A transceiver (200, 260) configured to recover within less than 1 millisecond from quality degradation in its operating point, comprising: a receiver analog front end, Rx AFE,, an adaptive module comprising at least one of an adaptive digital equalizer and an adaptive digital canceller, ADEC,, a common mode sensor AFE, CMS-AFE,, a fast-adaptive mode-conversion canceller, FA-MCC,, a slicer, and a retransmission module; wherein the Rx AFE is configured to receive a signal of more than 500 Mbps from a second transceiver over a differential wired communication link, and to feed the ADEC that is configured to generate an equalized signal; the CMS-AFE is configured to sense the common mode signal of the differential wired communication link and to feed the FA-MCC that is configured to generate a compensation signal; wherein the compensation signal is indicative of differential interference caused by mode-conversion of a common mode signal; the slicer is configured to utilize the equalized signal and the compensation signal to generate slicing decisions and slicing errors; wherein the slicing errors are used to adapt the ADEC; shortly after identifying quality degradation in the transceiver's operating point, the transceiver is configured to indicate the second transceiver to reduce the rate of the transmitted data in order to improve detection rate at the transceiver; within less than 1 millisecond from identifying the quality degradation, the transceiver is configured to utilize the improved detection rate to improve the accuracy of the slicing errors, which enables fast adaptation of the ADEC, that improves the quality in the transceiver's operating point to a level that enables the transceiver to indicate the second transceiver to increase the rate; and the retransmission module is configured to utilize retransmission to recover packets that were lost from time of the quality degradation until time of increase of the rate. a receiver analog front end, Rx AFE,, an adaptive module comprising at least one of an adaptive digital equalizer and an adaptive digital canceller, ADEC,, a common mode sensor AFE, CMS-AFE,, a fast-adaptive mode-conversion canceller, FA-MCC,, a slicer, and a retransmission module; wherein the Rx AFE is configured to receive a signal of more than 500 Mbps from a second transceiver over a differential wired communication link, and to feed the ADEC that is configured to generate an equalized signal; the CMS-AFE is configured to sense the common mode signal of the differential wired communication link and to feed the FA-MCC that is configured to generate a compensation signal; wherein the compensation signal is indicative of differential interference caused by mode-conversion of a common mode signal; the slicer is configured to utilize the equalized signal and the compensation signal to generate slicing decisions and slicing errors; wherein the slicing errors are used to adapt the ADEC; shortly after identifying quality degradation in the transceiver's operating point, the transceiver is configured to indicate the second transceiver to reduce the rate of the transmitted data in order to improve detection rate at the transceiver; within less than 1 millisecond from identifying the quality degradation, the transceiver is configured to utilize the improved detection rate to improve the accuracy of the slicing errors, which enables fast adaptation of the ADEC, that improves the quality in the transceiver's operating point to a level that enables the transceiver to indicate the second transceiver to increase the rate; and the retransmission module is configured to utilize retransmission to recover packets that were lost from time of the quality degradation until time of increase of the rate.