Anyone lost connection?

[GarryF]

lost mine at 9, came back up and dropped again at 10, this time not coming back up.

I've had one previous drop out back in november, leaving router off for 15 mins cured that, guess I unplug it and go to bed

[vorbei]

Mine's come up again now, hopefully it won't disappear again.  Still no problems with the connection to the exchange, it was just the PPP connection.

[DarkStar]

Just come back to the puter and no connection again, second time today. I switch the computer off overnight but leave the router on, it was out both Saturday and Sunday when I got up. This four drops now and the sync rate has dropped after two of them. Down from 3296 to 2496  
The weekend drops I put down to the houses either side of me trying to outdo each other with their Christmas lights but seems it may have been otherwise.

Ian

[Dopamine]

lost mine at about the same time now my connection profiles droped from 7500kbps to 3500kbps  

Herefordshire

It's highly unlikely that a loss of PPP session will affect your IP profile. It shouldn't really affect your sync at all. If your profile really has dropped, it's indicative of a poor line, or noise somewhere, between you and the exchange.

[DarkStar]

It's highly unlikely that a loss of PPP session will affect your IP profile. It shouldn't really affect your sync at all. If your profile really has dropped, it's indicative of a poor line, or noise somewhere, between you and the exchange.

Yes, damn Christmas lights. My connection had been stable as anything till this last week 

Ian

[LesD]

It shouldn't really affect your sync at all.

Rebooting my router picked up a lower sych, 3072 kbps instead of the daytime usual of greater than 3500 kps,

With BT one strike and you are out without looking I know that equates to an IP Profile of 2500 kbps from previous bitter experience. 

[Matt M]

connection to the exchange has stayed connected only ppp dropped
though my line defiantly slowed down after the disconnect

[Lance]

Welcome to the forum, Matt.

[Dopamine]

connection to the exchange has stayed connected only ppp dropped
though my line defiantly slowed down after the disconnect
i know is shouldent change

Fair enough, but it does seem an extraordinarily instant change in profile. Are you sure it's your profile that's changed, not just your sync? If it's only sync, then you have the chance to retry to sync at at higher speed and save your profile, as BT's systems do usually allow some time before dropping your profile.

I use Routerstats to remotely monitor a friend's unstable connection, which when good syncs at around 2200kbps. Several times a day there will be a burst of noise that drops the connection, which then resyncs at 160kbps, which if left would destroy her profile. Routerstats is programed to force a resync when the noise margin climbs above 20db, and this often takes an hour or more to be reached. Even so, despite frequent drops and low syncs at 160kbps, we've managed to keep her profile at 1750 for the last three months.

It's not as ideal as having a stable line, but utilising Routerstats with its alarm function set to "reboot" can save you many days stuck with a low profile.

[davej99]

I make that 3 interrupts throughout today 15th Dec and about 4 for December to date. I logged 1 in November. Perhaps we will get a report on cause tommorrow.

[Lance]

I'm certainly expecting one. It seems to be a router at fault.

[Simon]

I've asked for one. 

[Lance]

Which is why i'm expecting it!

[Rik]

Having been through the router log, I suffered no loss of connection last night, but I did see a mains surge at the time you're all reporting problems, and I wonder if the two might be related. I do know that Simon D is looking into what happened and will let us know later.

Welcome to the forum, Matt.

[Simon_idnet]

Hi All

One of our pipes into BT suffered a couple of blips last night, we are awaiting a report from BT. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Simon

[Rik]

Thanks, Simon. Perhaps you should move to cigars?

[Inactive]

I was going to suggest a plumber.

Thanks Simon, tho' my connection didn't drop.

[Baz]

seems fast as a fast thing today 

[Rik]

I was going to suggest a plumber.

Or call the fire brigade?

[john]

Or call the fire brigade?

Surely only if the firewall starts to cause a problem 

[Rik]

Or starts to make strange noises during the night.

[Simon_idnet]

The blips the other night were caused by BT performing some maintenance. They had actually notified us but unfortunately we missed it in the blizzard of notices that they continually send to us. Apologies for that. We've asked them, again, to restrict their maintenance periods to after midnight.
S

[Rik]

With our lot, Simon, somewhere between 03:00 and 03:02 should be about right. Thanks for the update. 

[Simon]

Thanks, Simon.