Airwolf7
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join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
 ·AT&T Southeast
2 edits | reply to et1212
Re: Is your DSL connection interrupted by Lightening?
Let me guess, you have a Westell 6100 modem.
Note: If it is thundering and lightning with tornadoes whirling around outside then leave the computer alone and get somewhere safe and hide.
I have seen the Westell 6100 do this a few times , but not to many times because when it is doing that outside I normally turn off my equipment and disconnect it from the power outlet and phone jack then I find some nice to hide.
If it tornadoes I just hide, screw the computers. |
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et1212
join:2005-10-23
Mableton, GA
·AT&T Southeast
1 edit | He-he, very funny.
I mean thundering and lightening at a good distance from me...
All my equipments are on pretty good grade UPS'. I build my own pc's -- good psu on UPS is a must-have for me.
It is a Westell 6100... Can I can demand a different modem from ATT? If not, is there any good modem I can buy myself? |
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Splitpair
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Cow Towne
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| said by et1212  :It is a Westell 6100... Can I can demand a different modem from ATT? If not, is there any good modem I can buy myself? The problem is with the Westell they have a very sensitive front end that can pick a signal out of dirt but it doesn't handle the induced noise of a lightning hit very well.
You could swap out the modem for a less sensitive one but that might introduce other new problems if you are running over 3 meg.
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Hayward
K A R - 1 2 0 C
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join:2000-07-13
Key West, FL
1 edit | reply to Airwolf7
said by Airwolf7 :Let me guess, you have a Westell 6100 modem. Oh please that is total BS.... I have had briefly 6.0 service ant bordr line distance but approved, that was very eratic, but also close and qualified but enough it was a problem no matter how tweaked... 3.0 ROCK SOLID bu there are LIMITS
Just because some thing is offered doesn't mean it works in ALL cases,
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Airwolf7
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join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
·AT&T Southeast
| said by Hayward :said by Airwolf7 :Let me guess, you have a Westell 6100 modem. Oh please that is total BS.... I have had briefly 6.0 service ant bordr line distance but approved, that was very eratic, but also close and qualified but enough it was a problem no matter how tweaked... 3.0 ROCK SOLID bu there are LIMITS Just because some thing is offered doesn't mean it works in ALL cases, I don't understand. What is total BS?
Is the fact that lots of people have noticed when it is lightning their modem loses sync and they also notice their modem is a Westell 6100 total BS?
Is it total BS when they replace their Westell 6100 modem with any modem that is not a Westell 6100 their problems go away?
I don't have anything against the Westell 6100. I like the Westell 6100.
It just seems like under certain conditions the Westell 6100 loses sync a lot when it is lightning. Some people have Westell 6100 modems and say that it does not lose sync even if lightning strikes their house multiple times in a row. Maybe their line conditions are very different then the people that have the problems with the Westell 6100 and lightning.
Most people that have Westell 6100 modems and replace them with another modem don't have any more problems with lightning after that.
Do a search of the AT&T Southeast forum for Westell 6100 and lightning and see what you come up with. |
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Hayward
K A R - 1 2 0 C
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Key West, FL
3 edits | Oh and you think Key West is immune to lightning do you?
OK maybe I have the ONE good 6100 (actually two for the brief time I attempted 6.0... neither has EVER failed because of lightning I have noticed... and now have a back up should I need it.
Then again being high lightning and hurricane resistant infrastructure most of SO FL isn't why you never heard 70% of KW was under 3=8 ft of water in Wilma....
No just all the just thrown TOOTHPICKS fell over in MIA/DADE When Wilma was less than half the strength it it hit KW with... Again Cat 3 with 13 ft storm surge on an aveverage 6 fto above sea level island... vs PIDDLING hardly Cat 1 wehrn it hit MIA and knocked over the TOOTHPICKS and had them without power for a MONTH in many areas.
No you are not suffering MODEM problems you are suffering lame ASSED infrastructure.... not that other modems might not reconnect better... but you still need something to reconnect to!
Pretty much we had power back in 48 hours at Cat 3 vs 1 MIA got.... and much of that delay was waiting for areas to full drain/dry so people didn't acciddentaly electrocute themselves, not that it couldn't have been done sooner
Sorry just don't believe the 6100 BS I was a bit too far though approved for 6.0.... but 6100 has been ROCK solid for 3.0... and through several power failures (life at the end of the 150 mile ext cord from MIA) with UPS, cable was a lost deal for those relying on Cumcast... But Laptop (its own battery) DSL and 6100 were flawless.
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Airwolf7
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join:2004-12-12
Franklin, KY
·AT&T Southeast
| I have had just about every modem that BellSouth has released to their customers and the only one that loses sync when it lightnings is any of the forty eleven Westell 6100 modems that I have owned.
Mine will only lose sync if lightning is hitting shit out in the back yard.
A fellow that lives about a block away from me had a Westell 2200 that pooped out on him and I gave him a brand new in the box Westell 6100 model C90-610030-06 and he called me up one day and said that he can't use the Internet if it is storming because the DSL LED is always flashing when it storms.
I gave him a Netopia 2241N-006 and he has had no problems since then.
He recently called me and asked what would be a good wireless router to get to work with his Netopia 2241N-006 and how much would it cost and I told him that he could get a FREE 2Wire 2701HG-B and he has had no problems with it either.
I would bet money that I could take a Westell 6100 back over to his house and it would lose sync every time it stormed.
His would lose sync if it is lightning in the next county and mine will only lose sync if the lightning is hitting stuff in my yard.
We both have Xtreme 6.0 with the same Siecor/Corning ADSL/POTS splitter and are both connected to the CO on High Street and his DSL Statistics are way better than mine.
My Downstream SNR Margin is 12dB and Upstream SNR Margin is 12dB with a Downstream Line Attenuation of 14B and an Upstream Line Attenuation of 7dB.
His Downstream SNR Margin is 21dB and Upstream SNR Margin is 14dB with a Downstream Line Attenuation of 12dB and an Upstream Line Attenuation of 5dB.
His DSL Statistics are way better than mine but for some reason when it storms a Westell 6100 on his line hides in the closet and cries until the storm has passed and on my line a Westell 6100 does not care about storms unless lightning is hitting the trees in my back yard.
Hayward, I don't have any idea why some people can have a Westell 6100 in the lightning capital of the world and never have a problem and some people will have nothing but problems with their Westell 6100 when it storms. |
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Hayward
K A R - 1 2 0 C
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Key West, FL
4 edits | said by Airwolf7 :Hayward, I don't have any idea why some people can have a Westell 6100 in the lightning capital of the world and never have a problem and some people will have nothing but problems with their Westell 6100 when it storms. Well again that sort of screams line and not modem... even if stats are good in norm conditions... the line is seeing storm surges all can go to hell.... and maybe the 6100's are just good at saying hey I'll let go for a sec before I fry myself for no reason... or whatever.
But again I would attribute it more to the given line conditions and not the modem per se.
And I have the historical line monitor graphs from here to show it, even if I wasn't there doing something a very flat line ping and green all the way across unless I actually shut it down. Of course as I recall that is only once every 10 min pinged.
And then another thing do these people also have their PPPoE software or router set to be always connected? And OK maybe for 30 sec I wasn't doing anything might have been disconnected, but it reconnected no problem and I'm not a 24/7/365 full bore downloader of the world... to maybe notice that 10 sec failure 
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