Understanding noise margin, attention etc

[ajh79]

Can anyone help me understand if the stats reported by my HH5 are OK?

My cabinet is a 2 minute walk away so I am very close to it.

I always read how the noise margin should be 6db but mine is massively higher. Is my close proximity to the cabinet the reason?

6. Data rate: 9999 / 54935
7. Maximum data rate: 29552 / 124964
8. Noise margin: 22.5 / 25.4
9. Line attenuation: 11.8 / 11.1
10. Signal attenuation: 11.9 / 11.2

If anyone can provide a dumbed down explanation to lines 8, 9, and 10 then that would be appreciated.

[Webby]

A higher noise margin is a good thing when you're close to the source of the signal

As you're very close, the max speed your line could potentially support is 124mbps. As you're on Infinity 1, this is capped at 55meg. This means that your line can afford to have a huge noise margin, offering more "protection" against noise events.

6db is the target margin as below this, lines can become unstable.

[Keith_Beddoe]

Because you are on Infinity 1, your connection speed is being restricted to about 55Mbs. The maximum possible rate is showing as about 124Mbs, so there is a large margin of unused bandwidth, hence the large noise margin.

If you upgraded to Infinity 2, your connection speed would be 80Mbs, but there would still be plenty of margin.

[ajh79 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the explanation guys.