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What is the Westell Modem Browser and how can I interpret its results?

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What is the Westell Modem Browser and how can I interpret its results?

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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: »www.westell.com/images/downloads···stic.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

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