A device and method of high-speed transmission is disclosed. The method includes computing a signal quality of a received signal, the received signal being transmitted with a modulation order required by a default transmission modulation format. The signal quality is compared with a signal quality threshold required of the default transmission modulation format. If the signal quality is below the signal quality threshold, an indication of a level of signal quality failure is provided to a transmitter. The transmitter sets a number of un-coded bits within the transmission signal based upon the level of signal quality failure.