Amazing what seemingly innocuous electrical items can cause problems!

Guess I won't bin his grinder now!

In reply to a post by TrishaH:

As you can see, it gave up this morning, and hopefully it's fixed now

Makes my reply to Azzaka look a little premature, .

Edited by RobertoS (Thu 10-Jan-13 17:36:00)

No, not at all - you said it how it was: OK ...which is as it was last week just about.

Seems any problems I've had were likely down to the DLM 'fixing' something that wasn't particularly broken last November - which is what a number of you correctly suspected: noise margin.

It seems happy with itself now anyway: SNR Margin(Upstream) 4.7
SNR Margin(Downstream) 5.2

Hopefully, all will be well now.

Hey!

Have you looked at your BQM? Look at the latency!

Ahh ..it's good to see it back to 'normal'

ADSL dropped briefly at 12.35pm this afternoon (12th) - when I checked, the latency had gone back up again! It also synced slightly differently, but not much.

I asked ISP if the DLM had put it back on interleaved, and he said it didn't appear so.
He set up something called a ping monitor and said to call back on Monday to see if they saw any reason.

SNR seems to be still OK - router currently at 2am:
Upstream 1091
Downstream 8317
SNR Margin(Upstream) 6.3
SNR Margin(Downstream) 5.1

So, I'll see what's said on Monday.

The BQM showed a steady connection with very small blue spikes and no packet loss for two days.
I did however have the problems with emails downloading into Outlook in a timely fashion for those two days. (Had this last summer for a time), plus some websites hesitated to load.

Spoke to ISP last night and they agreed that despite the latency going back up on Saturday after it lost sync, all seemed well.
I again mentioned that I'd thought interleaving had been reintroduced.
This morning, most of the BQM was black, but activity since 9.30am shows packet loss and a bit more spikiness on the average latency.

I just checked the line data, and it's been updated since yesterday, and see I was right about why the latency went back up on Saturday - the interleaving did come back on!

NM Reset Run Mode Run Mode Change

N Interleaved Y Auto 12-Jan-2013 12:36
N Fast N Auto 10-Jan-2013 15:03
Y Fast Y Auto 10-Jan-2013 15:03
N Interleaved N Auto 07-Nov-2012 08:06
Y Interleaved N Auto 07-Nov-2012 08:06
N Interleaved N Auto 03-Nov-2012 09:27
N Interleaved Y Auto 03-Nov-2012 09:27
N Fast N Auto 13-Jun-2012 10:38
N Fast Y Auto 13-Jun-2012 10:38
N Interleaved N Auto 08-Jun-2012 07:37
N Interleaved Y Auto 08-Jun-2012 07:37
N Fast N Auto 17-Nov-2011 00:00

I know these aren't big problems, but until June I had a decent connection with no problems of slow downloading emails and web pages, and was always on 'Fast' Run mode.

Your black was because the BQM was broken. So that's nothing to worry about .

Edited by RobertoS (Tue 15-Jan-13 17:04:31)