[Klug-general] Modem information requested.

[Peter]

I'm still chugging along on a dial up modem so I don't know much about 
ADSL but as a general principle when 3 components fail the same way 
there's likely to be a reason. Try the modem on someone else's machine. 
Get your telephone line checked. Do anything that doesn't cost anything 
and could give a clue to what's wrong. You may have been unlucky but 
don't assume it.

Peter

Sharon Kimble wrote:

>I'm getting modem connection problems again to my ISP on an ADSL line. Last 
>evening they admitted that they were having problems on their status page, 
>but the modem also seems to have quit at some stage during then night.
>
>Last year I went through two modems, a netgear dg834 I think it was which cost 
>me about £120, and then a D-Link DSL-300T for about £70. Both of them seemed 
>to die because of overheating, they were both kept on a wooden shelf of my 
>computer desk where the heat from the backend of my box was partially trapped 
>under the desk.
>
>Now this current modem, another DSL-300T seems to be also showing the same 
>symptoms of intermittent connection, which I take to mean of impending death! 
>This time it should not be overheating causing it, as it sits on the floor of 
>the hall where the average temperature is about 17'c, and the coldest its got 
>so far this winter is 15'c.
>
>So now I'm looking for another ADSL modem to connect to my system/network 
>which is not wifi, and will last! Can anyone suggest any good makes and 
>models please, that I can possibly order online?
>
>Hopefully thanks
>Sharon.
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