| What is the
Westell Modem Browser and how can I interpret it's
results? The Westell DGN Icon aka Westell
Modem Browser is a utility that will allow you, an owner
of a product and a subscriber to a service to have some
gauge of the actual performance of your modem.
The utility is downloadable directly from Westell:
»https://www.westell.com/content/downloads/diagnostic.exe however there seem to be
two "packages" of this utility. One of them
will upgrade a modem to FW 06.01.02 which is required.
Along with the firmware and
tranceiver revision, it will display:
a) DSL signal levels
including noise margin, output power and attenuation. It
will also display your "actual" ATM sync level,
ie provisioning.
b) ATM Rx and Tx traffic cell count
including counters for invalid and dropped cells, OAM
pings (control cell count), encapsulation type, AAL PDU
metrics and Ethernet frame statistics.
c) Error counters include
FEC, HEC, CRC, Sync loss, Frame loss and others.
d) It will not display the maximum attainable sync on
your line, only it's current provisioning, however by
looking at the DSL signal levels you can get a rough idea
of how your line stacks up. This utility will not replace
a test kit or an EWL and isn't meant to.
All of the above is loggable to a standard ascii, comma
deliniated log which is easily graphed or further
processed.
Once installed, don't forget to
use ** CTRL-ALT-F7 ** to
reveal several "hidden" tabs, the signal levels
and error counters, so forth.
I strongly suggest reading the following threads before
trying to install or interpret any results from this cool
little program:
Some more material
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»Westell Diags
If you're an owner of one of the current Westell ADSL
models A90/B90-2100 Westell has made the A90/B90-2100
(current models) diagnostic utility at their website here
(*mainly for Verizon users but applicable based:
»https://www.westell.com/pages/verizon.jsp
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