Hmmm

[Glenn]

Around 2 weeks ago I changed my router to a Speedtouch 585v6, it sync's around 400kbs slower than the trusty 2700hgv. The upside is, over the past 9 days my line has not lost sync or ppp rather than every 2 - 3 days.

[kinmel]

What happens if you force the 2700 to sync at the lower rate ?

[Glenn]

I've tried re-syncing in the evenings, I think the longest they have held a stable connection (I have a single and dual SSID), has been about 5 days over the past 2 years. How do I force a lower connection rate?

[kinmel]

I've tried re-syncing in the evenings, I think the longest they have held a stable connection (I have a single and dual SSID), has been about 5 days over the past 2 years. How do I force a lower connection rate?

Use Routerstats Lite to monitor the sync rate, do a re-sync when the noise margin is 5 and it should then sync at 6Db with a lower sync rate, this gives you a bigger margin to avoid the disconnection.  Repeat ad infinitum until stable.

[Glenn]

I have a target margin of 12db on the line, so 5 maybe hard to achive

[Glenn]

I may leave it for another 5 days and see if the target is reduced after 14 days

[Sebby]

Interesting, Glenn. The thing with routers is that although they sync differently, there does seem to be something else that is impacted. As you say, although the 2700 was able to sync higher, this was at the expense of stability. The older AR7-based Netgears did the same, but to a greater extent.

[Tacitus]

........ although the 2700 was able to sync higher, this was at the expense of stability. The older AR7-based Netgears did the same, but to a greater extent.

Oddly enough I've previously used an AR7 based router and found the opposite, the sync tends to be lower and more stable.  This makes me think that a lot of it is down to the firmware.

[Gary]

Oddly enough I've previously used an AR7 based router and found the opposite, the sync tends to be lower and more stable.  This makes me think that a lot of it is down to the firmware.

The AR7 chipset had the potential to drop firmware probably did help, I found the 2700 hgv chipset and the Broadcom to be good, not sure about conexant but the V5 DG834G I had was not that great but it was a pre-production model. as you say it all depends on firmware but Broadcom and others do seem to drop less than the AR7 in my experience, alot depends on your line also.

[Glenn]

My line is poor, the Nm creeps from 59 - 61db from winter to summer

[Glenn]

14 days are up, would I need to resync the PPP on the router to see if the Nm is reduced, or should the Nm drop by itself?

[Gary]

14 days are up, would I need to resync the PPP on the router to see if the Nm is reduced, or should the Nm drop by itself?

I believe you resync your router Glenn to get the nm down

[Lance]

I would leave it an extra day though to be on the safe side!

[Gary]

I would leave it an extra day though to be on the safe side!

Good idea Lance

[Rik]

Yes, the 14 days always seems slightly elastic...

[Sebby]

14 days are up, would I need to resync the PPP on the router to see if the Nm is reduced, or should the Nm drop by itself?

You'll need to force a re-sync, but I agree with Lance, leave it another day.