Good stats or not ?

[old Bill]

I am trying my nephews Dray Tek for a couple of days. Not sure if my stats are any good or not ? My sync seems to be lower but thats as much as I can make out.
ADSL Information       (ADSL Firmware Version:  E.38.2.23 )
  ATM Statistics   TX Blocks   RX Blocks   Corrected Blocks   Uncorrected Blocks
     94890   1241068   958   10
  ADSL Status   Mode   State   Up Speed   Down Speed   SNR Margin   Loop Att.
     G.DMT   SHOWTIME   832000   5024000   8.5   44.5

[Rik]

Well, you have better stats than me, Bill, but that's not difficult.

Sync speed of 5024 should get you a 4000 profile, you've got 8.5db of margin, which suggests that your target margin has been set at 9db to improve stability. The attenuation is 10db better than mine and indicates you're about 4.5km from the exchange.

[old Bill]

Thanks for that. I was getting better results from the Belkin. A friend of mine is looking at buying one of these. Any opions on weather its a good make or not ? D-Link DSL-2740b Draft N Wireless 

[Rik]

I've used a few D-Links, Bill, and they seem to be OK. Personally, though, I'd be wary of pre-N and draft-N models, quite often they seem to have incompatibilities with other people's hardware, at least in my experience.

[old Bill]

Well I am now trying my mates D Link. IMO its the best router going. It suits my line and is very easy to set up. The level of detail is great and you can have it set up in a few moments or you can spend a while setting up all the advanced  settings.
Mode: G.DMT 
Type: Interleave 
Line Coding: Trellis Off 
Status: No Defect 
Link Power State: L0 
 
  Downstream Upstream
SNR Margin (dB): 5.8  8.0 
Attenuation (dB): 48.0  29.0 



Output Power (dBm): 19.7  11.9 
Attainable Rate (Kbps): 6144  1000 
Rate (Kbps): 5632  832 
K (number of bytes in DMT frame): 177  27 
R (number of check bytes in RS code word): 14  16 
S (RS code word size in DMT frame): 1  8 
D (interleaver depth): 0  0 
Delay (msec): 0  0 
Super Frames: 533654  533652 
Super Frame Errors: 37  76 
RS Words: 36288518  4536042 
RS Correctable Errors: 311965  286 
RS Uncorrectable Errors: 272  N/A 
HEC Errors: 32  66 
OCD Errors: 0  0 
LCD Errors: 0  0 
Total Cells: 120505315  0 
Data Cells: 1869223  0 
Bit Errors: 0  0 
Total ES: 25  0 
Total SES: 0  0 
Total UAS: 13  0 
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Just a very quick verdict but it gets by vote.

[Rik]

It goes to prove my theory that, since Max, there is no longer a single router that can be cited as good or best, Bill. Before Max, I would have recommended Draytek, but I found it just wasn't up to my line, and the humble Netgear did best. If you do get a chance to experiment, as you have, you can often make startling improvements.

I'm glad you've found the right router for your particular conditions.