A simple call and my problems seem to be fixed!

[Flanders]

And no, it wasn't to Telkom []

I'd been having this problem since I was connected in around September. At the first sign of lightning in the air...even at quite a distance away, my connection would drop and most weekends, especially Sundays for some reason I would not have a connection at all. Not only drop but would become impossible to reconnect. I would have a flashing green link light on the modem and powering down or resetting the modem would be useless. Everything I tried did absolutely nothing...still flashing link. The problem would persist until the following day at IP change. I discovered recently that all I needed to do was simply to make a telephone call on the line and viola!...fixed! The call need not be answered, I found that simply ringing my own cell once then hanging up reset the modem properly. I'm certainly no techie so I have no idea why this works, but it does. It is the standard ADSL router POTS (ethernet) modem.

 

[vincent]

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<br />I discovered recently that all I needed to do was simply to make a telephone call on the line and viola!...fixed! The call need not be answered, I found that simply ringing my own cell once then hanging up reset the modem properly. I'm certainly no techie so I have no idea why this works, but it does. It is the standard ADSL router POTS (ethernet) modem.

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Do you need to do this on a regular basis or was the problem permanently fixed after you did it once ? Seems to me it might be a filtering problem...

Vincent

 

[mbs]

Sounds to me also like a filtering problem - frequency 'leakage'. If it's a Telkom POTS router take it back to them to swap-out for another unit...

 

[Flanders]

vincent,

every time I lose connection, usually during storm activity I have to do this...but it has worked every time. Far fewer cursing outbursts and urging to destroy hardware[]

 

[vincent]

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<br />vincent,

every time I lose connection, usually during storm activity I have to do this...but it has worked every time. Far fewer cursing outbursts and urging to destroy hardware[]
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Indeed seems like a filtering problem or perhaps a faulty line to the pole. Do you get any noise on your normal voice calls- under normal circumastances and/or during a storm ? A while back I had noise problems on my line which caused frequent modem disconnects (before I got adsl) and it turned out to be a bad wire to the pole. The fact that you frequently seem to lose connection also points to a line problem, if it's not the router itself.

Vincent