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[Entwood]

Is the connection speed now lower?

Looks like it is a tad slower .. down from 3.2 the other day to 2.65

[Vamps]

I wish I knew what the heck you were all talking about.....

[Marks DTM Calib]

Hmmm....the router logs tell you more than you think, it would give us details of what the link is doing and how long its staying up for. We could also see the noise margin via the stats.

I suspect that the local line is not great and its been run with to little noise margin (some ISP's do this to get max bandwidth but it can cause issues on stability). Its a reasonable inference that they might have reset the learning on the line and hence its more stable as its currently running at a lower speed........for now.

[Kevin Wood]

If you're having problems, it's well worth having a look at monitoring what the router is doing. There's almost certainly some monitoring via SYSLOG or SNMP you can enable and you can find free applications that will receive this information from the router and store it. Looking at the logs over a period of a few days will give you a good idea how stable the connection is and it's running at an acceptable noise margin at all times.

[Entwood]

Interestingly, speed this morning is back up to 3.2, and - so far - no drop outs, pages back to loading as they should be, no packet losses in an hour. The only thing I've not yet done is to re-enable the router firewall - had to disable that to run the packet loss tests.

I wonder what they'll say on the "call back" that is booked ..

[Entwood]

Call back was only 2 hours late ...... 

However, according to their tests there is a fault with the line external to the house which has now been passed to BT Openreach, who will be in contact .... nothing else to report ..

[Marks DTM Calib]

Call back was only 2 hours late ...... 

However, according to their tests there is a fault with the line external to the house which has now been passed to BT Openreach, who will be in contact .... nothing else to report ..

dam were good! 

[MaxV6]

Memory issue? Oh yeah?

Yeah, it ran out 

I can remember things for about 5 minutes if it's any help   

[Taxi_Driver]

Call back was only 2 hours late ...... 

However, according to their tests there is a fault with the line external to the house which has now been passed to BT Openreach, who will be in contact .... nothing else to report ..

When BT openreachy bloke turns up.......insist he digs a blooming big hole in the road to fix the wire, instead of taking the easy option of using a spare wire from the cabinet....or else TB wont be happy 

[Taxi_Driver]

BTW is your line speed usually that low 

Even being out in the sticks where you are i would have thought you'd get 6 - 8.

Im on the exchange in the town centre (behind the Wyvern theatre) which is kitted out for 20.

Im quite a way from there and get usually between 12-13 

[TheBoy]

I'm now running a  2 hour monitored test through hostmycalls

http://www.hostmycalls.com/tools/

only been running 5 minutes and it's dropped 20% of packets in that time ..

Needs to be referred to the carrier. 

Bloody Cisco boys. Its called an ISP at the consumer level

[TheBoy]

Memory issue? Oh yeah?

Yeah, it ran out 

I was thinking more of, which plug is which.

Nope, I would have noticed it quicker if it was that (as only 2 people could, and we'd notice). It was the Linux server being a, errr, Linux server.

I suspect its related to the subject matter of one of Symes threads at the time

[TheBoy]

Call back was only 2 hours late ...... 

However, according to their tests there is a fault with the line external to the house which has now been passed to BT Openreach, who will be in contact .... nothing else to report ..

When BT openreachy bloke turns up.......insist he digs a blooming big hole in the road to fix the wire, instead of taking the easy option of using a spare wire from the cabinet....or else TB wont be happy 

Its fair to say, if you're getting an earth or a battery fault, water has ingressed a joint somewhere. Now I'm just the stupid kid from the local comprehensive, as you know, but I reckon any pair swapping bodges will only be temporary

[VXL V6]

I'm now running a  2 hour monitored test through hostmycalls

http://www.hostmycalls.com/tools/

only been running 5 minutes and it's dropped 20% of packets in that time ..

Needs to be referred to the carrier. 

Bloody Cisco boys. Its called an ISP at the consumer level

[VXL V6]

I'm now running a  2 hour monitored test through hostmycalls

http://www.hostmycalls.com/tools/

only been running 5 minutes and it's dropped 20% of packets in that time ..

Needs to be referred to the carrier. 

Bloody Cisco boys. Its called an ISP at the consumer level

Incidently what are these 'consumers' you speak of?