Modem problem?

Someone over on another bbs is reporting that his "FTTC modem seems to have developed a fault, the DSL led flashes around 10 times, pauses a while then repeats"

and continues to do the same after a power-cycle.

Sounds like an error code akin to the BIOS beeps on a PC... anyone got any ideas?

(Google wasn't my friend )

sounds like it can't get a sync.

I lost sync on mine a while back (fault in the cab) but the DSL led didn't flash- it just stayed out.

It sounds like the modem to me.

We've had the same with a few of our customer's modems. Is the modem hot? In both cases we had to arrange an Openreach engineer to install a replacement modem.

Seems there are some not so good batches of modems out there...

It wasn't running hot, just slightly warm as usual.

I'd agree about it probably being the modem- from the chat I had with the engineer when my line went down, the modem is the favourite suspect!

I just wondered if it might have a series of "blink codes" to help with error diagnosis and if so, if anybody knew them.

Hi, it's my modem that Bill is talking about. I turned it off for around 30 minutes earlier, it worked once switched on, but only for approx 5 mins, so I think that confirms it's a modem problem.

Glenn

Aha, I wondered if you had an account on tbb- I know who you are now

Replacement modem fitted and all is well again.