Hi Tom,
I gather you have considered asking your ISP and/or BT to perform line
tests from outside?
Second: this is a old device with end of life in 2014. Have you
considered recycling it? I've seen my fair share of access devices fail
over the years due to capacitor & resistor tolerance problems which I
wasted time on because I thought there was a config problem of some
sort. CISCO ain't no longer bomb-proof US made AGS+
Best,
Olivier
On 15/05/2022 15:21, Tom Storey wrote:
Hi Chris,
Been way too long for me as well with this kind of stuff. :-)
No outages that I am aware of, and as far as I know nothing has been
swapped in the cabinet - but I dont exactly keep a daily record of
activity around it. There has been cable pulling in nearby streets in
recent weeks, although my dropouts seemed to coincide more so with
some tiling work that I had done. The old socket and wiring was
sitting on the floor of the utility cupboard, and was moved out of the
way, but nothing appears to be damaged in any way, so may just be
coincidental.
Replacing the socket had been on my list of things to do for a long
time, so I finally got around to that but even removing all of the old
wiring and terminal blocks and having the lead in cable terminate
directly on the new socket hasnt helped. Things have been much more
stable with the HG612, but I still had a dropout overnight.
Looks like Im already using the latest and greatest VDSL firmware too.
Doh.
Tom
On Sun, 15 May 2022 at 11:40, Chris Russell <cruse1977...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Wonder if anyone has a golden config they could share for a
Cisco 887VA hooked up to a BT line - I guess what is referred
to as "Fibre". Zen is the retailer.
Up until about a week ago mine had been running rock solid,
nary a dropout to be known. Now it seems it cant hold a
connection for more than a couple of hours.
Master socket was replaced (or rather, installed) with one
that has a filter faceplate, because the old incoming wiring
was quite janky using screw terminals and all.
Below is a snippet of my config for reference, any pointers
would be appreciated to restore my once rock solid internet
without needing to daisy chain devices.
Been a while but from memory, config looks ok. Was there any
outages and possible DSLAM change ? there used to be
weird incompatibility with some Cisco DSL* interfaces whereas you
had to update the firmware - checking latest might not hurt ?
Chris
