2 days ago, TMNET reset my ports and I got SNR margins of 13-10dB, decent enough to get a good connection and do my work. Today, please see below:


You can see that the SNR margin goes back to 5dB, which is not enough (you need 10-12dB) to sustain a stable connection and the connection speed has dropped to 160kbps. I stress again that I have paid for a 512kbps connection.


Looking at my router statistics you can see a huge number of errored packets 175560 to be exact. So I rebooted the router and the SNR margin now goes to 5dB but with a connection speed of 512kbps. However, the connection speed at this point is misleading. What is the use of having a high connection speed but all your data get garbled up and could not get received properly.

I specifically noted the exact time I rebooted my router, and that is at 7:36pm and within 5 minutes, my router has 861 errored packets.

For this posting, I have uploaded the above 3 images more than 10 times, because due to the errornous connection, I have to retry mutiple times. This is what I get for my broadband connection at a "best effort" 512kbps speed. More soon.