Any problems tonight?

[Rik]

 

[Niall]

Pretty sure the monitor was the source now. 72 hours up and 13k+ profile.

[Rik]

 

[Niall]

Plus, 6 days time I shall be sitting in the Royal Albert Hall, giddy as a school girl

[Rik]

I'll be sitting next to the River Nairn as happy as a lark.

[Niall]

I've got this cr*ppy little free camera bag that came with my 60D so I may take that with me with a single lens. Or the 30D with the nifty 50. Less to lose if I'm mugged. Although I'd probably squash any mugger as I'm back in the gym now Unless they cheat and use strong language and intelligent quips

[Glenn]

I'll be sitting next to the River Nairn as happy as a lark.

Just as well the Nairn isn't in Italy, they used to eat song birds.

[Rik]

[Niall]

Got home from London late this afternoon, and just checked my logs. My internet has been dropping constantly all day. No reason for it at my end now. Everything was switched off, and it's been fine since I moved that old monitor, so I'm now back to having a useless connection with no way to test it other than to buy a router, in the hope that it's at fault. You know, because I'm made of money.

*sigh*

[Niall]

http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/mso.php?id=19126

Just found this that someone else posted a link to on here a couple of weeks ago. I'm sure this matches my problems, which makes me wonder if whatever went pop, went pop again..


Hmm nope, that was 10 days after my problems.

[Bill]

with no way to test it other than to buy a router, in the hope that it's at fault. You know, because I'm made of money.

*sigh*

Didn't IDNet have some facility in the past to lend you a test router in cases like this?

[Lance]

Yep, the customer just covers the postage. To be honest, a test router could be picked up super cheap from eBay anyway.

[Bill]

A fair point, but I know which one I'd have more confidence was in working order when I got it!

[Niall]

Well my router is well and truely knackered I think. Well, I've decided. I couldn't even browse the net when it said I was connected. I've just moved it and it's VERY hot. I've also noticed that the top is bowed out now, so I'm thinking it's overheating and killing itself. Yeah, thassit

Anyway I've bought a Billion router for £120 mentioned further back in this thread. Reviews for EVERY router there is, have people complaining about a problem one way or another with them. The Billion router reviews seem more favourable, with the main problem being peoples inability to port forward or install security packages on their PCs.

I also bought 27" Iiyama PLB2712HDS-B1 Black. Now I'm skint, so nothing else better go wrong as that's all my spending money for the month gone!

Oh I had to get that second battery for the 60D too. The flash & tripod will have to wait for ANOTHER month!

[Niall]

Just had my DPD email to say the monitor is being delivered today. Rather oddly, and a bit annoyingly, it says it'll be delivered between 8am-6pm. Erm, not a great deal of help when you want to go out! Normally their emails come through telling me within the hour when they'll be here. Boo and hiss!

[Gary]

Just had my DPD email to say the monitor is being delivered today. Rather oddly, and a bit annoyingly, it says it'll be delivered between 8am-6pm. Erm, not a great deal of help when you want to go out! Normally their emails come through telling me within the hour when they'll be here. Boo and hiss!

I hate the all day wait 

[Steve]

Perhaps you'll just have to monitor the situation.

[Simon]

[Niall]

Ah well, £120 spent on a router:

Jul 05 18:46:59  daemon  pppd[473]: Clear IP addresses.  Connection DOWN.
  Jul 05 18:46:59  daemon  pppd[473]: Clear IP addresses.
  Jul 05 18:46:59  daemon  pppd[473]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500.
  Jul 05 18:47:05  daemon  pppd[473]: Connection terminated.
  Jul 05 18:47:05  daemon  pppd[473]: Connect time 17.8 minutes.

Still doing exactly the same thing. No idea why it can't change the MTU to 1500 because I could on the netgear. This router seems to try to change it to that figure by itself. Ah well I'll leave it over night, but I tell you what, I'm getting sick to death of this. I've bought two routers in a few months due to this problem, costing me £200 in total. Would have been easier to get an engineer out and risk the call out charge.

[Niall]

Router stats is now running so I'll see what's what. For what it's worth, my connection has dropped 4 times since I last posted. I've even unplugged my fan and moved it to a socket outside the room, and unplugged my old DVD player too. Tomorrow I'll get rid of the old TV and connect Sky to my HDTV so that will be one less thing to rule out. Other than that, EVERYTHING is new in this room now.

Oh and I've moved the router to the windowsill so it's cooler, not that this would have been an issue, but better off safe than sorry.

Other than rewire the house and pay BT £50,000 or more to lay new cable I have no idea what more I can do.

[Niall]

Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:08:26,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:08:41,    Noise Margin= 68, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:08:56,    Noise Margin= 68, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:09:11,    Noise Margin= 61, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:09:26,    Noise Margin= 61, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:09:41,    Noise Margin= 67, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:09:56,    Noise Margin= 54, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:10:11,    Noise Margin= 54, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:10:26,    Noise Margin= 66, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:10:41,    Noise Margin= 68, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:10:56,    Noise Margin= 68, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:11:11,    Noise Margin= 68, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:11:26,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:11:41,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:11:56,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:12:11,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:12:26,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:12:41,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:12:56,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:13:11,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:13:26,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:13:41,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:13:56,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:14:11,    Noise Margin= 69, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:14:26,    Noise Margin= 64, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:14:41,    Noise Margin= 64, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:14:56,    Noise Margin= 64, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:15:11,    Noise Margin= 59, Sync Speed= 9723
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:15:26,    Noise Margin= ., Sync Speed= 0
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:15:41,    Noise Margin= ., Sync Speed= 0
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:15:56,    Noise Margin= ., Sync Speed= 0
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:16:11,    Noise Margin= 62, Sync Speed= 9724
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:16:26,    Noise Margin= 61, Sync Speed= 9724
Tue 05 Jul 2011  20:16:41,    Noise Margin= 61, Sync Speed= 9724

Out of curiosity, how come the netgear router said I had a noise margin of 12 and this Billion 7800N says I have 61? What's that about?

[Steve]

I think it's a firmware bug Niall the decimal point is missing, upgrade to 1.06D

BTW I'm using MTU of 1500 I think , well it  says 1500 . I think I hit apply from the basic menu

[Niall]

I thought it might be because routerstats is showing that when the noise reduces to 50, that's when the line drops. I'm just talking to my mate and he's saying that he had the same problem when there was damp in the box outside. It could well be that, so I think an engineer visit is in order.

[Niall]

New firmware installed.

Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:11:19,    Noise Margin= 6.3, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:11:34,    Noise Margin= 6.2, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:11:49,    Noise Margin= 6.3, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:12:04,    Noise Margin= 6.3, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:12:19,    Noise Margin= 6.2, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:12:34,    Noise Margin= 6.2, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:12:49,    Noise Margin= 6.2, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:13:04,    Noise Margin= 6.2, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:13:19,    Noise Margin= 6.3, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:13:34,    Noise Margin= 6.2, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:13:49,    Noise Margin= 6.2, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:14:04,    Noise Margin= 6.2, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:14:19,    Noise Margin= 6.3, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:14:34,    Noise Margin= 6.2, Sync Speed= 9722
Tue 05 Jul 2011  21:15:03,    Noise Margin= 6.2, Sync Speed= 9722

Now I'm REALLY confused.

[Steve]

I'd rather have noise margin of 12 than 6 at the same sync rate. How long ago did you have a sync rate of 14K ? Your line for whatever reason seems to have degraded and that's completely separate IMO from the bursts of noise that are causing a resync.