>
>
>>I haven't posted for a while
>>
>>
>And from that one must assume that Telecom did finally fix your line :)
>
Actually no...

What I did find is that if I stop polling the modem to see what its
external IP was (by telnetting to it with an expect script), then DSL
stays up much much longer than if I poll it every 2 minutes.

Perhaps there's some sort of memory leak ... but I found that it would
reboot (red light flashing etc) quite regularly if I left the script
running. Stopped it, and it was a lot happier.

And since telecom adjusted the error tolerances on everything, I (and
everyone else) get the same IP address 9 times out of 10 when dsl does
drop, and that's not all that often.

>>Someone came round and looked at it, and determined that the
>>problem was coming from the modem built into their sky decoder.
>>He was told it was causing a high resistance loop.
>>
>>
>
>That's a new one, Sky Decoder, whats the modem for?
>I guess we'll have to add this to the list of devices that may need a
>filter.
>
Pay-per-view movies.

>>So there you go. Draw your own conclusions.
>>
>>
>And did we have a filter on the modem or a splitter at the entry point?
>

3 filters on 2 phones and the decoder, I believe

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