DSL Line goes down frequently in AT&T Southwest http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23299766 en Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:17:04 EDT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:17:04 EDT DSL Line goes down frequently http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,23299766 sharam : I subscribe to AT&T DSL Elite that is supposed to have a downstream speed of up to 6 Mbps and upstream speed of up to 768 Kbps. My DSL line goes down very frequently and I lose my internet connection for a few minutes and it comes up by itself, and I get a new dynamic IP address. This is very annoying if especially if you are in a middle of a Webex session, or an IP call. When the internet connection is reestablished I often don’t get the full Elite speeds.

I have a dedicated line for my DSL. It is a Cat 5 cable going from AT&T’s box outside to my modem. I don’t have any phones on the DSL line.

My modem is Motorola 3347 and it is the third modem that AT&T has replaced, so I think that rules out any modem problem. Their technicians have been out many times and when they are at my house they signals are clean.

If I reboot the modem I get good performance for a few hours and the DSL deteriorates again.

Any help you can provide me is much appreciated.

Here is my test history:

»/testhistory/1571455/56bc7

Here is some stats from my modem:

ADSL Line State: Up
ADSL Startup Attempts: 160
ADSL Modulation: DMT
ADSL Data Path: Fast
Datapump Version: DSP 7.5.2.202, HAL 7.5.2.1

Downstream Upstream
---------- ----------
SNR Margin: 11.50 7.00 dB
Line Attenuation: 24.00 13.50 dB
Output Power: 0.00 11.90 dBm
Errored Seconds: 0 0
Loss of Signal: 0 1972
Loss of Frame: 0 0
CRC Errors: 373 460
Data Rate: 4704 704

This is what happens after I reboot the modem:

ADSL Line State: Up
ADSL Startup Attempts: 1
ADSL Modulation: DMT
ADSL Data Path: Fast
Datapump Version: DSP 7.5.2.202, HAL 7.5.2.1

Downstream Upstream
---------- ----------
SNR Margin: 18.20 18.00 dB
Line Attenuation: 22.00 11.50 dB
Output Power: 0.00 11.92 dBm
Errored Seconds: 0 0
Loss of Signal: 0 0
Loss of Frame: 0 0
CRC Errors: 0 1
Data Rate: 6016 768

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