How long should an ADSL connection last?

Hi all,

I noticed that I had a really pretty fair connection for maybe 10 days, maybe a bit more or less than 10 days.

In the last 48 hours or so, the upload speed more or less halved. From 1100 or a little more to about 500 or so right now.

Now I am starting to wonder about how long a good connection with ADSL can reasonably be expected to last or remain fairly stable. I understand periodic over night engineering where the ADSL is lost and then returns at or about the same speed as before, and it's not that sort of thing I am referring to.

I might be wholly unrealistic to feel that a month seems a fair amount of time for it to last.

What might average duration look like these days?

Dropping the connection, then reconnecting a little later no longer seems to fix things. 10.2 db on both up and down margin is not a familiar figure either. Maybe 6 for one, and as much as 25 for another is something more familiar, 10.2 is a bit of an anomaly. <shrug>

I have had ADSL connections running for 6 months without an issue.

There are many reasons why one can fail or reset or reboot. Power cut, lightning, external noise, line cut, line works, interference, exchange reset, ...

Sounds like a line fault... Most people turn it on and forget about it. The sync will remain relatively constant with the odd drop once in a while, usually returning back to relatively the same speed once it resyncs.

I have fibre now, but no drops to speak of.

In reply to a post by Curious_Child:

Hi all,

In the last 48 hours or so, the upload speed more or less halved. From 1100 or a little more to about 500 or so right now.

Now I am starting to wonder about how long a good connection with ADSL can reasonably be expected to last or remain fairly stable.

Odds on a box is now full of water after all the rain..

Get a spell of dry weather and watch it go back up again.