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Ok i've had it with my connection keep dropping out in a weird way and wondered if you guys can help.


I live in chelmsford, essex in the UK and have an AOL 1Mb connection using the BT Voyager 100 ADSL USB Modem

My problem is that after a while (especially in the last 2 weeks but has happened alot before) pages will not load up and i do not have any in or out going data (i get this information by lookign at uTorrent )

[DAMNIT it just done it again ] However the DSL monitor shows two green arrows (indicating a live good connection)

To 'fix' my connection i have to tell the AOL dialler (some other crappy bloated peice of shit, found here "C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\ACS\AOLDial.exe" if you wanted to know) to disconnect after its finished thinking about disconnecting thought about spam and then remembered that i told it to disconnect it disconnects, i then have to tell it to connect again going through the same shit.

I thought that it possibly could have been my phone line socket as my dad doesn't seem to experience the same troubles (on a different computer in a different room) but i have no idea how to 'test it' as such.

This is driving me mental, We're planning on switching over to talk talk broadband and buying a Belkin wireless modem so as to network the PC's Laptops (and my psp) would this fix this issue?

Any ideas as to a fix would be great.

thanks

Does it drop at any random times?
Cos we have ad the same problem. The BT man came round and put the line into another box. And now it has worked fine
Hope this helps,
Nathan

its just DSL as far as i know and yes pretty random

by the way what do you mean other box

Like another phone connection port. Where all your other phones connect.

thing is it does connect to the interenet, as you can see i'm posting this now

however i'd think that they'd come over fiddle with the wires whatever and then ask me to test i'd connect woo diddy woo he's leave and then I'd get cut off again ¬_¬

MY dad doesn't spend very long on the internet so i couldn't really tell you if the problem affects his pc also

unfortunatley he like most people automatically assumes its a problem with my computer and acuses me of doing too much on it at once and fucking ti about he knows nothing about tech, earlier i had to show him how to delete an email

:/
Well it let me connect as well afterwards. So I still think its worth a try

Dad just said that he could ask one of his work team to test the signal strength between all the connections when they have some time spare

woo diddy lmao

Anways, switching providers could help.

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Originally posted by aNILEator
earlier i had to show him how to delete an email

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Haha, My dads like that, he thinks having a 15" monitor slows his pc down

have you checked that al the filters on the phones in your house are plugged in??

And try swapping a filter you know works with the one thats dodgy (the one your getting interent off).
My mums like that too
She reckons she knows so much but she doesnt and she blames me for anything that goes wrong