[plug] ADSL stressed out?

[Greg]

Shannon Carver wrote:

> Just thought I'd add, that when I first signed up with Bigpond ADSL 
> (Going back, a good 5 years ago now)  I often had a similar problem 
> with my Alcatel Speedtouch.  Telstra described the problem as a full 
> pipe, something shits itself, and needs to be reset to gain connection 
> again.  It sounded like a load of shit to me, and at the end of my 
> contract period, I swapped straight to Netspace, and was happy for 
> long after, without the drop out problem.
>
> However, this could be a problem, affecting ADSL users on 
> Speedtouch's?  Especially as I imagine a high load 512/512 connection 
> may put a fair amount of stress on the old hardware... Naaaah :P
>
>
>
> Kai wrote:
>
>> Phillip wrote:
>>
>>> My adsl only cuts out with certain phonecalls, no idea why. Im
>>> guessing that signal strength varies throughout the day, and picking
>>> up the phone is just enough to trigger the adsl to cut off? This might
>>> not be the same reason your having though. And I don't even have a
>>> filter on the phones.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/9/05, Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:55, Michael Collard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 06:09 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Recently I've been noticing that when I put some very heavy load 
>>>>>> on my
>>>>>> ADSL (512/512 with westnet) it drops my connection and after a few
>>>>>> seconds reconnects..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any idea's what it might be.. or if there is anything I could do 
>>>>>> about it?
>>>>>> The modem is an old "Speed Touch HOME" and the router is a 
>>>>>> ClarkConnect
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it dropping sync? You connecting with a linux box?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And do you have any network monitoring logs? ;)
>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Michael Collard
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> Are you using a cordless phone ? do you have a long extension cord on 
>> your phone(s) ? do you have any devices that high initial surge 
>> currents on them (like fluoro lights) near the ADSL line/phone line ? 
>> no disrespect intended in the next question but is your ADSL filter 
>> plugged into the wall the right way ?
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the speedtouch are a great modem , it is unfortunate they do not have 
any diagnostics available via the web inteface. But there is always 
nubzalcatool  http://www.nubz.org/alcatool/Home.html  . This brilliant 
piece of software turns the alcatel modem into a handy adsl test device 
with graphical output  frequency  response. ( note some this only works 
on some versions).

ps if  the filtering is correct you should see no difference to the 
attentuation or signal to noise ratio when operating a handset.

Greg