Re: [Hampshire] Routers and dropped connections

A Friend of mine has broadband with Zen, and a wireless router (not
Belkin). His line went through a spate of severe noise and constantly
dropping out, he had a program to monitor the drop-outs etc.

But since the summer started, his line has settled down. He lives near
an industrial estate, and very close to the Bt sub box. He seemed to
think that one of the industrial sites turned their heating off, or some
piece of heavy duty machinery that rattled the BT line.

But the problem with BT copper lines is they get noise interference from
everything (apparently), even having your PC case next to the line box
can cause noise, or even the electrical cables (?????).

Im sure he mentioned that if your connection drops, then its at the
reduced speed for x number of hours. Dont think the router can do much
about getting the speed back up.

Hope that explains a bit, doesnt help much, but adds extra "Maybes" to
the equation.


On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 18:32 +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm not sure it's possible to answer this question definitively but over the
> last fortnight or so I've been having router problems - all sorted by a
> power cycle. Router is a Belkin wireless and ISP is Zen.
>
> Looking in the router logs there doesn't seem to be anything amiss - though
> I confess I don't really know what I'm looking for. However when an ADSL
> connection drops, shouldn't the router bring it back up if it can i.e. spend
> all its time trying to bring up back up after the connection's dropped?
>
> As such, given it's come back up fine after a reboot, I'm inclined to think
> it's the router not the line - am I wrong in this deduction?
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
>
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