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General Maximus · 22-05-2011, 20:23

really funny you should say that dude because I have the same problem (used to but dont now). You arent actually being "disconnected" which is why your lights stay on. I have only ever noticed it on sustained high speed data transfers, namely newsgroups and torrents. Everything will run at full speed, then hit 0k for a min or two and then blast off again. I always attributed it to some sort of safety thing VM put on the network. If it was a browser download it would have timed out and thus saved VM the bandwidth, but with it being a torrent or nntp, it will auto resume.

The long and short of it is that it is a teeny tiny inconvenience so I wouldn't worry about it.

22-05-2011, 20:23	#2
General Maximus cf.mega poster Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln Services: phone + 1gbit BB + SkyQ Posts: 11,021	Re: Connection dropping, but modem lights remain healthy. really funny you should say that dude because I have the same problem (used to but dont now). You arent actually being "disconnected" which is why your lights stay on. I have only ever noticed it on sustained high speed data transfers, namely newsgroups and torrents. Everything will run at full speed, then hit 0k for a min or two and then blast off again. I always attributed it to some sort of safety thing VM put on the network. If it was a browser download it would have timed out and thus saved VM the bandwidth, but with it being a torrent or nntp, it will auto resume. The long and short of it is that it is a teeny tiny inconvenience so I wouldn't worry about it.