Trinitarian broadband!!!
My comment about having everything back to right was simply that I now had the internet connection operating normally, as it was before I started the tests that I was asked to do by Anotherone. The printer, also, is working again. 
I am trying out various bits of euipment in the house as today goes on - switching on/off, or starting up (as in the central heating) at random times to see if anything freaks out the signal, around the time they would normally be on, or off, as the case may be. The fact that items have been removed cannot be relevant since if they had been at fault the problem would stop at their removal.
I live on in an area of mainly professional people, so no factories or shops in the immediate vicinity (though my house doesn't meet the standards of those around me - maintained as it has been by a committee). When the problem occurs it usually during some time off (or at least, that is when I know it occurs - I have not been able to see whether they are the only times because it may happen when I am not here, I suppose, although the holiday period was clearly quiet. It happens, usually, when I just relaxing and reading or watching tv and occasionally checking facebook etc. There is no one else in the house, although my daughters do visit at times with their computers; it has not happened when they have been here, yet.
The flow chart for noise is showing a drop from 6.8 to 6.6 for the past 20 minutes - I am watching to see if this is a lead in, but I don't expect the regular hit today.
I am trying out various bits of euipment in the house as today goes on - switching on/off, or starting up (as in the central heating) at random times to see if anything freaks out the signal, around the time they would normally be on, or off, as the case may be. The fact that items have been removed cannot be relevant since if they had been at fault the problem would stop at their removal.
I live on in an area of mainly professional people, so no factories or shops in the immediate vicinity (though my house doesn't meet the standards of those around me - maintained as it has been by a committee). When the problem occurs it usually during some time off (or at least, that is when I know it occurs - I have not been able to see whether they are the only times because it may happen when I am not here, I suppose, although the holiday period was clearly quiet. It happens, usually, when I just relaxing and reading or watching tv and occasionally checking facebook etc. There is no one else in the house, although my daughters do visit at times with their computers; it has not happened when they have been here, yet.
The flow chart for noise is showing a drop from 6.8 to 6.6 for the past 20 minutes - I am watching to see if this is a lead in, but I don't expect the regular hit today.
Townman - thanks, I'll do that.
Re your last point, the point I have laboured to make is that we have a given fact that the problem started near the end of May. Therefore, whatever continues to manifest itself as that fault must have been there from the start of the problem and, as the problem continues, it must still be here (internal or external to the house). Therefore, logic dictates that any new items added, although they may make it more acute, could not be the original cause. Logic also dictates that items that have been removed from the house could not be the problem because the fault continues to exist without them being present.
(sorry, just using a little basic philosophy here).
Re your last point, the point I have laboured to make is that we have a given fact that the problem started near the end of May. Therefore, whatever continues to manifest itself as that fault must have been there from the start of the problem and, as the problem continues, it must still be here (internal or external to the house). Therefore, logic dictates that any new items added, although they may make it more acute, could not be the original cause. Logic also dictates that items that have been removed from the house could not be the problem because the fault continues to exist without them being present.
(sorry, just using a little basic philosophy here).
Kevin will explain how to turn on the average plotting for the SNRM.
Your philosophy is of course correct
Who did your brother go to?
What a lot of people fail to realise is that Plusnet (nor any ISP) maintains or repairs the line between them and the exchange or the equipment in the exchange (if not LLU), that is Openreach and BT wholesale. Faults there are outside their direct control, but whilst they have the ability to do a limited range of testing and then pass any fault on to BTw and/or OR, those organisations don't always get to the root cause of the fault.
When you consider that Plusnet has getting on for 3/4million customers, the % that have line faults is very small. And remember that a lot of the BT/Openreach infrastructure is quite old, although a fair bit is being updated, one sometimes wonders that broadband works at all!
Your philosophy is of course correct
Who did your brother go to?
What a lot of people fail to realise is that Plusnet (nor any ISP) maintains or repairs the line between them and the exchange or the equipment in the exchange (if not LLU), that is Openreach and BT wholesale. Faults there are outside their direct control, but whilst they have the ability to do a limited range of testing and then pass any fault on to BTw and/or OR, those organisations don't always get to the root cause of the fault.
When you consider that Plusnet has getting on for 3/4million customers, the % that have line faults is very small. And remember that a lot of the BT/Openreach infrastructure is quite old, although a fair bit is being updated, one sometimes wonders that broadband works at all!
Anotherone - I only included the 'philosophy' because we seem at times to get bogged down with what has been added / taken away since May - that is irrelevant, unless the fault suddenly stops at the removal of something that has been here since the end of May, or an external event ceases that has been going on since the end of May
My brother switched to Virgin.
My brother switched to Virgin.
Actually Kevin it should have read "as dusk/darkness arrives" It does depend a bit on what's happening in the atmosphere on the day.
I'm glad you made that "confession" as I was going to PM you to ask are you going to mention it or am I.
In my experience, the issue can crop up when the cumputer processor gets 100% usage with another task. The remedy as Kevin explained is the stop/start button, no need to close it down. Visually you will see a clean step down to zero on any graphs that are plotting and then a clean step up again when restarted. The pink average plot if on, will take a while to recover to the correct place.
On the stats, avodat, did you perchance restart the modem/router last night around 11.20pm? Other than that, error rate seems quite reasonable.
On the subject of interference, even new equipment that's been added may exacerbate the situation if it is generating "electrical/electronic noise" so do check if it has any effect when switching on/off.
Now, I'm keen to see the Telnet Router log that you can get from Routerstats now it is running, that Kevin was also so keen to see. It could be more relevant now the modem/router has had a clean start. Because it also has a limited size, although bigger than the GUI one, it will eventually get full of irrelevant garbage that is of no consequence.and we may miss seeing something of interest.
It does depend a bit on what's happening in the atmosphere on the day.I'm glad you made that "confession"
as I was going to PM you to ask are you going to mention it or am I.In my experience, the issue can crop up when the cumputer processor gets 100% usage with another task. The remedy as Kevin explained is the stop/start button, no need to close it down. Visually you will see a clean step down to zero on any graphs that are plotting and then a clean step up again when restarted. The pink average plot if on, will take a while to recover to the correct place.
On the stats, avodat, did you perchance restart the modem/router last night around 11.20pm? Other than that, error rate seems quite reasonable.
On the subject of interference, even new equipment that's been added may exacerbate the situation if it is generating "electrical/electronic noise" so do check if it has any effect when switching on/off.
Now, I'm keen to see the Telnet Router log that you can get from Routerstats now it is running, that Kevin was also so keen to see. It could be more relevant now the modem/router has had a clean start. Because it also has a limited size, although bigger than the GUI one, it will eventually get full of irrelevant garbage that is of no consequence.and we may miss seeing something of interest.