Connection drops
Connection drops
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My connection drops a little now and then. The ADSL light starts blinking and I gotta pull power plug to get a new signal from my ISP again.
Could you please see if there is something wrong in my system diagnostics?
Thanks,
Oskar
My connection drops a little now and then. The ADSL light starts blinking and I gotta pull power plug to get a new signal from my ISP again.
Could you please see if there is something wrong in my system diagnostics?
Thanks,
Oskar
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Re: Connection drops
You need to defragment your environment. Also, your US margin is low, but I don't think that either of these is the cause of the problem. It may just be that your connection speed is too high for you to maintain a stable connection.
Run this code from a telnet/ssh login sessionThe DSL_FEATURE_CNTL_0 setting trades connection speed for stability. If it doesn't help, then you can delete it
You may also want to enable check-sync in the "RT Configurations" page.
Run this code from a telnet/ssh login session
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setenv DSL_FEATURE_CNTL_0 0x03000000
setenv DEFRAG DEFRAG
/sbin/reboot
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unsetenv DSL_FEATURE_CNTL_0
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Re: Connection drops
I'm so happy I foud this site! I'm ordering the RT mug to show some love
I ran degrag now.
Also I noticed just after the connection died again the error log looked different.
Crossing my fingers it will hold up better now.
Thanks
I ran degrag now.
Also I noticed just after the connection died again the error log looked different.
Crossing my fingers it will hold up better now.
Thanks
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Re: Connection drops
I'm sure the mug would look cool on your desk!
The diagnostics still show the environment as fragmented as it was before. Did you run all the commands that I gave above? If so, then nothing seems to have happened (possibly because the environment is still badly fragmented). You should run this (from telnet) before doing anything elseAnd then run these commands (also from telnet)
And what is going on here?
The diagnostics still show the environment as fragmented as it was before. Did you run all the commands that I gave above? If so, then nothing seems to have happened (possibly because the environment is still badly fragmented). You should run this (from telnet) before doing anything else
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setenv DEFRAG DEFRAG
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setenv DSL_FEATURE_CNTL_0 0x03000000
/sbin/reboot
What exactly is your set-up?Upstream rate (kbps): 0
Downstream rate (kbps): 0
WAN uptime: N/A
WAN IP address: N/A
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Re: Connection drops
Mug is on it's way
I forgot to mention that the previous log was before I ran defrag, just after the connection died.
It looks much better now
I forgot to mention that the previous log was before I ran defrag, just after the connection died.
It looks much better now
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Re: Connection drops
Connection just died again
Could my router fiddle with the modem? I have the MTU set to 1492.
Could my router fiddle with the modem? I have the MTU set to 1492.
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Re: Connection drops
You have not done this.thechief wrote:And then run these commands (also from telnet)Code: Select all
setenv DSL_FEATURE_CNTL_0 0x03000000 /sbin/reboot
You have not answered this.thechief wrote:What exactly is your set-up?
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Re: Connection drops
Ah, I ran unsetenv DSL_FEATURE_CNTL_0.
Changed to "setenv DSL_FEATURE_CNTL_0 0x03000000" now.
My setup is the DSL-320T in bridge mode to a DLINK DIR-655 router that does the PPPoE connection. My neighbour has the same setup, modem in bridge mode and same router and also gets connection drops once or twice a day so it might just be the ISP.
I did notice however when using the old Thomson Speedtouch router that was provided by the ISP the connection rarely drops. I prefer not to use that router though as my ISP has put a locked custom firmware on it where I can't even turn off the default WEP wifi connection.
Changed to "setenv DSL_FEATURE_CNTL_0 0x03000000" now.
My setup is the DSL-320T in bridge mode to a DLINK DIR-655 router that does the PPPoE connection. My neighbour has the same setup, modem in bridge mode and same router and also gets connection drops once or twice a day so it might just be the ISP.
I did notice however when using the old Thomson Speedtouch router that was provided by the ISP the connection rarely drops. I prefer not to use that router though as my ISP has put a locked custom firmware on it where I can't even turn off the default WEP wifi connection.
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Re: Connection drops
I don't understand this. If the DIR-655 provides the pppoe connection, then why do you need the 320T? I would have thought that the 320T should provide the pppoe (WAN) connection, while the DIR-655 provides the LAN (wired and wireless) services?azkurz wrote:My setup is the DSL-320T in bridge mode to a DLINK DIR-655 router that does the PPPoE connection.
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Re: Connection drops
Thats how I had it before. I had the PPPoE setup in the modem and then the DIR-655 set to DHCP. But I asked if it was better to have the modem set to bridge mode and then let the router handle the login and routing here viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3754.
So I switched to bridge mode.
Connection was still dropping with the old settings as well.
So I switched to bridge mode.
Connection was still dropping with the old settings as well.
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Re: Connection drops
Yes - but there are things that you can do with RouterTech firmware to address that problem - e.g., the "setenv DSL_FEATURE_CNTL_0 0x03000000" fix, enabling sync checking, trying different modulations, or even going for a firmware version with a more recent DSP driver. With your current set-up, nothing that you do with the 320T is going to help.azkurz wrote:Connection was still dropping with the old settings as well.
I know nothing about bridging, so I don't know whether your current set-up is the best.
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Re: Connection drops
DLink dir655 is going to be much more powerful for nat routing wireless N etc - the 320T is a 2MB flash, 8MB ram 1-port modem. The dir doesn't have an ADSL port, so always needs an Ethernet modem. Offloading the modem of memory intensive nat tasks makes sense to me - but unless the modem is running out of ram and crashing its not going to make any difference. I don't know anything about the dir 655 - can you even see the modem web gui when in full bridge mode?
Re: Connection drops
Could it be that full bridge mode is not really supported by the DSL-320T that causes it to crash?
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Re: Connection drops
I thought you were talking of connections being dropped. Where does crashing come into it?
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Re: Connection drops
Sorry for not being clear. I'm not back to PPPoE instead of bridge mode on the modem and my connection has been running fine for 12 hours
Thanks again for the support, my new router tech mug is hot! :
Thanks again for the support, my new router tech mug is hot! :