On Nov 30, 2007 12:24 PM, <kyle@feet.net.nz> wrote:
> On 30/11/2007, James Pluck <papabearnz@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
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