http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Trouble-with-dsl-connection-22620538 en Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:13:56 EDT Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:13:56 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Trouble-with-dsl-connection-22655930
What level of tech support is blowing smoke/talking nonsense with the "exceeding our flow-cache" phrase? Did you buy "time sharing" DSL or "always on" DSL?

You are saying that purchasing a Static IP corrected your disconnections? If yes, then something else was fixed/changed during the change over as Dynamic IP DSL and Static IP DSL have no difference in their stability abilities. The DSL signal doesn't know or care if the IP is Dynamic or Static. In other words, that isn't a factor that affects stability of the DSL signal. It might affect the Routing to where you are going over a route that isn't oversold and only if the Dynamic IPs are ending up on a different Route that actually is oversold. That would cause disconnections though it would cause huge latency changes especially during peak use periods like the evenings and weekends.

You should always start with diagnosing the DSL Modems LEDs, then look at the SNR and Attenuation on the line. There should be a log in most DSL Modem//Router that allow you to see DSL events and PPP events so you can tell very quickly what the conditions are by deciphering the log entries.

Enjoy.
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Is this true for all ISP's? I have ping blocked on my AT&T ADSL connection, but I have never experienced a disconnect.
It's the router that's usually behind the drop, and no, it's not necessarily true for all. I don't know the characteristics of the OP's setup, but it's just another item to tick off for troubleshooting, though.
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• Smart keep alive
• Connect on demand
• Always attempt to connect

The first and second will both drop the connection if there is no traffic on the line for some unknown period of time. Even when browsing a web site, if you pause to read a lengthy section, and your browser isn't sending a "heartbeat", your modem will detect no activity and drop the connection.

I've found that the 'Always attempt to connect' option reliably keeps the connection up, no matter what I am doing.
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~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Trouble-with-dsl-connection-22652892 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:06:36 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Trouble-with-dsl-connection-22652886 said by Its a Secret:

As you have a modem / router combo, make sure you allow pings from the WAN side, as your ISP needs to know if that connection is alive or not. That should make a huge difference in dropped connections.
Never made a difference with my connection. Like daveinpoway , I am with "at&t Yahoo! HSI".
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"In the future, that which is not mandatory will be illegal"
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better" - Anonymous]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Trouble-with-dsl-connection-22651849 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:18:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Trouble-with-dsl-connection-22651809 1) what OS is your boss using? (include version & service pack info as applicable)
2) when the connection drops, how long does it usually stay like that?
3) what are the lights on the DSL modem doing? (are all of them lit?)
4) what do the transceiver stats on the modem look like?
5) what do you see when you do an ipconfig /all (or ifconfig -a on Linux) when the connection drops? (what I am looking for here is what happens to the default gateway)
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Forget about DSL.

Get cable, meng !
Why?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Trouble-with-dsl-connection-22623210 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:15:29 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Trouble-with-dsl-connection-22622644
Get cable, meng !]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Trouble-with-dsl-connection-22622644 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:03:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Trouble-with-dsl-connection-22621229
I have Dos Batch files that I use to: Ping, Check IP addressing, etc. And when connection dropped I couldn't ping past the DSL Modem. Had to reboot all.

I found that somehow the DSL modem had the same IP address [192.168.x.x] as that of my Wireless AP and Router which was a Netgear.

Connection was - phone line to Modem and Modem to Netgear AP/Router.

And it seemed that the Actiontec was acting as a DHCP server.

Solution was to change the Netgear's [192.168.y.y] use of IP addresses to something other than what the Actiontec was using.

Was this my problem? Not sure but once I made changes - never had that problem again.
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