Upload Trouble

[danjw]

When gaming i cant host any sort of game on the Xbox360, im on 10 meg bb and have got a consistent upload of 460kb/s+ however i have breaks in my cable, ie one at the brown box, one at my wall where the tele was, one going to when the tele is now, then from there the cable goes outside, theres another break there cos the technition droped a slab on the cable, snapping it , idiot, anyway he fixed it up... my speed is fine baring that but will i suffer any problems because theres 5 breaks in the cable?

[Nedkelly]

It depends how well they fixed the cable .THe best thing to do is look at the diag screen 192.168.100.1 and look at the upstream downstream levels and the snr level

[danjw]

Originally Posted by Nedkelly

It depends how well they fixed the cable .THe best thing to do is look at the diag screen 192.168.100.1 and look at the upstream downstream levels and the snr level

whats a normal or good lever for upstream downstream? i got

Cable Modem Downstream
Downstream Lock : Locked
Downstream Channel Id : 0
Downstream Frequency : 586750000 Hz
Downstream Modulation : QAM64
Downstream Symbol Rate : 6952 Ksym/sec
Downstream Interleave Depth : taps12Increment17
Downstream Receive Power Level : -10.0 dBmV
Downstream SNR : 31.3 dB

Cable Modem Upstream
Upstream Lock : Locked
Upstream Channel ID : 5
Upstream Frequency : 41584000 Hz
Upstream Modulation : QPSK
Upstream Symbol Rate : 2560 Ksym/sec
Upstream transmit Power Level : 53.0 dBmV
Upstream Mini-Slot Size : 2

[Druchii]

I'm no expert but those figurs look borderline to me... -10 and 53 on power levels.

Nice SNR though

I'll let a real expert tell you more accurately though. Sorry if my post worries you at all.

[homealone]

Originally Posted by Druchii

I'm no expert but those figurs look borderline to me... -10 and 53 on power levels.

Nice SNR though

I'll let a real expert tell you more accurately though. Sorry if my post worries you at all.

this sticky gives an idea of the 'correct' levels.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...al-levels.html

[Nedkelly]

Yes the -10 is just in the spec but not recomended updtream a little bit high but the snr is good

[dcclanuk]

Downstream SNR : 32.8 dB

mine any good? i assume so since its similar to OP's

What does it mean tho lol

[Druchii]

Originally Posted by dcclanuk

Downstream SNR : 32.8 dB

mine any good? i assume so since its similar to OP's

What does it mean tho lol

SNR stands for Signal To Noise Ratio. Basically how much the device can hear through the noise. The better the signal, obviously the better, however introduce noise and things may be distorted... Leading to errors. 32.8dB is fine. The device can hear it enough through the noise for a decent service.

My perosonal SNR averages 39.5 dB.

[J.D]

Hi Druchii & everyone. Could you give me advice on my current levels please?. I'm quite the newbie when it comes to this side of networking . I'd really like to know because I mainly play online and I'd like to know how strong my line is.



I'm still on 10 meg and waiting for 20meg in Edinburgh. Hope it won't be too long so I can test it out for something new to play with. I do not abuse my line as 10 meg is fast in the groups that are news so I don't ever need to. Could fill 500GB fairly fast enough but who the hell wants to burn that lot. I'd rather shoot peoples heads and faces off.

Anyone here play Call of Duty online?.

[Druchii]

That signal to noise ratio is perfect and all the other levels look to be well within what they should be.

Nice stable, really strong connection you have there

[Sirpingalot]

Mine is really on-the-edge being at around 30.3dB - 31.5dB. Still, I get the full 10mb/s most of the time. (Most of the time )

[J.D]

Originally Posted by Druchii

That signal to noise ratio is perfect and all the other levels look to be well within what they should be.

Nice stable, really strong connection you have there

Thank you for such a quick response Druchii .

That's absolutely fantastic news as I thought being in the city would certainly mean congestion. I'm on the outskirts of the city centre but still in a well populated area.

I can game away happily for now and hope and prey for the 20 meg to be just as efficient.

My mother and sister have just had 2meg installed in their new home as well as the phone. Here are my mothers levels. They live a 2 minute walk from my house. (scarily close) I'm looking after my sister while my mother is at church just now and I'm posting from here).

[Hex]

Downstream SNR : 40.7 dB

Highest number yet, what do I win?

[Druchii]

There connection looks even better than yours to be honest.

The higher the Signal to noise ratio the better. (30+ is acceptable, anythign below you'll see problems)
Anything between -10 and +10 is said to be fine for downstream power levels.
And as for upstream, things like 50 would cause worry, however that 33 looks nice to me

EDIT: Aimed at JD

[Nedkelly]

Only got 38.5