On Nov 30, 2007 12:24 PM, <kyle(a)feet.net.nz> wrote:
On 30/11/2007, James Pluck <papabearnz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm in a bit of a bind. We're experiencing very poor connectivity at the moment from Slingshot. We're lucky to be able to stay online for more than 3 minutes at a time.
I've had very bad problems earlier this week and they seem to have gone away again. I'm on the same exchange as you, but with a different ISP (Xnet). Xnet reported that work is being done on the Frankton exchange. I suspect that is where the problem lies.
I think a lot of people will be experiencing outages as they seem to be in the process of upgrading exchanges.. all of a sudden i can connect at adsl2+ at over 2 megabit.. and my downloads went from 100k average to over 7 megabit average the other night..
so even if you need to go buy a new modem think of it as an investment..
I do have a dlink dsl302g (free xtra modem) that i use for testing at times if you get desperate, can loan it to you if needed.
I currently have a dynalink (rta1350?) adsl2+ router that I'm using. It's slaved to my Netgear wifi 4 port switch. This morning the connection seemed to be stable - at least it remained up for the 15 mins I was using it.
Now that my wife and I have deceided to stay in Hamilton longterm I think it will be worth getting someone in to rewire my phone ports with cat5 and replace them with UTP jacks and a reposition the router to the bottom of the linen closet to get some of the unsightly spaghetti cable clutter out of the way. I also intend to put in a splitter and get rid of the filters to improve the signal quality to the dsl directly and pave the way for installing a monitored alarm. But I'm sure that a professional rewiring of my 50+yo ex-state house will have no effect on signal quality *grin* J -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum "Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list..."