..internet connection dropping out every day/night, sometimes 2 to 3 times per day..
Been getting disconnects since I got home. Anybody else? Restart router works again. Stops again. Rinse repeat. Driving me crazy.
I've had same scenario for many weeks, especially since the upgrade to 2Mbps. As I also have @lantic / Vox login details in my router, wrote to them about it on 30th Jan. An agent phoned to advise it was Telkom, and gave me an e.g. of a client in another province that the same thing was happening to, possibly due to distance from the exchange or maybe allied reason I don't remember now.
At the time I put it down to much the same thing, as my Attenuation (Down) is & always has been high at 54 + I believe I'm close to 5kms away from the exchange. Contacted Telkom & couldn't get anywhere with them - after a while, they don't bother even giving feedback to requests to, eg. being moved to another exchange, so I've accepted having to re-boot router a few times a day.
If I switch on router first, then PC, sometimes the PC starting up disconnects the router & it restarts on its own ; often when it boots up, "internet" light goes to red & stays there permanently, until I try another reboot, sometimes two or three one after the other. Other times it'll be on for hours, and suddenly "internet" light will simply go to red.
Don't know who's to blame - all I know is this never used to happen when we were on blazing-fast 384kbps, then on 1Mpbs - only started since upgrades to 2Mpbs, so we'd need someone with insight as to what's going on a Telkom, or perhaps VOX, as ISP ?
Pisses me off as well, I'm afraid.
Here's where I first mentioned it :
By the way, I'm sure I've not been moved to a different exchange, as Attenuation still exactly the same.
Only been giving issues since about 10pm. Been streaming all weekend without hassle though, first real issues I've picked up since signing up a couple of weeks ago.