On Nov 28, 2013 8:36 PM, "Kent Fredric" <[email protected]> wrote: > However, it does reboot quite regularly, and some of the time it gets > the DSL connection lost with a message "No response from DSL, > retrying", sort of suggesting the medium itself had been entirely > breached temporarily making it get a periodic 100% signal loss.
I've recently been getting remarkably similar behaviour from a totally different setup ... My ADSL2+ in Dunedin (Chorus naked DSL -> Earthlight ISP via Snap) connection has been abysmal in recent months, with frequent outages and repeated reboots of the modem, a reliable Draytek unit from Nicegear. I borrowed the ISPs test modem, which seemed to work just fine, so I eventually bought a new one; but the issue came back as soon as I plugged the new one in ... we talked to the distributor, who used some diagnostics to decide that I was connected directly to an exchange, and recommended a different firmware. This reduced the instability by about half. Eventually I borrowed a low-end DSL modem from a friend, and this has been completely stable & reliable ever since. Some of the outage measurements I collected strongly suggested a time-dependant problem (i.e. it moved with daylight savings), and I suspect the exchange software is causing it. No-one available to a domestic customer is able to diagnose the issue. My only response is to wait for UFB to arrive, and then switch ISP in order to get it. -jim
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