Sweet modem buggery

[Headbanger]

This is wrong.

It's an analog signal from the DSLAM to your house. Strictly speaking it's a DSU inside and not a modem, but it amounts to the same thing. Yes the signal is transmitting digital data, but it's an analog signal.

Further, yes, fuel injection carbs exist also. They're also a hybrid, much like ADSL.

Get out of my argument, You fucker.

[oneofsix]

Ignorance doesn't turn bullishit into fact, a modem is a device that takes an anologe signal and delivers it to a digital device.

Calling your adsl router a modem makes no more sense then referring to your bicycle as a horse.

Sorry headbanger but you are wrong. Often bullshit is turned into fact by common usage even though it is technically incorrect. Also it is not a router, your PC doesn't talk ADSL it talks ethernet and IP which has to be converted to ADSL for the line.

[imdying]

Hey it's not my fault you can't share a digital and analog signal on the same line!

[Gremlin]

Right now... the only thing I have connected is the phone in the kitchen (through a new filter) and the modem (through a phone/adsl splitter filter but fax unplugged from it)

Try different filters, don't just trust it because it's new. When fault finding that isn't proving easy you have to start from the bottom, assume nothing works until proven otherwise (through testing).

Random one I can remember we had, was that when a client logged into skype on their laptop at home (connected to internet fine, fully functional before login), the internet connection dropped. Ended up being the filter...

[Headbanger]

Sorry headbanger but you are wrong. .

I agree, and anyone who doesn't be fucked.






Think I may lose a few layers of skin on this one.

[imdying]

I had a similar problem when I moved into my current house - modem disconnects, crackly lines.
I traced it to the point inside the roof cavity where the cable from the street was connected to my house wiring. The connection was a terminal block, and the street wiring had verdigris on the conductors. I cleaned them up with sandpaper and some petroleum jelly.
I've not had any more problems since (5years now).

This isn't unusual, I'd ferret around under the house and find the connection to your master socket from the road and check it.

[The Lone Rider]

Ok, right now I have the modem going directly into the wall in my office (no filter). Everything else in the house is disconnected.

I am currently online, and the gf's laptop disconnected the modem when she clicked to log on the wifi, but modem has reconnected and so far has stayed connected.


Will moniter during the day as this would suggest the socket in the office isn't the problem.

Give it maybe 10 hours, then I'll connect in the same fashion, to the socket in the kitchen and see if it works.

[oneofsix]

Ok, right now I have the modem going directly into the wall in my office (no filter). Everything else in the house is disconnected.

I am currently online, and the gf's laptop disconnected the modem when she clicked to log on the wifi, but modem has reconnected and so far has stayed connected.

The ADSL dropped when your gf started a wifi session to the modem? That sounds strange. Her wifi session would not cause any extra traffic out the ADSL interface but would cause extra processing within the modem to authenticate her connection to the modem. Is the modem running hot or anything that could be affecting its cpu?
Actually did the ADSL drop or did the modem drop your Ethernet session but not the ADSL? If it didn't drop the ADSL then I would doubt it is a line issue.

[slofox]

yea but did it drive???

Nah - didn't have the proper licence, it reckoned...

[The Lone Rider]

The ADSL dropped when your gf started a wifi session to the modem? That sounds strange. Her wifi session would not cause any extra traffic out the ADSL interface but would cause extra processing within the modem to authenticate her connection to the modem. Is the modem running hot or anything that could be affecting its cpu?
Actually did the ADSL drop or did the modem drop your Ethernet session but not the ADSL? If it didn't drop the ADSL then I would doubt it is a line issue.

There are two lights - one labeled DSL and the other labeled Internet.

The "Internet" light went out.

Then DSL flickered for awhile, then Internet light went back on.


As of the last message I've written, the Internet light went Red, then out. In waiting a little while, it did not go back to a solid or flickering Green on the Internet light. I had to go out and get my daughter from school, so I don't know what it did after that.

Now we're home, DSL and Internet are both solid Green. Occasional flicker in the Internet light.

We have two computers cabled to the modem that are working, and two laptops currently connected.


Still plugged into the office with no filter, and everything else in the house is disconnected.

[The Lone Rider]

And just now the Internet light went off, then flashed couple of times, then went red.... (couldnt get online)


And now solid green

[The Lone Rider]

And just logged onto WiFi with one of my laptops and the Internet light went out

Then it flickered, went solid.

Then it flickered, went solid, and connected long enough to load this reply (but not post it).


Then the DSL and Internet light both went out and I'm currently waiting for them to go back on.




DSL is solid green now
Internet light is solid red


Now solid green, occasional flicker.




Seems it must be the modem?



Edit- Internet light died again, then flickered again and now I can connect and make an edit...

[neels]

Sounds like a wonky connection somewhere, had this one a while back ourselves. Took fooking ages to get telecom to go out and find it, they wanted to come and check the wiring in our house first (and charge us for it) before they'd consider looking at if there was a fault with their 50 year old cables under the ground. It was.

On another front, I just bought a new cordless phone which is wifi friendly, as it doesn't run on the 2.4Ghz that wifi also runs on....

[iYRe]

And just logged onto WiFi with one of my laptops and the Internet light went out

Then it flickered, went solid.

Then it flickered, went solid, and connected long enough to load this reply (but not post it).


Then the DSL and Internet light both went out and I'm currently waiting for them to go back on.




DSL is solid green now
Internet light is solid red


Now solid green, occasional flicker.




Seems it must be the modem?



Edit- Internet light died again, then flickered again and now I can connect and make an edit...

Wireless is a red herring... it might be a sign of a faulty router, but your symptoms suggest the line is rooted. Call the phone company and get them to fix it.

[The Lone Rider]

as it doesn't run on the 2.4Ghz that wifi also runs on....

Ah.. that's also something I should keep in mind.


I have now unplugged from the office and have the same 6m cable running down the hall to the kitchen plug with no filter.

As I write this, the Internet light has gone blank.

And has just turned red.

GF reports from the dining room her laptop can't connect now.


Green flicker on the Internet now.


Internet is back again... I can click "Submit Reply" and have it send now.

I suppose one thing I could do is unplug the modem and plug a hardwired phone and see if I'm getting static over the lines from different plugs.