- Joined
- Wednesday October 7, 2009
And is anyone having random connection problems, dropouts, etc at the moment, or is my modem router about to cark on me?
cheese_dave said:Tell me about it. It's so random though. The phone line's fine I'm sure.Check the logs and see if it's resyncs or PPP drops - obviously if it's PPP drops then a new modem won't make a blind bit of difference. Wet & windy weather often exposes deficiencies in the line (it's how my mate's drop from 8M to 135k started in July - and took until late September to get BT to rectify it after involving OFCOM - it was diagnosed by me remotely but BT India decided to send a "boy with a laptop" instead - eventually the BT tech turned up scanned the line visually as I did and spotted the insulation hanging off).
cheese_dave said:I've had things like this in the past, and it's generally been either because Pipex are fannying around with something, or last time it was cos my modem was knackered. For the price I'll order a new modem anyway, good to have a spare, dunno what I would do without the interweb these days - how could I order more shaving stuff???