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Thread ID: 114495 2010-12-05 10:05:00 Trouble with Telecom Bozo (8540) PC World Chat
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1159106 2010-12-14 03:07:00 See now if you had remote access to your router, and RDP / VNC / LogMeIn / TeamViewer, then you could have set that up, including port-forwards ... But you don't ;)

Come to think of it you don't even need remote access to your router if you've got remote desktop of some description coz you can view it through that, but still, you know what I mean :D
Chilling_Silence (9)
1159107 2010-12-14 08:28:00 Link Information

Uptime: 0 days, 0:39:02
DSL Type: G.992.5 annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 804 / 13.698
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [kB/kB]: 0,00 / 0,00
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12,5 / 0,0
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 5,0 / 12,0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 16,5 / 14,5
Vendor ID (Local/Remote): TMMB / IKNS
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote): 12 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 1 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote): 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 60 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 574
CRC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 1
HEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 1

And you can see from the uptime value, I am still getting disconnects (since I have not manually rebooted the modem - apparently I have had 8 or so disconnects today - about half of which happened at 9.00AM, when I was at work and my teenage son was still in bed - so no load to speak of).

The usual threshold before they send a technician is 10 a day, but because this has been an ongoing problem....

Technician coming out tomorrow...

Luckily I have the line maintenance fee to cover me for any re-wiring they might need to do...

EDIT: I'm on ADSL2+
johcar (6283)
1159108 2010-12-14 08:59:00 All your SNR / Attenuation seems fine. Whats your router make / model? If it's the TG585 then I'd look at replacing it personally ... Chilling_Silence (9)
1159109 2010-12-14 09:30:00 It's the "awesomeness" (as so eloquently put by wratterus) that is the Thomson - TG585v7

EDIT: Yep - I have an Asus WL-520GU router with a print server built in that I'd like to be able to use (it's been sitting on a shelf for some months now), but since the Thomson also does WiFi, I need to replace it with a plain modem (ADSL2+ capable)
johcar (6283)
1159110 2010-12-14 17:56:00 Time to get a Linksys AM300 or Draytek DV120! Chilling_Silence (9)
1159111 2010-12-14 22:44:00 Ordered a Draytek from Ascent a few minutes ago... johcar (6283)
1159112 2010-12-14 22:57:00 Awesome stuff! Gonna whack anything like Tomato or Gargoyle onto the WL520GU? It's pretty easy to put the DV120 into PPPoA -> PPPoE passthrough mode, and then just have Gargoyle / Tomato handle the authentication, which means it gets the public IP, so you don't have to piss around with double NAT! :) Chilling_Silence (9)
1159113 2010-12-14 23:01:00 :waughh: :waughh: :waughh: :waughh: :waughh:

There may be an email coming your way when install time happens!!
johcar (6283)
1159114 2010-12-14 23:13:00 So whats with mine?
I don't lose connection, but it times out a lot or lags badly. It's done it since I moved into this house on 9th November.

Stats from modem:


Up Stream 796 (Kbps.)

Down Stream 16370 (Kbps.)

Noise Margin 13 dB / 11 dB

Attenuation 3 dB / 1 dB

HEC Error 11

CRC Error 10
pctek (84)
1159115 2010-12-14 23:28:00 would you reccomend the draytek over the netcomm NB6 Chill??? GameJunkie (72)
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