Fusion x2 not available for potential VDSL2 customers

[mykmelez]

If you have a Pace gateway, you can keep look for resyncs at https://gateway.pace.com/xslt?PAGE=C_1_0 "DSL Link Errors" and https://gateway.pace.com/xslt?PAGE=C_5_3 "Training History"

It is a Pace (5168N), but that first page doesn't list "DSL Link Errors" as far as I can tell. It does list IP packet errors, and I'm receiving more errors than packets, apparently:

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IP Traffic  Bytes        Packets   Errors      %
Transmit:   388617152    1807595   0           0
Receive:    2586541105   2749500   2830543   102

[mykmelez]

If you have a Pace gateway, you can keep look for resyncs at https://gateway.pace.com/xslt?PAGE=C_1_0 "DSL Link Errors" and https://gateway.pace.com/xslt?PAGE=C_5_3 "Training History"

It is a Pace (5168N), but that first page doesn't list "DSL Link Errors" as far as I can tell. It does list IP packet errors, and I'm receiving more errors than packets, apparently:

I continued to have a high error rate, and I experienced some dropouts, so I called Sonic this morning, and they capped my line at ~29Mbps down. I'll see how it goes.

(NB: the Training History page asks for a "technician password," which I don't have, so I can't access it.)

[mykmelez]

I continued to have a high error rate, and I experienced some dropouts, so I called Sonic this morning, and they capped my line at ~29Mbps down. I'll see how it goes.

Circling back around to this, my line ended up stabilizing around 27-28Mbps, which is where it's been for the last nine months or so, until…

Last week one night the connection went down around midnight. No dial tone either. And when I woke up in the morning, it was still down. So I made plans to call Sonic after another (scheduled) call, but a few minutes before that call ended, the connection came back up.

And it came back up at a higher rate: 37Mbps down. It's been stable around that rate since then (with one minor fluctuation a few days ago, where the rate dropped slightly, according to the Fusion Line Profile graph).

So I've suddenly gained ~9-10Mbps, although I have no idea how. I considered calling Sonic anyway, to find out what they know about the change. But ultimately it doesn't particularly matter how it happened, nor whether it's intentional or a side-effect of other work by Sonic or AT&T; I'm just happy that it happened! 37Mbps is a lot closer to the expected downstream bandwidth for my distance to the CO.

I still see a high rate of errors on https://gateway.pace.com/xslt?PAGE=C_1_0, but that doesn't seem to affect the overall connection quality. So things are looking good.

However, I continue to reserve the right to be envious of my friends out on 5th Avenue in the Richmond who are getting fiber this summer.