Consistant connection issues.

[andysharman]

Please can someone help me.

I have been a sky mid customer for 6-7 months with no issues untill recenty.


I am getting a lot of connection drop outs over the past month.

Sky say my line should only really work at 3.5mb but I am getting 6.5mb they have capped the line connection to 5 mb but I still get issues but I think not as much.


I did have a Netgear dg834gt router but have now got a Belkin 8631 this has not solved the issue but has increased my wireless range.

When I got home tonight the Internet light was not on at all.

Here are the logs before I rebooted the router.

System log:
Jan 1 00:00:27 kernel: ADSL G.994 training
Jan 1 00:00:29 syslog: Internet connection down!
Jan 1 00:00:39 kernel: ADSL G.992 started
Jan 1 00:00:41 kernel: ADSL G.992 channel analysis
Jan 1 00:00:45 kernel: ADSL G.992 message exchange
Jan 1 00:00:46 kernel: ADSL link up, interleaved, us=416, ds=5120
Jan 1 00:00:48 pppd[603]: PPP: Start to connect ...
Jan 1 00:01:06 syslog: User from 192.168.1.2 login success !
Jan 1 00:01:12 pppd[603]: PPP LCP UP.
Jan 1 00:01:14 pppd[603]: Received valid IP address(90.200.145.49) from server.
Nov 5 20:20:38 syslog: Internet connection up!
Nov 5 20:30:45 syslog: User from 192.168.1.2 time out
Nov 6 01:40:11 kernel: ADSL link down
Nov 6 01:41:41 pppd[603]: Clear IP addresses. Connection DOWN.
Nov 6 01:41:41 pppd[603]: Clear IP addresses. PPP connection DOWN.
Nov 6 01:41:47 syslog: Internet connection down!
Nov 6 01:42:17 pppd[603]: PPP: Try to connect to PPP server ...
Nov 6 01:43:26 pppd[603]: PPP: Try to connect to PPP server ...
Nov 6 01:44:34 pppd[603]: PPP: Try to connect to PPP server ...
Nov 6 01:45:42 pppd[603]: PPP: Try to connect to PPP server ...
Nov 6 01:46:51 pppd[603]: PPP: Try to connect to PPP server ...
Nov 6 01:47:59 pppd[603]: PPP: Try to connect to PPP server ...
Nov 6 01:49:07 pppd[603]: PPP: Try to connect to PPP server ...
Nov 6 01:50:16 pppd[603]: PPP: Try to connect to PPP server ...
Nov 6 01:50:25 kernel: ADSL G.994 training
Nov 6 01:50:49 kernel: ADSL G.992 started
Nov 6 01:50:52 kernel: ADSL G.992 channel analysis
Nov 6 01:50:56 kernel: ADSL G.992 message exchange
Nov 6 01:50:57 kernel: ADSL link up, interleaved, us=416, ds=5120
Nov 6 01:51:24 pppd[603]: PPP: Try to connect to PPP server ...
Nov 6 01:52:20 pppd[603]: PPP LCP UP.
Nov 6 01:52:21 pppd[603]: Received valid IP address(90.200.145.106) from server.
Nov 6 12:46:00 syslog: User from 192.168.1.2 login success !
Nov 6 12:46:59 pppd[603]: Clear IP addresses. Connection DOWN.
Nov 6 12:46:59 pppd[603]: Clear IP addresses. PPP connection DOWN.
Nov 6 12:47:01 pppd[19974]: PPP: Start to connect ...
Nov 6 12:47:01 pppd[19974]: PPP LCP UP.
Nov 6 12:47:02 pppd[19974]: Received valid IP address(90.204.140.171) from server.
Nov 6 12:47:08 syslog: Internet connection up!
Nov 6 12:58:35 syslog: User from 192.168.1.2 time out
Nov 6 15:47:04 kernel: ADSL link down
Nov 6 15:47:05 kernel: ADSL G.994 training
Nov 6 15:47:21 kernel: ADSL G.992 started
Nov 6 15:47:24 kernel: ADSL G.992 channel analysis
Nov 6 15:47:28 kernel: ADSL G.992 message exchange
Nov 6 15:47:29 kernel: ADSL link up, interleaved, us=416, ds=5120
Nov 6 15:48:12 pppd[19974]: Clear IP addresses. Connection DOWN.
Nov 6 15:48:12 pppd[19974]: Clear IP addresses. PPP connection DOWN.
Nov 6 15:48:19 syslog: Internet connection down!
Nov 6 15:48:20 pppd[19974]: PPP LCP UP.
Nov 6 15:48:21 pppd[19974]: Received valid IP address(90.204.140.171) from server.
Nov 6 16:39:19 syslog: User from 192.168.1.2 login success !
Nov 6 16:39:28 pppd[19974]: Clear IP addresses. Connection DOWN.
Nov 6 16:39:28 pppd[19974]: Clear IP addresses. PPP connection DOWN.
Nov 6 16:39:32 pppd[3920]: PPP: Start to connect ...
Nov 6 16:39:32 pppd[3920]: PPP LCP UP.
Nov 6 16:39:32 pppd[3920]: Received valid IP address(90.204.140.171) from server.
Nov 6 16:39:39 syslog: Internet connection up!
Nov 6 16:49:32 syslog: User from 192.168.1.2 time out
Nov 6 18:10:38 kernel: ADSL link down
Nov 6 18:10:39 kernel: ADSL G.994 training
Nov 6 18:11:00 kernel: ADSL G.992 started
Nov 6 18:11:02 kernel: ADSL G.992 channel analysis
Nov 6 18:11:07 kernel: ADSL G.992 message exchange
Nov 6 18:11:08 kernel: ADSL link up, interleaved, us=416, ds=5120
Nov 6 18:11:49 pppd[3920]: Clear IP addresses. Connection DOWN.
Nov 6 18:11:49 pppd[3920]: Clear IP addresses. PPP connection DOWN.
Nov 6 18:11:57 pppd[3920]: PPP LCP UP.
Nov 6 18:11:58 syslog: Internet connection down!
Nov 6 18:11:59 pppd[3920]: Received valid IP address(90.204.140.109) from server.
Nov 6 19:05:12 syslog: User from 192.168.1.3 login success !


ADSL stats



adsl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: ShowtimeRetrain Reason: 1
Channel: INTR, Upstream rate = 416 Kbps, Downstream rate = 5120 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: G.DMT
Channel: Interleave
Trellis: ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 7.1 14.0
Attn(dB): 49.0 30.5
Pwr(dBm): 19.8 0.8
Max(Kbps): 5856 1152
Rate (Kbps): 5120 416
G.dmt framing
K: 161(0) 14
R: 16 16
S: 1 16
D: 32 2
ADSL2 framing
MSGc: 1 1
B: 161 14
M: 1 16
T: 1 1
R: 16 16
S: 1.0987 17.0666
L: 1296 120
D: 32 2
Counters
SF: 256118 256121
SFErr: 23 0
RS: 17416054 1088012
RSCorr: 9548 6
RSUnCorr: 286 0

HEC: 21 0
OCD: 0 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 52576943 0
Data Cells: 591 0
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0

ES: 202 0
SES: 8 0
UAS: 394 0
AS: 4354

INP: 1.58 1.06
PER: 1.92 1.86
delay: 8.79 8.53
OR: 29.12 30.00

Bitswap: 0 0

Total time = 23 hours 4 min 21 sec
SF = 4841536
CRC = 2003
LOS = 3
LOF = 22
ES = 202
Latest 1 day time = 23 hours 4 min 21 sec
SF = 4841536
CRC = 2003
LOS = 3
LOF = 22
ES = 202
Latest 15 minutes time = 4 min 21 sec
SF = 15399
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52923
CRC = 2
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 2
Previous 1 day time = 0 sec
SF = 0
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
15 minutes interval [-30 min to -15 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52923
CRC = 10
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 7
15 minutes interval [-45 min to -30 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52923
CRC = 7
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 6
15 minutes interval [-60 min to -45 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52982
CRC = 3
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 3
Showtime Drop Reason: 1
Last Retrain Reason: 1

I think CRC errors are the issue and am thinking of getting sky to cap my line to 3.5 mb.

I would be interested my any help I can get.

[PaulSky]

If they said that the line could only take 3.5 why did they cap at 5? Doesn't make sense to me. When they capped the line did you call them back when the problem was still there?

[andysharman]

I know what you mean.

I have a call in with them now to capp it to 3.5 mb and I hope the link tay's up better.

What I cant understand is why has it been working for such a long time on 6.5 mb and now just started to get worse.