My VDSL connection has been a bit flaky this last few weeks, dropping once or twice a week, usually in the early hours of the morning (2-3 am) but usually reconnecting fairly soon afterwards. No-one is usually using the internet at that time, so livable with.
Tonight it dropped out about 9 pm, but did not come back on in the usual timescale, so I rebooted my TP-Link router, but no connection.
I eventually got my IPv4 connection, and therefore Internet access, back, but my IPv6 still isn't connected.
My router stats:
| |
Upstream |
Downstream |
| Current Rate (kbps) |
10665 |
43999 |
| Max Rate (kbps) |
10688 |
65823 |
| SNR Margin (dB) |
6.4 |
8.8 |
| Line Attenuation (dB) |
3.3 |
14.3 |
| Errors (pkts) |
910 |
934 |
As can be seen, the current line rate is way below what the router thinks is attainable, having dropped from over 50000 (still a bit low, but then again nothing I am doing online is maxing that out) , and the error count and downstream SNR margin look to me to be quite high. I tried reporting a fault using the SMS text-based Bot, but it couldn't find my account, which is also a concern.
I'll give Instagram fault reporting a go meantime, and also post on the IPv6 trial forum regarding that separate issue.
Previous issues, apart from a lightning strike at the back end of last summer, have required a bod with a chainsaw cutting back branches where my line goes through trees, so possibly needs doing again.
