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Nice one thanks for checking, hopefully they can patch it soon

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Nice one. I had a look through the CVEs on the asus advisory site and some of them appeared to be resolved in prior updates and some not (the 2023 ones in particular).  Would be good to know hopefully that the dsl router isn’t abandoned for updates, it seems to miss a fair few compared to it’s sister device the RT.

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I can recommend Nord VPN, been with them for ages, found them always reliable and well priced.

Their ‘hack’ was a lot of hot air really, a config file on a single server in Finland was exposed (not user data), and they quickly went to lengths to make sure that the same thing wouldn’t happen again. Between a mix of how they use shared datacentres and also how they deploy their vpn servers.  I looked into it quite extensively at the time and was quite satisfied it wasn’t a problem and they acted very swiftly to avoid a recurrence.

I’m sure others are good services but I find Nord good so far.  I like to have a few countries profiles set up in my asus router to cater for devices that can’t use a vpn app (such as TVs etc) I can flip on to cater for those as necessary.

 

You can get referrals for additional free time from them too.

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Still 1 on the downstream, although i’m told that might change over the next few nights as even though they didn’t do a dlm reset they said to expect dlm to kick in after it’s monitored a much better line.

I have noticed that G.INP is now enabled on the upstream which it never used to be either.  Although this was enabled this morning after my line dropped (before their works) and remained on after they moved me to a different cable this afternoon, so it may end up turning off again.  I’d like to see it stay on though given the benefits, but it was always off until today.

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Interesting development.  Openreach came back and moved my physical line from one of the two cables which run from the junction box to the cab which was heavily subscribed, to the other which was far less used and far less noisy.

 

At this point my line came back up and synched far higher than it ever has before 72mbps down and 17.5 mbps up, as opposed to 65ish mbps which was my prior all time high, and 47mbps which was my current synch today, & never went above 8mbps up before. and other random issues I had were gone. Also, the synch is now far closer between the asus and the Sky router.

 

The takeaway I have from this is that the Asus is far worse now at dealing with noisy lines than the cheapo Sky router is, given the disparity between the synch speed when I was on the noisier cable.  I would hope there is something Asus can do to improve their noise handling on the router as there is clearly some improvements they could make.

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So DLM has done it’s thing and it’s settled roughly back to where it had before.

The behaviour of the ASUS router is the same though in that it syncs a fair bit lower than the Sky one. The main difference is that the asus one gives an INP-REIN value of 1.  I can’t confirm at the moment what that value is for the Sky router currently as the UI doesn’t show it and need to speak with them.

The sync values as of today for the ASUS router is 51mbps and the Sky router is 62mbps.  Strange.

 

 

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They could reduce it. But they’re including the costs of not only bailing out the failed energy companies, but also the people who couldn’t or wouldn’t pay their bills. Ofgem decided it was in the energy companies best interest to have everyone pay non-payers bills than have them chase people who owed in the normal ways. They also changed the way they calculate the standing charge to give the companies more margin – it’s scandalous how anti consumer it all is.

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It’s a shame though that standing charges are going up still, and they’re already sky high.

Octopus tracker is the way to go, the unit prices are almost back to normal on that (for now). If anyone needs an octopus referral for some free bill credit, let me know.

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Are there any guidelines for how many FEC/CRC/ES/SES errors are ‘ok’ and don’t bother the DLM process?

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They did yes, as I can see the speed is lower and snr is higher than where it settles at once dlm has done it’s thing. Had the sky router plugged in initially and swapped it over to the asus in order to leave it alone for dlm to complete. On the swapover it did the same thing (quite a bit lower synch) so just waiting to see where dlm settles now when left alone a few days, although i’m expecting it to be the same as the figures are the same as the last time they did a dlm reset for me.  Will see in a few days though but seems the asus just isn’t particularly happy (maybe because of it being sogea, as it was happy beforehand).

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It was to do with some leftover config when my line moved from standard FTTC to a sogea line some time back. They didn’t disconnect the ‘e side‘ portion that was now not necessary, the cabinet wasn’t handling it properly or something so they disconnected it.  Didn’t help this particular issue though

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Not by default, i’ve had to enlist assistance via both Sky and Openreach who were here yesterday to dig out more information.  There was another issue on my line by which even the Sky router wasn’t 100% happy that they needed to resolve at the cabinet. But the lower sync issue with the Asus remained afterwards which the sky router does not exhibit, they were able to dig out some more stats from the openreach end for when that was plugged in.

 

thanks for assistance on this. It would be nice to get this back working as it used to, as there seem to be little to no other options for wifi 6 modem routers. All other routers seem to require an external modem.

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It seems with this the main difference is that INP-REIN value. When I plug in the Asus, it gets a value of 1 on downstream and syncs lower. This does not happen on the Sky router.

I wonder why it is the Asus gets the INP-REIN value and other routers don’t?

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The issues seemed to coincide with updating to the latest official version, so the prior one 3.0.0.4.386.49608 would have been the better version.

However, i’ve now tried going to both latest 388 and earlier 386 with a factory reset and it didn’t seem to improve. Plugging the Sky router in immediatelty boosted the speeds back up and no errors.

I am stumped now, it’s almost as if the cabinet just does not like this asus router.

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Sure thing I don’t intend on messing around with it any further as I’ve sort of run out of things to try now

it had been up for about 2 months with these issues before I started swapping it over etc to get to the bottom of it.

In honesty things were solid until I went to the current latest firmware months ago and it all started going downhill then. Frustratingly reverting to the prior fw from mid last year didn’t resolve it however it’s like there was some stuff still hanging around.

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