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Alpha162
27-08-2009, 18:15
Hey All,

Is anyone else in the CF11 area suffering a complete internet outage?

My internet has been down for two days now, I've had to resort to tethering to my phone!

It went down about 6pm on Monday, and according to the Router Status Page, it is waiting on something to be sent down from the TFTP Server:

'Boot State In Progress Waiting for TFTP'

Multiple reboots end in nothing different than the above, I would usually be on the support newsgroup by now, but I don't seem to be able to access it via a non-VM connection.

I have tried calling VM tech support twice to which I get a delightful recorded message about 'broadband problems in the CF11 area, and that engineers are fixing it asap'. On reaching a human, I was told when I phoned yesterday that the problem would be fixed by 8.30pm, that came and went, phoned today 10 minutes ago to be told is would be fixed by 6pm today, that too has gone (albeit by ~20 minutes).

So, has anyone got any more information about the fault?

I can't even see it listed on the VM Service Status page for South Wales, despite it being a known fault and even having it's own recorded message (what is the point of a service status page that is not updated?).

Many Thanks,

Dave.

Cable Modem Downstream
Downstream Lock : Locked
Downstream Channel Id : 37
Downstream Frequency : 299000000 Hz
Downstream Modulation : QAM256
Downstream Symbol Rate : 6952 Ksym/sec
Downstream Interleave Depth : taps12Increment17
Downstream Receive Power Level : 3.0 dBmV
Downstream SNR : 36.2 dB

Cable Modem Upstream
Upstream Lock : Locked
Upstream Channel ID : 2
Upstream Frequency : 47400000 Hz
Upstream Modulation : QAM16
Upstream Symbol Rate : 2560 Ksym/sec
Upstream transmit Power Level : 52.0 dBmV
Upstream Mini-Slot Size : 2

hu Aug 27 17:14:45 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:14:45 2009 Critical (3) TFTP failed - request sent - No Response
Thu Aug 27 17:13:07 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:13:07 2009 Information (7) CableModem DHCP client init ok
Thu Aug 27 17:13:07 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:13:07 2009 Critical (3) DHCP WARNING - Non-critical field invalid in response.
Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Information (7) MAP w/initial maintenance region received
Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Information (7) MAP w/initial maintenance region received
Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Information (7) Downstream sync ok
Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Information (7) Beginning initial ranging...
Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Information (7) downstream time sync acquired...
Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:58 2009 Information (7) Downstream sync ok
Thu Aug 27 17:12:57 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:57 2009 Information (7) starting ds time sync acquisition...
Thu Aug 27 17:12:55 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:55 2009 Information (7) Locked on the downstream. Waiting for UCDs...
Thu Aug 27 17:12:55 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:55 2009 Information (7) Downstream lock ok
Thu Aug 27 17:12:55 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:55 2009 Information (7) DS channel override in cfg file, re-scanning downstream
Thu Aug 27 17:12:55 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:55 2009 Information (7) IP init completed ok
Thu Aug 27 17:12:55 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:55 2009 Information (7) CableModem TFTP init ok
Thu Aug 27 17:12:55 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:55 2009 Information (7) CableModem DHCP client init ok
Thu Aug 27 17:12:54 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:54 2009 Critical (3) DHCP WARNING - Non-critical field invalid in response.
Thu Aug 27 17:12:45 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:45 2009 Information (7) MAP w/initial maintenance region received
Thu Aug 27 17:12:43 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:43 2009 Critical (3) No Ranging Response received - T3 time-out
Thu Aug 27 17:12:43 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:43 2009 Information (7) MAP w/initial maintenance region received
Thu Aug 27 17:12:42 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:42 2009 Information (7) Downstream sync ok
Thu Aug 27 17:12:42 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:42 2009 Information (7) Beginning initial ranging...
Thu Aug 27 17:12:42 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:42 2009 Information (7) downstream time sync acquired...
Thu Aug 27 17:12:42 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:42 2009 Information (7) Downstream sync ok
Thu Aug 27 17:12:41 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:41 2009 Information (7) starting ds time sync acquisition...
Thu Aug 27 17:12:37 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:37 2009 Information (7) Locked on the downstream. Waiting for UCDs...
Thu Aug 27 17:12:37 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:37 2009 Information (7) Downstream lock ok
Thu Aug 27 17:12:21 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:21 2009 Critical (3) SYNC Timing Synchronization failure - Failed to acquire FEC f...
Thu Aug 27 17:11:43 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:11:43 2009 Information (7) Failed to establish downstream FEC lock. Restart error.
Thu Aug 27 17:11:43 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:11:43 2009 Information (7) Downstream lock failed
Thu Aug 27 17:12:36 2009 Thu Aug 27 17:12:36 2009 Critical (3) SYNC Timing Synchronization failure - Failed to acquire QAM/Q..

Alpha162
27-08-2009, 23:28
And after about 48 hours, the internet is back on. Still no idea as to the cause, but I'm not complaining!

Speed's back to normal too

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/08/2.png (http://www.speedtest.net)