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This is the support site for Andrews & Arnold Ltd, a UK Internet provider. Information on these pages is generally for our customers but may be useful to others, enjoy!
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===A note on Tx/Rx download/upload===
[[File:Cqm-key.png|right|frame|Graph Key]]
As stated in the image above, the dark red is customer uploading, and the darker green is customer downloading. The key on th right does label these as Red=rx Green=tx. As the graph is created at the AAISP side, the Tx/Rx is in relation to AAISP,
The colours may vary and we even allow users to configure colours individually (useful for people with colour blindness, etc.). It is also possible for us to show graphs with only some of the fields which can make some information clearer.
===Pins===
|Purple on the graph is off line, and this can be short blips if a line loses sync or longer. Notes (pins) are often added to graphs to explain why a line is off line if we know, especially when we are investigating a fault. The notes on this graph told when the BT engineer arrived and left.
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|'''Regular drops repeating every day'''
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===I pay for usage - what is this monitoring costing me?===
The usage based tariffs are metered based on IP traffic. They do not include LCP traffic at all, so these LCP echos are not costing you anything. They do use some of your bandwidth. One ATM cell (53 bytes) is sent each second. On an 8M line this is 0.005% of your downlink bandwidth. Even with limited uplink such as
===I have a firewall - will this stop the graphs working?===
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