Billion BiPAC 8800AXL R2 - What An Improvement

[Wiggyg32]

Took 6 people to get through to someone who actually knew what they were doing. The reset has now been done I am surprised they can do it. So far nothing has changed but I'll give it a few days

[Grimers]

DLM resets have an instantaneous effect. Please post your line stats.

[Wiggyg32]

Sadly I'm starting to think they didn't do it even though they said they did.

xDSL
Mode VDSL2
Traffic Type PTM
Status Up
Link Power State L0
Downstream Upstream
Line Coding (Trellis) On On
SNR Margin (dB) 10.4 6.2
Attenuation (dB) 20.6 0.0
Output Power (dBm) 12.0 7.4
Attainable Rate (Kbps) 62116 13623
Rate (Kbps) 48998 13374
B (# of bytes in Mux Data Frame) 195 146
M (# of Mux Data Frames in an RS codeword) 1 1
T (# of Mux Data Frames in an OH sub-frame) 0 0
R (# of redundancy bytes in the RS codeword) 10 16
S (# of data symbols over which the RS code word spans) 0.1269 0.3486
L (# of bits transmitted in each data symbol) 12991 3741
D (interleaver depth) 4 4
I (interleaver block size in bytes) 206 163
N (RS codeword size) 206 163
Delay (msec) 0 0
INP (DMT symbol) 51.00 48.00
OH Frames 0 0
OH Frame Errors 1 0
RS Words 3152444712 1151943246
RS Correctable Errors 33482 4915
RS Uncorrectable Errors 0 0
HEC Errors 0 0
OCD Errors 0 0
LCD Errors 0 0
Total Cells 867386881 0
Data Cells 621205240 0
Bit Errors 0 0
Total ES 1 0
Total SES 0 0
Total UAS 29 29


Looks like no change

[Grimers]

Yes, unfortunately they haven't.

[Grimers]

Still no update on this I assume?

Anyway, I've just realised that this router uses a lower quality BDCM chipset than the 8800NL. Can anyone confirm if there are any other Billion routers that use the same or a better BDCM chipset than the 8800NL uses? Thanks!

[billion_fan]

Still no update on this I assume?

Anyway, I've just realised that this router uses a lower quality BDCM chipset than the 8800NL. Can anyone confirm if there are any other Billion routers that use the same or a better BDCM chipset than the 8800NL uses? Thanks!

Only 8900 series BCM 63168 (no update I'm afraid)

[Grimers]

No worries, my Nan has my 8800NL, so I may be able to see if I get better performance with that. Any reason why that chipset wasn't implemented in the 8800AXL R2? Jeez, those in the 8900 series are very pricey!

So, just curious, what is the best chipset that your products use?

[billion_fan]

No worries, my Nan has my 8800NL, so I may be able to see if I get better performance with that. Any reason why that chipset wasn't implemented in the 8800AXL R2? Jeez, those in the 8900 series are very pricey!

So, just curious, what is the best chipset that your products use?

Our head office choices the chipset, we can only sell the products they have on offer, and meet the needs of the UK market.

BCM 63168 is the best we have on offer at the moment.

[Grimers]

Ok, thanks.

[Hack123]

I just ordered this router/modem to replace a failing TP Link W9980, I'm hoping it'll fix my disconnections, the TP Link can't hold an uptime of even 24 hours which is pathetic. Is this model still receiving tech support via firmware? TP Link seem to drop support of their products so damn fast which is one of the reasons I have switched to Billion.