My provider, xs4all in the Netherlands, has served me well for 8 years. Since last summer however, after they changed the properties of the connection (it was upgraded to 6112 kb/s down, 832 kb/s up) things got problematic. The first is that the synchronizing of my speedtouch 330 modem (the purple one) takes much longer now. Since the synchronizing takes place during boot time, that generally is not such a big problem. What is a problem is that, especially late at night, the modem goes down frequently. Message like:
Oct 10 23:19:08 linux-31l4 kernel: ATM dev 0: DSL line goes down Oct 10 23:19:08 linux-31l4 kernel: ATM dev 0: ADSL line is down Oct 10 23:19:50 linux-31l4 kernel: ATM dev 0: DSL line goes up Oct 10 23:19:50 linux-31l4 kernel: ATM dev 0: ADSL line is up (6080 kb/s down | 832 kb/s up) pop up every 10 minutes. What is strange is that this behavior does not happen under WindowsXP. Distributions like OpenSuSE however suffer from this problem. Ubuntu 9.04 is even worse. Under Unbuntu, the modem is more busy with synchronizing than with serving my connection. Has anyone ever experienced this problem? Regards, Ed Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:speedtouch-requ...@ml.free.fr?subject=unsubscribe
