[wplug] DSL?

[John Lawrence]

I had similar problems with my DSL line.

Every time one of my phones would ring the connection would drop.

I opened several trouble calls, the problem would get better but it was
never fixed.

I ran a separate line directly to my DSL modem and it helped a little.

One day I lost dial tone completely on my phones but the DSL continued to
work.

The phone Tech came to my house and found shorted pairs outside my house.  I
told him about my hang-up problems and he installed a splitter in my line at
the NID box (where the line comes in to my house).  I still have the
separate line to my DSL box from the NID.  He told me I would need to keep
it that way.

Since the telco splitter has been installed my DSL connection is working
about 3 times better.

 

 

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On 3/13/07, Drew from Zhrodague <HYPERLINK
"mailto:drew at zhrodague.net"drew at zhrodague.net> wrote:

> Just wondering because every time it happens, which is frequent, I close
the
> game and go immediately to my browser to verify connectivity. It's always
> fine from a port 80 perspective.

        It might be useful to try some kind of protocol test. I don't know 
that there are any out there. It would make sense to send some data at
each TCP and UDP port, and measure the difference in speed/latency.

        That kind of app would probably generate some buzz, too.



Iperf is the perfect tool for just that.  It tests, TCP, UDP, and Multicast
traffic.

You'll need to run it on a server available to the internet, and open the
appropriate port in your firewall. 
HYPERLINK
"http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/"http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/

Binaries are available for Linux and Windows.

-Mike

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