Anyone else having an issue keeping a connection?

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My line stays synced but the PPP connection seems unstable. Two days ago I came home to find the DSL light on but no internet, checked the router and it was synced but the router had no IP address. I rebooted it, worked fine first time, 5 minutes later the PPP connection dropped again and the line stayed synced. I had that issue all night, then yesterday it took one reboot and it was fine. Now I came home to find the same situation, but it seems okay for now.

It's kind of like the router is on dial on demand mode but it is set to always on. It happens with telkom and afrihost accounts. Router is a DLink DSL-2750U fw version AF_1.60_R01. Every time I check the logs on it when this happens it says "PPP: Start to connect ... " every 30-40 seconds or so, but never connects.

First time this has happened. Not sure if it's my side or if there's anything I can do about it.
Code: 
 Downstream Upstream 
Line Coding(Trellis): On  On  
SNR Margin (dB): 145  140  
Attenuation (dB): 440  255  
Output Power (dBm): 108  101  
Attainable Rate (Kbps): 6560  912  
Rate (Kbps): 2048  512
As I clicked post it happened again. This time I just unplugged the phone line and plugged it back in and it connected fine.

Here's the log:
Code: 
Jul 18 00:00:28 daemon notice syslog: PPP: Start to connect ...  

Jul 18 00:00:28 user info kernel: device wl0 entered promiscuous mode 

Jul 18 00:00:28 user info kernel: br0: port 5(wl0) entering forwarding state 

Jul 18 00:00:29 daemon crit syslog: PPP server detected.  

Jul 18 00:00:29 daemon crit syslog: PPP session established.  

Jul 18 00:00:29 user warn kernel: wp1=3c wp2=00 

Jul 18 00:00:29 user warn kernel: e127wp1=00 wp2=3c 

Jul 18 00:00:29 daemon crit syslog: PPP LCP UP.  

Jul 18 00:00:49 daemon crit syslog: Received valid IP address from server. Connection UP.  

Jul 18 00:01:00 user warn kernel: wp2=00 

Jul 18 00:01:01 user warn kernel: wp2=3c 

Oct 11 16:44:12 user alert kernel: Intrusion -> IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=41.235.213.190 DST=41.243.42.38 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=44 ID=47630 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4058 DPT=23 WINDOW=5808 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 MARK=0x8000000  

Oct 11 16:44:57 user alert kernel: Intrusion -> IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=186.236.128.148 DST=41.243.42.38 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=53 ID=4439 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2121 DPT=23 WINDOW=5808 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 MARK=0x8000000  

Oct 11 16:49:21 user alert kernel: Intrusion -> IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=60.191.153.156 DST=41.243.42.38 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=101 ID=256 PROTO=TCP SPT=6000 DPT=1433 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 MARK=0x8000000  

Oct 11 16:52:29 user alert kernel: Intrusion -> IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=42.121.236.2 DST=41.243.42.38 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=98 ID=256 PROTO=TCP SPT=6000 DPT=1433 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 MARK=0x8000000  

Oct 11 16:52:34 user alert kernel: Intrusion -> IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=122.225.106.165 DST=41.243.42.38 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=99 ID=256 PROTO=TCP SPT=6000 DPT=1433 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 MARK=0x8000000  

Oct 11 16:55:32 daemon crit syslog: Clear IP addresses. Connection DOWN.  

Oct 11 16:55:32 daemon crit syslog: Clear IP addresses. PPP connection DOWN.  

Oct 11 16:55:41 daemon notice syslog: PPP: Start to connect ...  

Oct 11 16:56:00 user crit kernel: Line 0: ADSL link down 

Oct 11 16:56:00 user warn kernel: bcmxtmcfg: XTM Link Information, portid = 0, State = DOWN, Service Support = ATM  

Oct 11 16:56:00 user warn kernel: bcmxtmcfg: Connection DOWN, LinkActiveStatus=0x0  

Oct 11 16:56:07 user crit kernel: Line 0: xDSL G.994 training 

Oct 11 16:56:11 user crit kernel: Line 0: ADSL G.992 started 

Oct 11 16:56:13 user crit kernel: Line 0: ADSL G.992 channel analysis 

Oct 11 16:56:17 user crit kernel: Line 0: ADSL link up, fast, us=512, ds=2048 

Oct 11 16:56:17 user warn kernel: bcmxtmcfg: XTM Link Information, portid = 0, State = UP, Service Support = ATM  

Oct 11 16:56:17 user warn kernel: bcmxtmrt: MAC address: 84 c9 b2 d7 a8 d0 

Oct 11 16:56:17 user warn kernel: [DoCreateDeviceReq.2367]: register_netdev 

Oct 11 16:56:18 user warn kernel: [DoCreateDeviceReq.2369]: register_netdev done 

Oct 11 16:56:18 user warn kernel: bcmxtmcfg: Connection UP, LinkActiveStatus=0x1, US=512000, DS=2048000  

Oct 11 16:56:18 daemon notice syslog: pppd 2.4.1 started by admin, uid 0 

Oct 11 16:56:18 daemon notice syslog: PPP: Start to connect ...  

Oct 11 16:56:27 daemon crit syslog: PPP server detected.  

Oct 11 16:56:27 daemon crit syslog: PPP session established.  

Oct 11 16:56:27 user warn kernel: wp1=3c wp2=00 

Oct 11 16:56:27 user warn kernel: e127wp1=00 wp2=3c 

Oct 11 16:56:27 daemon crit syslog: PPP LCP UP.  

Oct 11 16:56:27 daemon crit syslog: Received valid IP address from server. Connection UP.
 
Phone Telkom (or your ISP if your line is migrated) and ask them to do a port reset. This fixes more than 75% of problems, unless the problem is with your modem, phones, or filters, or other devices connected to your Telkom line.

If your line has been migrated to Afrihost, you can do a port reset yourself using the Client Zone. Pretty cool feature.

If that doesn't help, check out my blog post: How to diagnose ADSL line, speed & stability problems. It could prove useful.
 
^should probably do that considering we asked telkom to put us up to 1meg in line with the upgrades and instead they put us up to 2meg and phoned my dad and said we would be charged for 2meg. Thanks.
 
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