[plug] Westnet DSL troubles: probably not linux issue - firmware?

[Adam Ashley]

i hope you've installed the firmware upgrade for the 500, the default one it
comes with is shocking. was always going down on us at work.

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: garry [mailto:garbuck at westnet.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 1 November 2002 4:36 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Westnet DSL troubles: probably not linux issue -
> firmware?
>
>
>
> Craig,
>
> Ive recently started the ADSL with Westnet, and I bought a
> DSL-500 router. I
> can't remember the exact connection time, but I've had a continuous irc
> connection since Wed 16:49, making it just about 48hrs.. I have an IPCop
> firewall (Smoothwall derivative) and debian clients.
>
> I will be putting Debian on as the firewall shortly (Sunday
> maybe) so thatll
> prove if there's an inherent Deb problem. I doubt there is!
>
> I dont know how much of the guts of the 300/500 are shared, but
> mine is fine.
>
> Oh, if it could work, you are welcome to try your modem here to prove it,
> should you wish.
>
> HTH
>
> Garry
>
> >
> > BTW when your connection goes down, does the ADSL LINK light on the
> > modem go out? Ours does usually and sometimes stays out for 5, 10
> > minutes or occasionally up to 2 hours. Not a happy thing, especially
> > since in addition to that we've had 3 Telstra-caused network outages
> > since signing up. Uptimes are from 15 minutes to 14 hours, disconnects
> > randomly distributed across that time frame. If this matches your
> > experience I'd be very interested since you, too, use a DSL-300. It
> > might indicate borked hardware not just crap lines, and if we can
> > identify a systematic problem with that DSL modem p'haps we can _all_
> > get it fixed faster. Or replaced - my Alcatel SpeedTouch at work has
> > _never_ gone down except when Telstra kills the exchange.
>