+11dBmV DS - Power level(s)
Just A quick question, as I know I can expect a quicker reponse from public members than on the VM forums, Just looking for feedback really.
So here's the score, As of this morning (8am - My US was 56dBmV - and DS (4 channels) was all between 4-6dBmV depending on the time of day. VM Engineer come out at 9am, checked the line, put new connecters on and a new splitter outside, but after all that failed and it become 9dBmV and up to 56dBmV. He rang for Central Networks? to come out. They arrived at 11ish, (Didn't knock on, just seen them outside) - Net went off a couple of times and then notice they cleared off after dinner, leaving my power levels at over 10dBmV (current sitting at 11dBmV) and US at 49.8dBmV. My question is, how safe are these levels for the superhub? I'm awaiting a reponse from the admin(s) from the VM Forum for the next step. Just annoyed that I've had today off and really it seems like it was for nothing. Why couldn't this of been sorted the day they put the SH in (2 weeks ago) - The levels have been :s since the thing was put in. Check the graphs below, as you will see around the times I have said above, you will notice the fluxuations while they was doing work on the cab. [img]Download Failed (1)[/img] |
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Because your downstream power has gone up by c. 5 dBmv and your upstream has fallen by c. 5 dBmv, it seems that all they did was to move your tap point - perhaps from 29 dB attenuation down to 22 dB. The should have put a 10 dB FPA on your modem to compensate for the high DS power.
But they won't have cured the root cause of hig upstream power. I imagine you're close to the cabinet, in which case your upstream power should have been much lower - closer to or below 40 dBmv. So, how far from the street cab are you and what do you think the network bods did? Your power levels are too high and can affect performance (e.g. crosstalk). The DS levels will rise fuurther as it gets colder. |
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The little green one they looked at (I Could see them out the window) so it's really close, it's 2 houses next to me.
If you look at the graphs between 11-1 - thats when they was there messing about. It was 9dBmV earier, it's risen to 11dBmV right now. |
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So, what I say holds. Your downstream power may be causing crosstalk and there's possibly an upstream impairment (maybe at the optical node) to make matters worse.
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I Guess that means bad news for me then... Just waiting back on a response. Apparantly the case has been closed but I don't see how when my power levels are looking like this!
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wow how you managing to graph the data? a friend of mine on tbb is trying to setup the same with some scripts.
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Network techs won't have just moved up a tap, they dont do simple jobs like that. this sounds like Sid architecture and they've tweaked the power of the amp or swapped the tap for a less attenuated one
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Those levels are fine going back to the original question, so long as it's working it's all cool.
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Please explain, you've my attention! As a reminder the DOCSIS 3 modems digitally sample a big band and extract channels from there so if you're thinking of the isolation between channels being overpowered it's not going to happen, moreover the isolation between frequencies on standard modems must be sufficient to handle the DOCSIS specifications. ---------- Post added at 14:41 ---------- Previous post was at 14:39 ---------- Quote:
This is done by network techs, moving a customer's drop from one tap to another in a cabinet is easily doable by service. |
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wget http://username:password@192.168.0.1/RgConnect.asp Then redirect the output to a script, which scraped the data out of the webpage. I just tried that, and, at least as far as the superhubs go, it no longer works. Its piqued my curiosity, I think I'll poke around a bit. |
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Okay, wasted about an hour poking around with this. Its now a two step process.
You need to feed the login script with your username and password, then save the cookie it gives you. Then you need to call the RgConnect.asp page, feeding it your previously saved cookie and save the resulting page for parsing. Clunky as hell but it works. |
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My Superhub doesn't supply you with a cookie. Just keeps u logged on based on your IP address and activity.
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For those who may be interested, this is a really simple (and somewhat hacky) perl program that will log in to the superhub, interrogate the stats page, and output the power and noise levels.
The program could easily be modified to store the data in a database for graphing. Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl |
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