Anyone else's connection down?

j.baker · May 25, 2009, 16:48:18

My connection is still down. Simon from IDNET sent me an email ealier. I was watching a film, and only replied to him about 3pm (ish).

I was asked if I had a spare router

hairyman · May 25, 2009, 20:14:40

Sorry to hear some folk may still be off line after the Kingston Kock up.

My connection came back ( after a fashion) at about 11pm on Sunday night. The ppp session started OK but I promptly got about one disconnect per minute over the next 75 minutes. This fouled up my Ipprofile, its back at 1500kbps I think it was at 4500 or 5500 before. The SNR were all over the place plus I noticed the downstream attenuation was going from its usual 36dB up to 42dB during this phase. Ideas? Anyway I turned the PC and router off overnight and went to bed.

BT Test today
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Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Your DSL connection rate: 6496 kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP profile for your line is - 1500 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 1367 kbps

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Interestingly I dialed 17070 and did a quiet line test during these losses. I could hear no noise almost complete silence. So I suspect line noise is not actually causing my bouncing profile , maybe bb crosstalk on dodgy pairs that are not common twisted sets has been suggested.

Anyway I guess it will take up to a week for the profile to pick up.

I like the sound of j.bakers 80KBps uploads I often only get that on downloads!! Plus he is 2km from the exchange. Maybe I could run my own cable the 400mtrs to my exchange?

Saving grace of the weekend has been the fabulous weather here. Just one short shower ( 10 mins) at lunch today then back to the sunshine. And Jenson Button won again at Monaco.

Many thanks to all for the good work.

Hairyman

Lance · May 25, 2009, 23:15:24

For your SNR, attenuation and sync to be all over the place, it must have been something local to your line or exchange - quite possibly BT work at the exchange. Hopefully as your profile is quite a big jump, you should see the increase in less than 3 days

Sebby · May 25, 2009, 23:41:50

I agree with Lance. The SNRM would not be affected by the Kingston issue.

j.baker · May 26, 2009, 12:42:31

My connection was fixed this afternoon.

BT had a reported fault (today)

http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/mso.php?id=13240

Simon · May 26, 2009, 12:46:10

Glad it's sorted, John.

Rik · May 26, 2009, 12:48:44

I'm curious that it's reported after your connection had gone down, John.

j.baker · May 26, 2009, 12:55:56

QuoteI'm curious that it's reported after your connection had gone down, John.

This happens a lot with my exchange. I bet IDNET did some investigation, and BT discovered a fault.

Rik · May 26, 2009, 12:57:47

It does look a bit that way, doesn't it.

Sebby · May 26, 2009, 13:39:28

Glad it's sorted.

DAB Badboy · May 28, 2009, 08:30:58

Quote from: j.baker on May 26, 2009, 12:42:31
My connection was fixed this afternoon.

BT had a reported fault (today)

http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/mso.php?id=13240

Thanks for that, with a little detective work I *finally* found out what was going on locally here (NOT an IDNet problem I know but all the other web pages that normally list these things were/are particularly quiet on this incident).

Even BT's Freephone ansphone (0800 169 0199) had nothing about it

http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/mso.php?id=13364

Rik · May 28, 2009, 09:02:45

BT seem to have been rather quiet on these issues, possibly because of the weekend staffing?