ADSL Flat-Lining

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rockett

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I often have a problem with ADSL "flat-lining". Here is a picture of the Network chart in my Program Manager. I have a few programs that are connected to servers receiving live data all the time but they end up timing out because ADSL "flat-lines". Anybody else have this problem? Anybody have a solution?

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International - USA. Connecting to a futures broker in Chicago and a charting software company called eSignal (www.esignal.com) in California. It's possible that the charting company is routing prices through one of its European hubs. I also connect to several chat rooms via PalTalk and IRC.
 
Yup - just international - I would have a serious look at your line.
Maybee your splitter aint working properly, or, even better, somebody is tapping into your phone line, or, there's a loose-connection type problem on the line.
Plug a phone into the land line (before the splitter and other stuff), and listern to the line quality, press 1, and listern for an echo or a scraping noise...
Do the same after the splitter.
Then check for the flat line when the phone is off the hook - making that drrrr noise.
If the flat line appears when the phone is off the hook, and there is no noise or echo on the other 2 tests, then there must be a problem at the exchange - then - lucky you, you get to call teklom. weeeeeee.
Well - that's my guess, and it's worth a shot (IMHO).
 
Thanks for the ideas Stoke. I've had Telkom come out so many times to check the line and its quality etc. that I've lost count - I'm not saying that it isn't the quality but I can't face phoning Telkom again.

Before I call Telkom I have to visit my doctor and get anti-depressants and valium in order to cope with the people I speak to at Telkom and so I won't be able to call them until my next GP visit.
 
Mkay, couldn't agree more - send $izwe the bill - another long shot - borrow somebody else's modem and c what it does - alternatively, confrm that you're not running some wierd bandwidth sapping program - like a worm or sumthing. Try to put a bandwidth monitor between u and the modem.
 
Good idea about the modem stoke - I can run 2 network connections at the same time over the same line 1. ADSL and 2. dialup through the filter.
I can then see if the dialup connection is experiencing the same flat-lines from the dialup computer as one of the other computers that will still be going through the ADSL connection.
That should rule out (or confirm) line quality shouldn't it?
 
Na - me speaks gibberish - twaz late. What I meant with modem is ADSL modem/router, i.e. rule out the ADSL modem/router as the cause.
A normal modem should proove that it's not the rest of the network causing the problem. But it won't proove bugger all about your line quality.

I don't even know which province (what are they called now?) Scottsville is in - lol.
Anybody else here in scotsland ?
 
Aah - the district of Kwa Zulu Natal - or has that been renamed? Anyways - i'm all out of ideas. I had similar problems once (2001), but they dissapeared when I moved my "Office" to a different room. But, I did a lot of things at that time, including running all my equipment on UPS's, including the ADSL router. This one's a beeauch.

What worries me is that teklom have been there and have apparently found nothing wrong. There has got to be another user in scottsville with similar problems.
 
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