It's really getting on my nerves now...

[Neil]

Originally Posted by monkeybreath

The department that calls you back are open from 8-8 monday to friday and 9-5 saturday....

Originally Posted by Mrlipring

finally got to speak to someone at 18:40. Got put on hold for another 10 minutes, then was told that someone will phone me back "within 2 hours"

Nice to see the old CS-BS is still alive & kicking.

You know this problem so sounds much like what I had a few months back. Connection kept dropping randomly, they blamed my computer at first (even though I have 2, and the other one kept dropping too), then they thought it was my modem (i've got the 100 model, 2 years old and still running) then they gave me a new PSU for the modem, thinking it was that, when it was actually a fault in the area since a friend of mine who only lives a few blocks away from me - was having the same problem!

[Ignition]

OK...

mrlp what in the hell are you doing with that cable modem that's generating so much traffic, both in terms of bandwidth and packets per second?

Seeing 500 packets/sec going through a modem is a new one on me to be honest. Shareaza?

Worth mentioning that cable modems have a finite amount of memory and CPU.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by mrlipring

South Side. Mount Florida.

I am sort of near you, I am in Castlemilk.

[Chrysalis]

Ignition if its download is it possible he is under DDOS attack?

[Ignition]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Ignition if its download is it possible he is under DDOS attack?

No.

[Jules]

So could it be the heavy use that is making his connection dodgy?

[Ignition]

Originally Posted by whyme38

So could it be the heavy use that is making his connection dodgy?

Partly. I've just never seen that kind of throughput on a cable modem before in terms of packets per second. Something P2P like with a lot of peers to talk to.

Originally Posted by Ignition

Partly. I've just never seen that kind of throughput on a cable modem before in terms of packets per second. Something P2P like with a lot of peers to talk to.

Possibly playing an online game?

[Chrysalis]

yeah normally high packets/sec is usually a denial of service attack or p2p, some games may act in that manner also.

[mrlipring]

I was downloading stuff via bittorrent/usenet overnight. It didn't break overnight, so we can probably assume that it's not that. Or can we?

Surely idling in an irc chan plus using msn messenger isn't enough to make the modem fall over?

Either way, the connection breaks whether idle or taking a spanking, so it almost definitely isn't a throughput issue.

afaik (but i AM a heavy sleeper) they haven't tried to phone me back today.

Next time it breaks, i'll be back on the phone, but this is getting silly now...

[Ignition]

Originally Posted by Electrolyte

Possibly playing an online game?

Too much bandwidth util, skewed wrongly for gaming.

Still nothing apparently wrong. Minor adjustment made on my part.

[mrlipring]

Originally Posted by mrlipring

Perhaps the information line is wrong. IS There any work going on just now to fix this alleged area problem the CSA told me about?

Anyone in the know about this? Or was it fibs?

's working at the mo, but i have faith that it'll break again before too long...

[Ignition]

Well I can't really give you anymore at the moment, you're caning your upstream with Bittorrent causing your modem to fail to respond to my requests for info.

EDIT: Ah third time lucky. Nothing obviously wrong at present, and you've been online for more than a day now unbroken.

Upstream power is a little high, downstream power is a little low, still within spec though.

[mrlipring]

yep, it's been stable since about 18:30 last night, so fingers crossed something someone did somewhere worked.

Having said that, i'm expecting it to break soon.