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We've been getting a lot of linedrops on our broadband ever since the "upgrade" to ADSLMax.
As I'm off sick, I thought maybe it was time to call Zen about it - their support is only open 9-5 weekdays, slight drawback to their service.
Only then I thought, well maybe I should try a router/modem firmware upgrade. So I did.
And now, instead of humungous quantities of upstream FEC errors with occasional CRC and HEC errors thrown in for fun, all the errors are downstream. 82 FEC, 13 CRC, 9 HEC in about a half hour or so. Maybe a bit longer. We are getting 6M though, and no drop so far.
So I dunno whether to phone them or not.
What can I do to provoke a drop?
Oh, and I carefully backed up the config, and restored it after the firmware upgrade, but it seems not to have shipped the un&pw back in, and seems reluctant to save them when I type them back in.
And we have static IP but it's gone to "ISP supplies IP" and it seems reluctant to accept changes to these params. Tsk.
As I'm off sick, I thought maybe it was time to call Zen about it - their support is only open 9-5 weekdays, slight drawback to their service.
Only then I thought, well maybe I should try a router/modem firmware upgrade. So I did.
And now, instead of humungous quantities of upstream FEC errors with occasional CRC and HEC errors thrown in for fun, all the errors are downstream. 82 FEC, 13 CRC, 9 HEC in about a half hour or so. Maybe a bit longer. We are getting 6M though, and no drop so far.
So I dunno whether to phone them or not.
What can I do to provoke a drop?
Oh, and I carefully backed up the config, and restored it after the firmware upgrade, but it seems not to have shipped the un&pw back in, and seems reluctant to save them when I type them back in.
And we have static IP but it's gone to "ISP supplies IP" and it seems reluctant to accept changes to these params. Tsk.
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