[Gllug] Two Adsl Connections

[Peter Childs]

Russell Howe wrote:

>On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 08:52:41AM +0100, Peter Childs wrote:
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>>   BT decided that they would upgrade all bussiness connections to 
>>2048kbs for free this seamed like a good idea to us as we were planning 
>>to upgrade anyway.
>>   Since we were upgraded we have been losing packets
>>    
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>
>If your ISP is dropping packets, then having two lines will probably
>just mean that you drop twice as many!
>
>I would collect some performance statistics about the packet loss and
>send them to BT, stating that if things don't improve pronto, you're
>taking your business elsewhere.
>
>That said, I would be more suspicious of the ADSL box than of BT. Does
>your DSL modem produce information on the quality of the line?
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>

    We're using a Netgear DM602 ADSL router rather than the BT ADSL USB 
modem, I'll try getting the speedtouch modem up tonight if you think it 
will help, but we were using a different modem because it kept our life 
simpler.
    Could it be due to office cabeling, I know the last 30 or so meters 
is rather dodgy.

>A tool such as mtr will show you where the packet loss is occurring,
>which might help you to pinpoint the problem. Also, you could probably
>use something like cacti to quickly set up some monitoring, with graphs.
>
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    I'll try and see if I can get more info. We never got this problem 
before the upgrade which is why I'm tending to blame BT.

Peter Childs
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