Phone issues

As a complete novice I would like to ask what is probably a very simple question. As my broadband and telephone are provided down the same phone line - I am suffering from intermittent/sporadic dropping of phone calls, connection made OK but then complete loss of connection, hang up and dial again and connection made only for it to drop again sometimes.

I haven't noticed any dropping of internet connection, but cant say that it doesn't drop and then reconnect - unless I happen to be on line at the same time, I wouldn't know.

Is there any way of monitoring my connection to see if it is a line problem, such as a ping tester or is there a better way of doing it?
Dave

Many thanks

Firstly, report the voice problem to your supplier. There is likely to be a failing joint at some point. A single leg fault will affect phone colls and cause loss of service however, with ADSL/VDSL it will just cause a significant drop in speed.

At the bottom of the page there is a link to Broadband Ping Monitoring

and if yor modem/router is compatible you can download DSL Stats from http://dslstats.me.uk/ and leave that running on your PC.

Also the modem/router should have a connection status page and these usually tell you how long they have been connected for.

Have you tried using another phone just to rule it out? Its worth also checking the sync speeds on your modem to see if they are at the expected rate (assuming you know what your original speeds were), if there is a physical fault on your phone line these would usually drop quite low if the broadband equipment experiences repeated drop outs. If you can check these two out you can be a bit more confident about where the fault is

& might also give you a count of Loss of Signal Defects during the current session.

Hi, tried most of the things mentioned above, downloaded a pingplotter looked at the router stats when I get a dropped call etc and everything looks OK as far as my internet connection goes - so thanks for all of your advice, but looks as though the issue may be closer to home!

Many thanks