Techy question

[Pushkin]

RF coil - same thing you used to use on car radios?

 

It tends to happen around about 11 to 12 at night - although last night it was a bit earlier - about 10:15ish. Liek I said in a previous post, the nearby radio ham lets us know if there n=might be any problems caused by him bedding in new equipment etc - but usually there is no impact other than on tv or possible radio listening - and only for a short time. He is really good and knows his stuff well.

 

Could it be due to increased users on the line after say the serials, and detective shows end and the 10 o clock news comes on? It's the only thing I can think of to cause the problem. Christmas and New year it was almost impossible around here to get on line after midnight for about an hour or so. - Another high usage time.

 

 

Hope this helps in some way.

 

Pushkin.

[pin]

Busyness or otherwise of the ISP won't cause the line to drop, which is what his happening here. You are loosing ADSL sync, this is something that can only occur if the ISP purposely drop the link, or you suffer some kind of physical issue on the line.

 

You are at the very end of the line, as far as you can be without BT just saying NO outright. This means you will possibly suffer the implications of something nobody else does.

[keston]

we fit rf3 filters which sometimes work ,so you can confirm with me that the pair of wires enters your property and goes straight to the first socket with no spurs off what so=ever and it still drops sink, if so theres not much you can do other than get a openreach engineer out as its a external fault issue.

[Pushkin]

Pin, thought it could be something like that Just one part of the price for staying in such a great little village that enjoys peace and quiet all year round

 

Keston, I've checked, and the wires come into the building and straight into the first box which has a filter fitted to it and then the extension - about 4 metres maximum - goes back out and in the sunlounge to the other socket -to which I which I connect with another filter. This was what I asked the BT guy about when he came out originally and he said the set up was fine and both boxes were getting a good signal with no differential of note between them. As I said earlier, he was surprised as to the actual strength of signal I was getting considering the distance from the exchange itself.

 

Ah well guys, if nothing else - I can look forward to the upgrade of the cables in 2010 (when it is mooted to happen around here).

 

Thanks to both of you for all your time and input on this - good guys

 

Pushkin

[Pushkin]

Update:- no problems tonight at all guys. Whole system was powered down for a good part of the day so that might well be the answer.

 

Regards

 

Pushkin

[pin]

Given that it might be interference you should, as keston correctly points out try and get BT to fit an ADSL faceplate with an RF3 filter

 

This is a little complicated but what it does is measure the SNR (signal to noise ratio) on your line. DSL requires there to be a usable margin, the longer or poorer the line the more noise (and attenuation) there is - this reduces the margin and means there is less "bandwidth" in the signal usable by the DSL connection.

 

 

http://www.kitz.co.uk/routers/DMTv7.htm (if that doesn't work try v8)

http://www.kitz.co.uk/routers/DMTv8.htm

 

It should support your speedtouch, have a crack at the tutorial and leave it connected and logging the SNR, the results of which would be very interesting during a disconnection.

Edited February 29, 2008 by pin

[Pushkin]

WOW! Pin - that is really getting a bit complicated now I'll need to take some time to work through all that - I may be a while in returning to this thread

 

Cheers though

 

Pushkin

[pin]

Try seeing if you can get BT to install a filter for you, if not you could try better shielded cables but if that works or not will depend on where the interference is coming from..

 

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Module...O&U=strat15 is an example, expensive for something that might not fix it but it certainly can't harm.

 

Much better to use a filter to see if it's that. If you've got an old AM radio tune that in to 612Khz (AM) and move it near the modem / router, you should hear the ADSL noise. As an experiment put it so you can hear it and wait for the ADSL to drop - if at the time of the drop you get noises from the radio that coincide then it probably is the radio ham up the road.

 

Radio HAM's are usually electronics guru's too, mention it to him and he might be able to fit a filter for you, best place would be inside the faceplate but that's probably going to upset BT At the very least you can get his number, call him up and have him key up the mic and see if that makes the line drop -

Edited February 29, 2008 by pin

[scout]

Just a quick thought. I was having similar problems recently, spoke to the ISP ( Tiscali ) and was told that they were carrying out remedial work. The work is now completed and every thing is back to it's normal sparkly service.

 

cheers

 

Scout