D6200 DSL statistics / connection speed

> [...] I was expecting a lot more DSL information [...]

 

   I'm with you there.  On my old Cisco 678, for example:

 

cbos>show interface wan0

wan0   ADSL Physical Port
       Line Trained
Actual Configuration:
  Overhead Framing: 3
  Trellis Coding: Enabled
  Standard Compliance: T1.413
  Downstream Data Rate: 1536 Kbps
  Upstream Data Rate: 1024 Kbps
  Interleave S Downstream: 4
  Interleave D Downstream: 16
  Interleave R Downstream: 16
  Interleave S Upstream: 4
  Interleave D Upstream: 8
  Interleave R Upstream: 16
  Modem Microcode: G96
  DSP version: 0
  Operating State: Showtime/Data Mode
Configured:

   Echo Cancellation: Disabled
  Overhead Framing: 3
  Coding Gain: Auto
  TX Power Attenuation: 0dB
  Trellis Coding: Enabled
  Bit Swapping: Disabled
  Standard Compliance: T1.413
  Remote Standard Compliance: T1.413
  Tx Start Bin: 0x6
  Tx End Bin: 0x1f
  Data Interface: Utopia L1
Status:
  Local SNR Margin: 31.5dB
  Local Coding Gain: 6.5dB
  Local Transmit Power: 12.3dB
  Local Attenuation: 19.5dB
  Remote Attenuation: 17.0dB
Local Counters:

  Interleaved RS Corrected Bytes: 12812247
  Interleaved Symbols with CRC Errors: 13266690
  No Cell Delineation Interleaved: 13628416
  Out of Cell Delineation Interleaved: 14933760
  Header Error Check Counter Interleaved: 13495936
  Count of Severely Errored Frames: 13039872
  Count of Loss of Signal Frames: 13691008
Remote Counters:
  Interleaved RS Corrected Bytes: 12518235
  Interleaved Symbols with CRC Errors: 15393836
  No Cell Delineation Interleaved: 13267840
  Header Error Check Counter Interleaved: 14120170
  Count of Severely Errored Frames: 12286848
  Count of Loss of Signal Frames: 12906880


   Sadly, when I upgraded my (Qwest/CenturyLink) service above 1.5Mb/s,
the otherwise-satisfactory Cisco 678 couldn't keep up. It said:

 

  Downstream Data Rate: 7168 Kbps
  Upstream Data Rate: 896 Kbps

 

but the observed downstream speed was only about half that.

 

   This lead to a succession of Netgear products (all of which had/have
more firmware bugs than the Cisco 678, and no supported command-line
interface).

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