[plug] ADSL stressed out?

[Michael Collard]

On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 05:28 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> On 6/9/05, Daniel Pearson <gpearson at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > Hrm.. maybe I've misread/misunderstood - and you guys read something I
> > didn't, but doesn't it say he doesn't have a filter on the phones?
> > 
> > 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.
> > >
> I do have a filter, and we nearly never receive phone calls... it ONLY
> drops when I'm belting the downloads..
> If I have one or two going full pitch then open up a few browsing
> windows that's when it drops.. and I can force it to happen reliably.
> 
> I'll pull out some logs tonight but when I looked last time it didn't
> tell me much :-/

>From what you're saying there is a physical problem of some kind. IIRC
you can telnet into the ST Homes and get all the stats on the line. See
if you can find out what the attenuation and SNR are.

Cheers
Michael