Ok well I've spent the best part of the morning trying to correct this but to no avail, It did connect once using the btdomain and gave me an IP but then it dropped it's connection and wouldn't connect after that, I've noticed now though that the DSL light will continue to flash a lot, it will stay solid but only for a few mins then it drops and try's to re sync, could this be a line fault or another faulty Router? I'm tempted to go and buy another net gear tomorrow but i suspect if i do i will continue to have this problem.

so you have two routers that won't hold sync, both using the same TI AR7 chipset. If you're going to try anothe rrouter go for a speedtouch as it has a different chipset and decent login so you can see the PPP login process in action.

If the dSL is dropping out then the PPP isn't going to get the chance to negotiate an IP.

Yeah as you said with the net gear it wasn't showing any speeds but the zyxel occasional shows the line sync but the drops it every so often so I'll look into buying a speed touch then and see if that works.

Well i ordered the speed touch 585 will be here tomorrow and I'll give that a bash, but today was the final straw for me and virgin, account canceled and MAC code requested I'm off to find a new supplier.....

Right got the speed touch today and every thing's fine got the DSL light on steady but all i get is a red Internet light and it won't connect was saying disconnected by peer, or idle time out ran setup again and I'm still getting same messages! HELP!!!

I really am going insane now i mean I've spent the guts of

DSL light on steady and reporting a connection speed, a step forward ! You need to look att he log of the connection dialog to see what's going off - post it here for others with speedtouches to compare ?

Ok here are the logs...

Recorded Events
Time Message
00:06:26 (since last boot) FIREWALL event (1 of 13): enabled rules
00:06:26 (since last boot) PPP link down (Internet) [82.26.24.89]
00:05:29 (since last boot) PPP link up (Internet) [82.26.24.89]
00:05:28 (since last boot) PPP CHAP Chap receive success : authentication ok
00:05:26 (since last boot) PPP CHAP Receive challenge (rhost = ERX29.Edinburgh7)
00:05:23 (since last boot) xDSL linestate up (downstream: 6304 kbit/s, upstream: 448 kbit/s; output Power Down: 19.5 dBm, Up: 12.0 dBm; line Attenuation Down: 23.0 dB, Up: 13.0 dB; snr Margin Down: 15.5 dB, Up: 24.0 dB)
00:05:11 (since last boot) CONFIGURATION saved after running Embedded Setup Wizard (user.tpl deduced from pppdefw.tpl.gz)
00:05:10 (since last boot) DHCS server up
00:05:10 (since last boot) FIREWALL event (1 of 26): created rules
00:05:10 (since last boot) FIREWALL level changed to Standard.
00:05:07 (since last boot) WIRELESS automatic channel selection done (channel = 6)
00:05:06 (since last boot) xDSL linestate down
00:05:05 (since last boot) FIREWALL event (1 of 1): enabled rules
00:05:03 (since last boot) DHCS server went down
00:05:03 (since last boot) FIREWALL event (1 of 1): deleted rules
00:05:03 (since last boot) FIREWALL event (1 of 51): modified rules
00:05:01 (since last boot) FIREWALL event (1 of 1): disabled rules


Link Status: Disconnected

Last Error Message: Disconnected because idle timeout reached


Connection Settings


PVC Info (VPI.VCI): 0.38

Type: PPPoA


PPP Settings


Username: ******.******@adsl.virgin.net

Password: ********

Connection Mode: Always-On


TCP/IP Settings


IP Address: -

Default Gateway: -

Primary DNS: -

Secondary DNS: -

In reply to:

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Last Error Message: Disconnected because idle timeout reached

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This is fairly normal, AFAIK.. There should be a setting somewhere (I don't have this model router, so can't say where) which will be set to 5 minutes or something like that. Set it to zero and you should be good to go..

00:06:26 (since last boot) FIREWALL event (1 of 13): enabled rules
00:06:26 (since last boot) PPP link down (Internet) [82.26.24.89]
00:05:29 (since last boot) PPP link up (Internet) [82.26.24.89]
00:05:28 (since last boot) PPP CHAP Chap receive success : authentication ok
00:05:26 (since last boot) PPP CHAP Receive challenge (rhost = ERX29.Edinburgh7)
00:05:23 (since last boot) xDSL linestate up (downstream: 6304 kbit/s, upstream: 448 kbit/s;

So it is getting an IP ? I was expecting to see two CHAP challenges, one from the BT ERX and the second from the ISP, but maybe Virgin are using Datastream and there is only one. On the other hand perhaps the second one timed out after one minute.

Yeah a few times it has connected to the intenet ( the geen light comes on but flickers) but give it a few seconds and it drops out and turns red! As for the time out switch i cant for the life of me find it!