What the hell is going on?

[LeafMuncher]

Lately I've been having major issues with my line not syncronising at all most of the time (as in zero connection from Saturday until Thursday), and it's now intermittent... I was syncing perfectly stable at 7Mb/s until Saturday morning (since September) then had nothing until yesterday it came online at 5MB/s (annoyed at the speed drop but happy to have something at least), It stayed fine at 5MB/s even when restarting after load shedding this morning, then this evening it started to resynch every few minutes or seconds, jumping between 200Kb/s and 2.5Mb/s downstream speed

Right now it's sitting at 6Mb/s (first time seeing it above 2.5 so far) with the following sync stats (though I assume it's going to drop any moment again). SNR and Attenuation are staying roughly the same regardless of the different sync speeds


Downstream Upstream
SNR Margin 18.5 dB 15.0 dB
Line Attenuation 32.5 dB 23.5 dB


Connecting a phone to either port on the splitter results in a soft dial tone, loud static and what I can only describe as the sound of a robot having an argument with a jammed printer

 

[Johnatan56]

Noise on the line, open a fault.

 

[sapr3.techie]

I have been experiencing exactly the same symptoms. I was synching happily for 2/3 years at 10MB/s. Last week it dropped to 9544KB/s and now it is stuck on 8422KB/s even after powering on and off for several days and not authentication to any ISP.

I logged a faultl on Monday and it was closed on Friday with SMS message 'service restored' despite still having no ADSL at all. Immediately logged another fault and now the big wait....