Any problems tonight?

[zappaDPJ]

Posting on 3G. I have sync but I'm being routed to BT Wholsale.

[Bill]

Another big spike of lost packets shortly after 2am, but the router not showing a disconnect.

I hate to say it, but a fibre LLU supplier would get serious consideration...


eta- but not TalkTalk, I'm not that unhappy!!!!!

[Bill]

And again:

 May 19 02:37:35  daemon  pppd[2622]: No response to 6 echo-requests
 May 19 02:37:35  daemon  pppd[2622]: Serial link appears to be disconnected.
 May 19 02:37:35  daemon  pppd[2622]: Clear IP addresses.  Connection DOWN.

I know it's not IDNet's fault, but my (premium rate) contract is with them and IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH

Later edit:

  May 19 03:02:11  daemon  pppd[2622]: No response to 6 echo-requests
  May 19 03:02:11  daemon  pppd[2622]: Serial link appears to be disconnected.
  May 19 03:02:11  daemon  pppd[2622]: Clear IP addresses.  Connection DOWN.

I've had enough, I'm off to bed

@ Zap- I hope you delayed your forum update...

[Niall]

I wonder where I posted in my sleepy state last night

My connection was dropping over and over yesterday. All day and night. I've noticed my profile is dropping as a result too. My router is still off after switching it off before going to bed, but I'll have a nose when I get home from work & gym in 12-13 hours time. God it's going to be a long day!

[Lance]

Niall, you've got an issue with sync. It appears all other disconnects last night are ppp only.

[Niall]

Must be local then, as my sisters line has gone to pot completely. Awesome. They saw this happen until the line was at 3mb. When it happened to me before all I saw was my connection degrade. It seems that BT are getting awful around here. Ah well when I get home I'll see if it's still cr*p and email support again. It's 100% not an issue at my end.

[Bill]

From AAISP staus page:

http://status.aa.net.uk/apost.cgi?incident=979

[Bill]

Well, I suppose it's silver lining time... something caused a resync during the night and I came down this morning to a profile down from 35067 to 25815

Didn't think much of that, so rebooted the modem- speedtest.net showed a marked improvement. Had to wait a while for the BT speedtester to let me in again, but it reported that I'm back up to full speed of 38717

Just hope it stays there...

[Rik]

BT are just toying with you, Bill. Wait till tonight. 

[Bill]

Trouble is, I know you're probably right

[Rik]

 

I think they employ someone with a nobble desk, he just chooses a button at random and it takes down a section of the network.

[pctech]

Either that or the engineers at BT's Network Ops get really bored and start playing round with the equipment, like some Russian soldiers did with the circuitry on a nuclear ICBM launcher once apparently which sent it into 'combat mode' and it was a few seconds from firing at us when they managed to stop it,

[pctech]

Niall, you've got an issue with sync. It appears all other disconnects last night are ppp only.

Yep he's got that syncing feeling 

[esh]

So apart from the 21CN-BRAS issue (I'm 20CN) was it confirmed as a BT screw up?

[Niall]

Hope so. Nothing more annoying than trying to load a webpage, or replying as your connection dies

[Glenn]

Looks like a 3rd night of engineering works for me. http://status.zen.co.uk/broadband/maintenance-outage-details.aspx?reference=161092

[Rik]

Look upon it as an investment for the future, Glenn. Your grandchildren will benefit from all this.

[pctech]

We'll have 100 Gig fibre by the time I'm too old to care at this rate,

[gyruss]

Been getting a good number of BT Wholesale messages this evening.  (was happening between 7 and 7.30pm), on OpenDNS at the moment, the idnet dns addresses produced more bt messages for some reason.

[Niall]

Connection still dropping over and over. Profile dropping still, as a result.

Time to email support

[Niall]

Typical, my connection reset just before I posted that and my profile increased. Since I sent the email my line hasn't dropped at all. Hmm.

[gyruss]

Its... *dramatic fanfare*  a conspiracy!!!!

[Niall]

Ah well, I woke up earlier, checked the router and there was no connection. It was listing a hell of a lot of IPs as [DOS] attacks though. Some of which I recognise to be ID net IPs, so I'm assuming that's just the router being paranoid. No idea why there were loads of other IPs listed as the router wasn't even connected to anything overnight.

I'll just have to wait for support to check what's going on.

[Niall]

Now my router is being strange. I noticed the time was wrong before, by an hour. So I've checked the time settings section and it seems that you can't actually manually change it, just request the time to be updated. Anyway, I've done that now and now I've noticed an oddity in the logs:

Fri, 2011-05-20 07:22:20 - Send out NTP request to time-g.netgear.com
Fri, 2011-05-20 07:22:20 - Receive NTP Reply from time-g.netgear.com
Fri, 2011-05-20 07:04:45 - Router start up
Fri, 2011-05-20 07:32:44 - Administrator login successful - IP:192.168.0.2

Why has it JUST recorded that the router rebooted at 7:04 when it's now 7:32 (or was)? I did a couple of tracerts from cmd, and viewed a few webpages etc, and the router doesn't seem to have logged those either.

Now I'm wondering if the router itself is at fault for all of this. And no, I don't have another router to test as I binned my old knackered one! It'd be a huge coincidence though that BT do work in this area, then my connection repeatedly falls over, almost immediately after their announced work in the area next to mine. The same day in fact, that the 01977 code had work listed when I'm in the 01978 area.

Hmm, well it seems the router is fine. There must just be a delay in the router reporting things. I just started a random download to see if the line drops or not, and it's logging that fine, and downloading fine. This is what it was like last night when I thought it was fine too. Maybe there was more BT work overnight or something?

[Glenn]

01977 is a Pontefract code, so I doubt that work in West Yorkshire would be have an effect.