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Originally Posted by jempalmer
You could try the ancient tried and trusted method. Unplug it and wait a minute before restarting, PC and SuperSlug. Sometimes it does the trick.
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I'll probably give that a go but it's certainly rebooted itself enough times during the process of reserving IPs when I set it up to make me think that may not sort it out.
The only reason I am concerned at all is Seph's writeup on the VM community board -
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...ER/td-p/148068
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THE EFFECTS OF LOW UPSTREAM POWER
This can be a tricky one. A house that is close to the street cabinet needs less power than one that is further away, subject to the tap point used at the street cabinet. This is why upstream values like 29 dBmv can work OK (though there can then be SNR issues) - but it could mean that the house is connected to a low attenuation tap point and thus the downstream power might be too high.
If you are only 20m from the street cabinet instead of 100, you immediately gain 3 dB and if you are on the 10 dB tap, you only need 32.5 dBmv to make 15 dBmv at the optical node.
So, if you are some distance from the street cabinet AND your upstream power is low (with possible attendant SNR issues) AND you're having problems, then you could have a faulty modem.
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I'm at least 100m from the cab and actually had high upstream power a couple of times. A couple of network changes brought it to ~ 40 until I just got this SH. When I first had one the installers went through three before they got one to work at all so I'm not impressed with the QC and suspect this one could be dicey.