[Gllug] ADSL modem -- WTF?

[adam at thebowery.co.uk]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:58:55PM +0100, Amias Channer wrote:
> 
> Maybe you should ask the BT engineers to turn up the gain on your line .

Turning the gain up on the line isn't going to stop the router crashing as it 
wasn't the ADSL that was dying (and even if it was a problem with the ADSL
line it shouldn't cause the router to crash and have to be hard reset it
should just sit there flash lights and put something in the logs). It was the 
wireless that was the problem. I finally had to upgrade to firmware 1.05 as 
the wireless was dying with all of the old firmwares (and with some of them it
was crashing the router I presume). It still appears to crash the wireless but 
at least re-enables it after a couple of minutes with the new firmware. 

I am still rather unimpressed as it still hasn't beaten the uptime of my old 
router which was an mini-itx machine with a pci prism 2.5 wireless card in and
one of those usb green alcatel frog modems I used to routinely get uptimes 
around 90 days and the main reason that it didn't go on for longer was because 
the downtime was either kernel upgrades or power cuts, I would have reinstated
the old box and sent the dg834g back if I hadn't reused the hardware elsewhere.

Adam
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