Outage?

[Rik]

I think we should organise a whip round for their electricity meter, Simon.

[JB]

I think we should organise a whip round for their electricity meter, Simon.

Yes, one lash each for BT.

[Rik]

Do we get to choose whom we lash, JB?

[Aaron]

Bit disappointed with my new Billion 7800N at not being able to reconnect, had to manually reboot it when I woke up at 11 this morning. All it did was spam this in the system log every 5 seconds:

Oct 21 11:30:38  daemon  pppd[1465]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500.
  Oct 21 11:30:38  daemon  pppd[1465]: PPP LCP UP.
  Oct 21 11:30:38  daemon  pppd[1465]: LCP terminated by peer
  Oct 21 11:30:38  daemon  pppd[1465]: LCP terminated by peer
  Oct 21 11:30:38  daemon  pppd[1465]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500.
  Oct 21 11:30:41  daemon  pppd[1465]: Connection terminated.
  Oct 21 11:30:44  daemon  pppd[1465]: PPP: Start to connect ...
  Oct 21 11:30:46  daemon  pppd[1465]: Using interface ppp0_0_38_1
  Oct 21 11:30:46  daemon  pppd[1465]: Connect: ppp_0_0_38_1 <-->
  Oct 21 11:30:46  daemon  pppd[1465]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500.
  Oct 21 11:30:46  daemon  pppd[1465]: PPP LCP UP.
  Oct 21 11:30:46  daemon  pppd[1465]: LCP terminated by peer
  Oct 21 11:30:46  daemon  pppd[1465]: LCP terminated by peer
  Oct 21 11:30:46  daemon  pppd[1465]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500.
  Oct 21 11:30:49  daemon  pppd[1465]: Connection terminated.
  Oct 21 11:30:52  daemon  pppd[1465]: PPP: Start to connect ...
  Oct 21 11:30:53  daemon  pppd[1465]: Using interface ppp0_0_38_1
  Oct 21 11:30:53  daemon  pppd[1465]: Connect: ppp_0_0_38_1 <-->
  Oct 21 11:30:53  daemon  pppd[1465]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500.
  Oct 21 11:30:53  daemon  pppd[1465]: PPP LCP UP.
  Oct 21 11:30:53  daemon  pppd[1465]: LCP terminated by peer
  Oct 21 11:30:53  daemon  pppd[1465]: LCP terminated by peer
  Oct 21 11:30:53  daemon  pppd[1465]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500.
  Oct 21 11:30:56  daemon  pppd[1465]: Connection terminated.
 

This happened 2 months ago as well. Don't know if that MTU thing is interfering with it, but it's set at 1492 in my ADSL settings page.

[Bill]

The Billion doesn't seem as robust as some others when something odd happens on the line- mine said it was reconnected, the correct lights were on and it had all the correct IPv4 addresses but there was no internet connectivity! No IPv6 addresses though.

I didn't need to reboot, just a disconnect/reconnect worked for me.

Also odd- I'm on FTTC and my profile has been down in the low-to-mid 30,000's on interleaved for about a year. After BT got things sorted out, my profile was up to 38,714 and this morning I got fastpath back again.

but

[Niall]

Mine couldn't reconnect after the BT issues the other day either. My line speed increased to its max after I reconnected though, but now it's sh*t again.

[Steve]

Bill,have you tried or heard any reports of the 1.06E RC3 firmware

[Bill]

Bill,have you tried or heard any reports of the 1.06E RC3 firmware

Yes, I've been using it for about 6 weeks now- Billion sent me a copy to see if it had cured that odd 3 1/2 day problem of losing IPv6 (it has), but asked me to keep quiet about it.

It's 1.06e, but I'm not sure whether it's RC3 or maybe an earlier one, that may be the reason for the "keep quiet" request.

There's a bit of (unofficial) chat about it on the Billion forum in the "Test Firmware" section, I'd expect it to be released soon.

[Steve]

Thanks Bill , I did spot it on the forum, IPv6 has been very stable for me lately on 1.06d