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Ya, Ya, I know this isn't a MRR topic, however this info may prevent one of you good folks from having to go through what I just went through for 2 weeks trying to trouble shoot my DSL Connection . Get a load of this, this is how it started.. <br /> <br />Symptom..DSL Connection would lose sync with equipment at local telephone company Central Office, not all the time but it did seem to be focused in a time frame between 4pm- 11pm at night. <br /> <br />At first, I thought well maybe it's my modem, my ready light would go out and then start flickering like it was trying to re-aquire the far end equipment, so I changed to my spare modem, no change, still losing sync, so I check my cable pair from the house to the Central Office, it checks ok, next I call a friend with the phone company and he changes their equipment, still no change in situation. Now it's about a week or so later into this, and I'm just about out of ideas, then it struck like a flash bulb going off, maybe I've got a problem with my surge protector, so I eliminate that too by running my cable directly from the modem to the wall jack, guess what, Ya you got it, problem fixed, I even went back and checked other cables, no cable problems. I haven't quiet figured out why the time frame of the trouble, but I suspect that may have something to do with the connection operating marginally to begin with because of the surge protector, then with all 4 customers operating 3 meg connections, it was just too much for the modem to maintain the connection. Hope this helps someone that may have problems with a 3 meg connection. You would probably never experience this with a 1.5 meg connection since there's more than enough bandwidth to accomodate 4 customers with such connections but when you move all four up to 3 megs, I think it gets a little crowded and if you've got any kind of trouble developing on your connection, it just aggrevates the situation. So far, no more trouble, after 3 nights of operation without the surge protector but I'll have to move everything to my other surge protector. Remember, protecting against surges is a must but be sure you also protect the phone line too. Lightning will do a real number on your computor if you don't.
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