da-geezer
30-10-2005, 11:59 PM
Right then boys, prepare for a long post of ADSL love.
In the late evening or early hours of the morning, my ADSL connection drops out. It only tend to occur between the times of 10pm and 3am. It happened around twenty minutes ago, when I was happily playing an Atari emulation with an IRC program running in the background, when the following happens:
http://www.id-vault.net/hosted/weebl/strangenetworkth.jpg (http://www.id-vault.net/hosted/weebl/strangenetwork.jpg)
[click for big, 208kb]
The connection drops, which mIRC unhelpfully reports as:
[23:30] * [10053] Software caused connection abort
As you can see in the bottom right, there's a balloon telling me there is limited or no connectivity, this alternates between that and "a local network cable is unplugged". At this point, all the telephones in the house ring for a short period of time, before all falls silent and the network connections dialog returns to normal which looks like the following:
http://www.id-vault.net/hosted/weebl/oknetwork.jpg
The top connectoid is from a time when I used a SpeedTouch USB device to connect to the internet, it is no longer used. I now use an Inventel DW200 wireless router (http://www.inventel.com/en/product/datasheet/10/_Inventel_DW_200_WiFi_Wireless_ADSL_modem_router) commonly known as a Wanadoo Livebox, with a D-Link 530TX 10/100 ethernet network adapter, which hasn't given me any grief over the past two months. I'm using the Wanadoo 2mbps ADSL service, the router is connected to the filter via a standard RJ11 cable, and the router is connected to the NIC using standard RJ45 cable.
Here's what I've done so far:
Changed the filters to eliminate the possibility of a knackered filter
Ensured all the wires are connected properly
Checked the point-to-point distance between my home and the exchange - 993 metres is well inside 2mbps service limits
Ensured there is no extension line between the router and the wall socket
Connected it to the BT master socket in the house
What I haven't done, and will do in due course:
Get Wanadoo to perform a woosh test on the line, see if there's an issue with the SP or BT network.
Investigate whether Sky's "phone-home" shiznit is killing the connection. I've only just had it recently installed.
See if Wanadoo have deployed any automatic updates to the liveboxes.
Seen if the total REN value of all the devices connected to the telephone line exceeds the maximum REN value for the telephone infrastructure.
Reconnected the old USB modem to eliminate the router as the cause.
So, given all that shit, can any of you think what would cause every device connected to the telephone line to suddenly (and noisily) drop out, and start working again?
Cheers!
In the late evening or early hours of the morning, my ADSL connection drops out. It only tend to occur between the times of 10pm and 3am. It happened around twenty minutes ago, when I was happily playing an Atari emulation with an IRC program running in the background, when the following happens:
http://www.id-vault.net/hosted/weebl/strangenetworkth.jpg (http://www.id-vault.net/hosted/weebl/strangenetwork.jpg)
[click for big, 208kb]
The connection drops, which mIRC unhelpfully reports as:
[23:30] * [10053] Software caused connection abort
As you can see in the bottom right, there's a balloon telling me there is limited or no connectivity, this alternates between that and "a local network cable is unplugged". At this point, all the telephones in the house ring for a short period of time, before all falls silent and the network connections dialog returns to normal which looks like the following:
http://www.id-vault.net/hosted/weebl/oknetwork.jpg
The top connectoid is from a time when I used a SpeedTouch USB device to connect to the internet, it is no longer used. I now use an Inventel DW200 wireless router (http://www.inventel.com/en/product/datasheet/10/_Inventel_DW_200_WiFi_Wireless_ADSL_modem_router) commonly known as a Wanadoo Livebox, with a D-Link 530TX 10/100 ethernet network adapter, which hasn't given me any grief over the past two months. I'm using the Wanadoo 2mbps ADSL service, the router is connected to the filter via a standard RJ11 cable, and the router is connected to the NIC using standard RJ45 cable.
Here's what I've done so far:
Changed the filters to eliminate the possibility of a knackered filter
Ensured all the wires are connected properly
Checked the point-to-point distance between my home and the exchange - 993 metres is well inside 2mbps service limits
Ensured there is no extension line between the router and the wall socket
Connected it to the BT master socket in the house
What I haven't done, and will do in due course:
Get Wanadoo to perform a woosh test on the line, see if there's an issue with the SP or BT network.
Investigate whether Sky's "phone-home" shiznit is killing the connection. I've only just had it recently installed.
See if Wanadoo have deployed any automatic updates to the liveboxes.
Seen if the total REN value of all the devices connected to the telephone line exceeds the maximum REN value for the telephone infrastructure.
Reconnected the old USB modem to eliminate the router as the cause.
So, given all that shit, can any of you think what would cause every device connected to the telephone line to suddenly (and noisily) drop out, and start working again?
Cheers!