[AusNOG] DSL Line Stats

Jeremy Visser jeremy at visser.name
Wed Oct 1 09:14:57 EST 2014


On 01/10/14 09:00, Ross Wheeler wrote:
>> Usually its the SNR which is the cause (knob to tweak), and the
>> sync speed is the effect.
> 
> I'm possibly arguing semantics here, but without the signal, there
> can be no SNR. So SNR *MUST* be the result rather than the cause.

Advanced ADSL modems have a configuration option called "SNR Margin" (which you can think of as "SNR Margin Target") which tells it what SNR to aim for during negotiation.

Yes, SNR is a result, but Paul was talking about an option that influences said result.

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