Whirlpool

Hi,

Does anyone know if it is possible to have a custom profile in the Adam members section? I've seen talk of it in other threads and thought it may solve my problem. Here's the situation:

Recommended Profile, I sync at 6,200kbps with an SNR of between 4.5 and 6. This is not overly stable with a few drop outs per day. I contacted Adam and they put me on the Resillient profile. Now I sync at about half the original speed (3,200kbps) but SNR has increased to 15-18.

It seems like a profile with an SNR value between these two profiles might give a good mix of speed and stability. Any thoughts? Is there a modem setting that can adjust this instead (Billion 7401VGPM).

Thanks for any advice!! :)

Call Adam and ask for one, they can only be enabled by Adam staff.

Yeah, custom profiles can only be enabled by Adam staff (from experience you have to have a half-decent reason for them to put one on for you though so be prepared to work through it with them).

Spanner82 writes...

Is there a modem setting that can adjust this instead (Billion 7401VGPM).

Have you tried changing your "Coding Gain" within your Billion modem settings? It ranges from Auto(default) then 0(lowest) to 7(highest). 7 will get you the best speed but can also cause more drop-outs. Experiment with that as well if you haven't already. As an example, I used to be able to set to 7 but then got constant drop-outs with it, had to settle with 3 or 4.

Thanks for the response guys. I'll have a play around with the coding gain and see if I can sort something out.

It's probably not a good enough reason for Adam to build a custom profile if I can sync alright on Resilient (albeit at a slower speed).

Appreciate the reply!

Spanner82 writes...

Thanks for the response guys. I'll have a play around with the coding gain and see if I can sort something out.

Yeah like Tex said, lowering your coding gain can really work wonders for a noisy line.

I was having real troubles keeping sync, I was up to about 10 syncs/day which was quite annoying.

At this point the coding gain was set to "Auto".

I progressively dropped the coding gain down and am now sitting at "2" on my Billion 7402G. I still sync around 14mbit a drop of only 1mbit from "Auto" and only re-sync about once every 2 days on average.

IMO: Stability > Speed

:)