Anyone else on the west side on the Chapel Hill exchange on DSL (I'm with node) having any issues? I'm getting continually dropped and reconnected every couple minutes at the moment. This has been a long-standing problem I've had where I drop on and drop off for 1-6 hours, then a couple weeks will go by without problems, then it'll happen again.

The tech guys haven't offered any insight as to why its happening, other than it looks to their end like my modem is requesting hangup. This modem has been rock solid for like 3 years, and 90% of the time it has no problems - so it just seems weird that it'd be my end that's the problem when nothing has changed (unless the modem has started actually failing).

I'm wondering if its an exchange problem so was wondering if anyone else is having similar issues?

frequent dropouts yesterday Redbank Plains

(unless the modem has started actually failing).

i was thinking the same yesterday. 2day was fine but

AND NO TYPOS IN TITLES! :)

The only weird thing I can find in the modem is that SOMETIMES (not all the time) when it drops out, it looks like the modem has rebooted - there's this line in the systemlog:

SysUpTime: 00:00:00 KERNEL Warm restart

I'm not sure if that is refering to a complete modem OS reboot or something else. I don't know why it would reboot randomly (unless it was hardware problems - and if it was hardware problems, why do I only have this problem intermittently, and why does most of the time the dropouts occur NOT because of this)

I go through the chapel hill exchange and my connection has been rock solid (iinet)

What modem troggles?

this probably wouldn't be an issue if you lived on the northside

yo trog, any idea how ya bro billy went in the uni band comp last nite? or who won?

this probably wouldn't be an issue if you lived on the northside

it would be an unimportant issue, as there are so many other big issues to deal with

speedtouch 530 - on phone to tech support and they just told me modems last 2 years before they have problems (! wtf) - my modem is 3.5 years old

yo trog, any idea how ya bro billy went in the uni band comp last nite? or who won?

trog and bh are brothers?

wtf???

noobsigh

I actually am more inclined to think its my modem now; its been doing more of those random resets so maybe its just toasted. Gonna try and borrow someone else's modem to see if I can reproduce it

Definetly the modem, I've had 2 Speedtouch 530's s*** out. First one just stopped working (flashing red light) and the second would sync at 8Mbit and deliver top speeds but after a few days it'd slowly go down to about 512kbps speed until I powered it off and on again.

Replaced it with a NB1300 and it's been sweet since.

Probably modem. Line faults shouldn't cause a modem to reboot. Well modem or power issue.

hey trog... i used to own a speedtouch, i think it was a 530 like yours.

anywho, the thing started making funny noises and disconnected and reconnected all the time, was very frustrating, i called bigpond lol. they said it was a modem issue.

so i went out and bought a new one(netgear), and it worked alot better.

now i dont get any dropouts, however my net just ceases to load pages and data doesnt transfer, so sometimes i have to switch my modem on and off, to get it going again, i dunno its weird. but thats probably bigpond.

but yeah, speedtouch have issues.

sweet, thanks guys - I've borrowed some other modem from jadzor which I'm gonna give a crack and see how it goes

Any modem recommendations? Just looking at node's modem page and they have a bunch of decent-looking ones, preconfigured to my username and password and everything so I can (theoretically) just plug it in

I have the 624 open networks bought from node, never had a problem

The Billion 7300 is a great modem. It comes highly recommended. We upgraded the 7300 to a Linksys WAG325N which is a good modem too. I can't say that I've noticed much of a difference between the two of them except for wireless performance. Wireless seems to be a bit more stable on this modem with higher signal quality.

+2 for the Billion 7300 - used them at work and they haven't missed a beat.

im billions no1 fan

7300g is good

74xx series is better

wrt54g or an older model dg834g (don't get the newer hardware revision.. it has wireless issues)

netgear (esepecially dg834g) are s***

dont touch them

+1 for linksys.

-10 for linksys

Spook what version of firmware do you reckon for the 7300A? I've been playing around with it every now and then and running the latest version of the 1.35 RC still gives me those ping problems :/

spook, so the Billion 7401VGP-M ($199) at node is prolly a sound choice?

yup troggy, thats a goodun;

good speeds, stable as a house, ull have no dramas with it at all;

reso, im running 1.33 which fixed a few niggly issues i had with the original out of the box bios

what was your problem again? torrents go slow or something?

nah everything goes slow, I know it's that too many connections thing.

Was wondering if a firmware update has fixed it or if I needed to update the firmware and lower the amount of connections in utorrent too, I guess.

With the 7300g I found that with torrents for some reason it just slows the whole connection down. Not sure what causes it as I only have 5 connections to peers and seeds at the time. Seems to happens when a heap of trackers stop responding or it cant work out the domain name of trackers. With newer torrents it seems fine, but for the older ones I had problems. 7401 in my new house has been pretty solid as a rock tho.

$168 at Umart - feel free to wire me the savings if you wish trogj0r

man, i dont get any problems with torrents, and only notice slow down for surfing when im maxing out my upstream

if i throttle back the upstream, i can surf normally with maximum dls happening

you're not just after the XP fix for multiple connections are you?

Sorry for me it isn't so much everything goes slow. More so stuff just doesn't connect, websites time out and pings to game servers jump to anything from 150-2700+

Exact same setup on my dg834v2 atm and no problems, uploading with the same amount of connections and pinging 50 to gamearena.

mmm, tried their forums?

they got a support guy or two that respond to queries reasonably often

maybe its a setting?

tried going back to factory default and setting up again?

i pretty much leave utorrent going 24/7 and bro in law can play wow on it ok most of the time

Yea I'm trawling their forums atm. I'll try a few other firmware releases next time I can be farked.