Still getting loads of connection dropouts

[#1]

Hi everyone
This has been going on for 7 weeks now, lots of dropouts every day.
I've had 3 engineers come, 4 if you count the one who didn't turn up :(((
All three did some testing at the main socket, at my extension, then up at the cabinet & exchange.  No idea what they discovered or if they did anything different to each other.
That's fully 2 days of my annual leave I've lost now
I've changed modem/routers, I've changed filters,  I've removed all of the extension wiring, that has been fine for the last 10 years, from the setup.
The modem is now plugged into a filter in the only socket.  there is nothing hard wired into the socket
Before it started around the 20th April I was getting around 5-6mbps.  Around beginning of May I believe I went onto ADSL2+
routerstats log from this morning attached.  I can find no order to the dropouts, they don't tie up with anything timewise.
I'm about 1.5km to the cabinet by road and 1.7km to the exchange.  Aluminium from cabinet to home allegedly
Had quite a few of these messages on my Plusnet fault log:
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Any ideas anyone?


from router:
ADSL
  Type Interleave Path
  Status SHOWTIME
   
Downstream Upstream

  Data rate(Kbps)
4544Kb 440Kb

  Noise Margin
7 26

  Output power(dBm)
128 185

  Attenuation(dB)
42 15



from http://www.speedtester.bt.com/
1. Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Download  Speed
3.77 Mbps

0 Mbps 4 Mbps
Max Achievable Speed
Download speedachieved during the test was - 3.77 Mbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 1.2 Mbps-4 Mbps.
IP Profile for your line is - 4.01 Mbps
2. Upstream Test: -provides background information.
Upload Speed
0.34 Mbps

0 Mbps 0.45 Mbps
Max Achievable Speed
Upload speed achieved during the test was - 0.34Mbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 0.45 Mbps

[#2]

latest PN trace attached

REALLY frustrating

[#3]

what is the router you are currently using?  The reason I ask is that the same happened to me when I upgraded to adsl2+. I was using a Belkin 2740-R which I only had from last June, it was dropping connection all over the place. In fact according to PN towers records I had 20 drops in 72 hours. So it was concluded it was my router and they kindly sent me out a new PN one which stayed connected for 24 hours solid. Unfortunately it was a faulty one so it was not broadcasting wifi, but this is being replaced. I would suggest that the routers you were using were not compatible with the new equipment put into your exchange just as mine wasn't here.

[#4]

I had been using a Belkin F5D7633-4 for a good few years now
tried a USRobotics Sureconnect 9105, older but unused
now I've borrowed a F6D4630-4 from someone already gone to Infinity
Plusnet haven't mentioned anything about any modems not being compatible with ADSL2, just to try a different one to eliminate mine.
looking on the list of compatable kit, my older 7633 seems to be listed as 'works'

[#5]

I had one of those before my D-link but found that it would tend to drop out frequently only the ADSL 2 connection, that was why I bought the D-Link. However the D-link struggled to cope when I moved to ADSl2+ with constant drop outs. I would ask PN for one of their routers, that way it will eliminate for sure it is the modem if things keep happening

[#6]

Haven't heard from PN since engineer visit on thursday now.
Starting to feel unloved ...

so much for getting back to me within 24-48 hours

[#7]

Hi gunsmoke,
Sorry about that. I'll give someone a nudge.
Jojo