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- From: ddhyett@jord.jpl.nasa.gov (Denny Hyett)
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- Subject: Re: What modem has best line diagnostics?
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 01:13:52 -0800
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- In article <AA8W7An0O8@infsviaz.msk.su>
- "G. Dragon" <Vadim@infsviaz.msk.su> writes:
-
- >If you are really interested in evaluating lines' quality,
- >you may try Motorola 326x Series modems. From their LCD monitor
- >you can find out phase jitter, phase roll, ..., receive level,
- >number of retrains, signal to noise ratio, signal quality and
- >error probability.
-
- Best part of a LCD monitor IMO. Zyxel's older LCD modems have most of
- this data. Phase roll and error probability are not reported
- though. Haven't explored Mototrola's LCD offering.
-
- >In your case LCD is highly recommended, because it'll let you
- >see how all these parameters are changing. If you simply use
- >command mode (with the help of "+++" sequence), you will
- >find out only what the line quality was when you issued
- >AT-request. So, if line problems appear from time to time,
- >only permanent control can tell you how frequently they happen.
- >G. Dragon
-
- But, you cannot constantly watch an LCD display. Although the older
- Zyxel 1496s+ LCD 14.4 models are the only Zyxels with a similar LCD
- diag output, this one and the newer 2864 share the capability of
- *continually* outputting (~2 lines of data per second) a diag status
- while in the command mode. Granted you can't do anything else during
- that time (being in command mode and spitting out data), but being
- able to capture that data in your telcom program until the failure
- occurs is a good diagnostic capability. Too bad Zyxel doesn't have an
- entry for the actual real time along with this data. After hours of
- grabbing this data, you have megabytes of diagnostic data that can
- only be analyzed by visually looking through all of it to find
- problems. There is a summary available of that data, but sometimes the
- repetitive sampled data holds clues to what is wrong.
-
- Do the Motorola's have a mode that you can continuously output this
- diag data to your capture buffer or are you left to having to witness
- the problems on the LCD display? I keep the modem connected for
- continuous testing throughout the night and am able to catch the
- data prior to disconnects. Of course, if I had a decent phone line all
- these features would go unused.
-
- Denny Hyett
-
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- Denman (Denny) Hyett
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