No or limited connection

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Thumper · #1 Post by **Thumper** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:40 pm

Help wanted Geeks,

Why do I get repeated problems with my broadband connection? works for days and then starts playing up, sometimes a simple re-boot or disconnection and reconnection of power to my router will sort it, other times it just won't play, I come back hours later no problems, what gives?

Often I have NO or limited connection messages when I run a test, is it my phone line my isp or my PC

Samray · #2 Post by **Samray** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:40 pm

Is it a wired or wireless connection?

Thumper · #3 Post by **Thumper** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:54 pm

No hard wire adsl router, It may be my imagination but it seems worse in wet weather

Samray · #4 Post by **Samray** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:19 pm

I asked cos I have a similar prob and it had been suggested that mebbe I was getting some rogue interference from summat like the central heating firing up, or next doors tele firing up. (Mine often happens the same time of day)

Personally I think they slam the door too hard when they change shift at the exchange.

BT have checked the line for faults twice now.

Firestarter · #5 Post by **Firestarter** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:37 pm

Samray, our TV sender (allows you to send a signal through the house, say from a DVD player or digibox, to a TV in a different room) interfered with the connection between wireless card and router, don't know if this might be to do with your problem?

Thumper, sorry, can't make any suggestions other than try one thing at a time - see if you can get on the ISP's service history (some of them have a webpage of service faults so you can compare times), try a different filter unit, try a different ADSL modem (if you can borrow one), then have a word with BT

Mark

Aladinsaneuk · #6 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:44 pm

check the website for the manufacturer and flash the router bios - sounds like it is having fun and games with the dynamic adsl systems we mainly have here

may well be worth checking the dhcp settings etc as well

Thumper · #7 Post by **Thumper** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:48 pm

My Pc manufacturer is defunct, "Tiny. com" (Time I bought a new one) so is there anywhere I can go to check that? Ive already checked the dhcp settings.

This Pc came with a locked v9o Modem to Supanet and initially I was dialing up. I had Hugh problems to start with getting it to go Broadband and fitted a new ethernet card before I could get it to work at all well, I'm no IT expert but I suspect the PC is part of the problem, I have had practically no joy with talktalk my isp they blame the BT line and BT say it's fine, had a guy look at the machine and he says he can't find a problem.
I will look into trying another adsl router
I am a long way from the exchange and the phone lines are thirty years old.

Thanks for the advice.

Aladinsaneuk · #8 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:59 pm

suggestion

ask a workmate if you can borrow a laptop over night/weekend, and try that - install drivers etc - if that is fine then is pc

if not fine, then is router....

if you do not need a router, just a standard adsl modem then they are cheap enough

HOWEVER, you said the magic words and they were Tiny/Time - those systems were... well, flakey is the polite way of saying it! if they worked they were ok, but they were fairly crappy with stuff like USB and so on

I f the pc is buggered, and trust me i would look very hard at that! then do you have a decent local small pc shop?

I suspec t that you could reuse a lot of the old system, hard drive, cd drive, speakers, mouse keyboard and screen - just get a new mobo, cpu, ram and case/power supply....

(Having said that, you can get some real bargains about atm - a system that is NOT vista friendly, but has xp on it would be cool and very cheap at the moment!)

Samray · #9 Post by **Samray** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:13 pm

My problem occurs with different pooters, different routers (hardwired and wireless),different filters,different cables and different wireless cards,phone connected or not.
BT have registered a fault complaint from the ISP twice and found no problem, in fact said the line was suited to an 8 gig upgrade.
It always clears for a while after a BT test.

D-Rider · #10 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:36 pm

Firestarter wrote:Samray, our TV sender (allows you to send a signal through the house, say from a DVD player or digibox, to a TV in a different room) interfered with the connection between wireless card and router, don't know if this might be to do with your problem?

Mark

Yep - I can vouch for that being a problem. Was setting up a video sender to transmit a camera picture to a VCR - at the same time WiFi went down. Took a while playing about to realise what the problem was, but as soon as I'd figured it I found that turning the power to the video sender on and off corellated completely with whether or not the WiFi would work.
Solved it by scrapping my plan for the video sender (I've got a wired TV distribution system for most of my AV requirements).

Did concern me that maybe the neigbours might decide to use a video sender at some point which could mess up my network and I'd have no ability to get it going.

Thumper · #11 Post by **Thumper** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:44 pm

I will try the lap top idea but as I say, sometimes it will be a week or two before the thing starts playing up.
I have the talktalk modem but it was troublesome I could give it another try as I don't need a router now I'm using one PC.

The tiny was very good value much better than Dell etc at the time, no pun intended,

It must be four years old now.
I have a Pc shop near by but honestly wouldn't go down that route it would be throwing good money away.

I did consider buying a new Mesh Pc with vista recently but got cold feet

Samray · #12 Post by **Samray** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:46 pm

Firestarter wrote:Samray, our TV sender (allows you to send a signal through the house, say from a DVD player or digibox, to a TV in a different room) interfered with the connection between wireless card and router, don't know if this might be to do with your problem?

Precisely why I asked the original question of Thumper, and no has nowt to do with my problem.