ADSL more and more unstable as the years pass.

Does anyone else find their ADSL is more and more unstable as years
pass? It used to be a few years ago that I could stay connected for
weeks at a time. Now I can't even go for 24 hours! :-( Anyone also work
in other countries? What's the situation like overseas?

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet

 

Not really - my sessions last from weeks to minutes.

What has changed though is that with Orcon now sessions come and go without me
really noticing - even if I am active at the time a session drops. A new
session always starts within a few seconds (according to the router log) and I
always get the same IP address allocated. The VPN client I must use does not
notice what happened.

In contrast with Xtra (up to June last year) I knew about every session failure.
Most times I had to reboot the router (same one as I have now) to get a new
session and the changed IP address stuffed the VPN client.

Crash.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSL

There could be an argument that the phone companies are
not maintaining the phone cabling as well as they did
prior to privatization.

The underground cables carry positive pressure from the
exchange to expel moisture. Dryers too for that pressure.

Lord knows if they have any competent staff left, attending
the exchanges across NZ, to maintain the cable in the ground.
I'm sure it would be impossible to find out.

 

Au contraire, I went through a period about 9 months ago where my connection
would drop off or slow down all the time, several times a day typically, at the
moment it's very solid indeed and my sessions last for well over a week,
easily, unless I disconnect on purpose.

I have a suspicion that the dry weather may have something to do with that and
that things may get worse again once the mud-season comes along. We shall see.

-Peter

 

Oh that is a bunch o

 

Yes, more active connections means more cross talk on the cables which
were never designed to carry the high frequancies that adsl uses.

Get used to it, with unbundling there is no reason for it to be improved.

 

Telecom agrees
http://www.telecom-media.co.nz/resources/adsl-performance-report-250706.pdf

 

i never have a problem... i dont know what all you guys are on about

 

Thats because they are talking about their problems, not yours.

 

Well no.. they asked
Does anyone else find their ADSL is more and more unstable as years
pass?

I responded saying that i never have a problem with my adsl

 

Yep, have noticed in the last 6 months that the downstream attenuation on
my connection has doubled, with a slight loss in (already low) line speed.

 

Never mind.
They told you what they were on about.
If you have a look at the link to the Telecom report you will see why
its going to get worse rather than better once there are ADSL2
connections adding extra crosstalk.

 

Not true.
Push the DSLAMs closer to the user and run fibre back to the exchanges.
Many councils are taking the initiative to run fibre and/or neutral
ducting. You can't do it on a national scale, but a bit of creative
thinking can make massive improvements at a local and regional level.

 

My Dynalink RTA300 goes Weeks/Months without apparent problem.
The Router IP changes frequently, but I don't notice any affect.

Having said that a lot of 'can't get on the internet' calls I get these days
are fixed by rebooting the modem/router (mostly Dlink's)
I have the feeling it allways happens after some early morning 'maintenance'
by Telecom

Best thing I've done lately is to dump Go Large for Adventure, everything
just works now whereas before it was just so erratic....
(& newsgroups work properly now)

Paul.