Had a storm years ago up in Scotland. Was graphing the SNR values from my router and that was dropping hours before any storm showed up (which it did, eventually). Hours before any noticeable change in clouds/overcasting etc. So yes, due to the nature that is DSL broadband, it does tend to be quite sensitive to electomagnetic disturbances in the atmosphere due to storms, so the fact you experienced issues hours afterwards does not surprise me.

Yea seems abit random hows storms can effect it. Guess it depends how close they're. Had one last year where the centre of the storm was really close to my house and only suffered 1 disconnect with that

You never know with lightning. At my previous house we must have been in a storm pathway as we had them frequently. On one occasion our line had a direct hit which fried the cable and actually burnt out the handset of the phone as my wife was using it. I think it was the same storm that also burnt out components in my pc. BT had to replace about a quarter of a mile of cable as a result of the strike.

Edited by oldswan (Tue 05-Apr-16 09:15:15)

This site allows you to track the progress of strikes. Select Europe and enable detectors to demonstrate how far away strikes can have an effect.


Lightning Strike Project

I note that site allows you to go back "in time", so the OP could select around the time of his problems.

Yea can see there were strikes around the time it started but wasnt long. Dunno how long the electromagnetic interference would hang about tho

In reply to a post by bobble_bob:

Edit: Just noticed aswell today a great big hole appeared between my house and the cabinet as there doing electricity works. That hole is now waterlogged due to the storm. Could this be a cause perhaps?

If it's not the storm, or water related then it could be the equipment that's being used by the electricity company.

Back in 2008 I had problems when people were using a mole to put large cables under a local roundabout which is between me and the exchange. The ducting was pretty big, around 30cm diameter or so! I think their compressors etc. caused my issues it all recovered over 8 days once they had stopped using the mole.

Dont think it was any equipment being used as it was happening while there was no workmen on site. Ive set up a BQM anyway and so far so good today. On a dynamic IP so will know if i lose sync from that

Well connection been stable since the lightning, very few errors and no disconnects but noticed when I rebooted my router yesterday afternoon for something that ive not been able to sync as high.

Usually sync between 9300-9800kbps but yesterdays sync at 4pm was 8900kbps. Target SNR and interleaving still the same, so not sure if the damp, wet [censored] weather could have caused the slightly lower sync or not.

Not been at home around midday when apparently that's when you should get the highest sync, so will see at the weekend when im home

Back in the days of dial-up, we could readily detect storms etc on the simple phone line, which were readily traced to storms in the Lake District, about 180 miles away.