My Actiontec GT701 is a bit short on diagnostic and error reporting, but when I looked at it this AM, I see the error counters are astronomical, and one of them is climbing rapidly during a file transfer.
I see these counters right now:
Near End CRC Errors (I/F) 575/0 Far End CRC ... 10759/0 Near End RS FEC 39168/0 Far End RS FEC 54469597/0
and the "Far End RS FEC" counter is climbing rapidly (55089354 by the time I typed in this line) while the others aren't changing at all.
I now see that the "Far End RS FEC" counter continues to climb even when there's no data traffic.
So, where's the "far end", and what's likely causing the errors?
BTW, I was sold a 7Mb line from Qwest, I'm trained at 6112/896 right now and file transfer is still running at about 5-6Mb/sec from a capable site.