On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 12:17, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Friday 23 July 2004 06:14, phil wrote:
anyone with experience of how ADSL modems handle lightning!?
Better than the cheapest internal PSTN modem cards, but still not very well.
I think that my Dlink broke on Thursday nights lightning over Woodbridge. Either that or the DSLAM went down.
The D-Link is fine on the LAN side, but reports physical line errors on the WAN port. Zen weren't very good at answering the question of if there was a problem on the DSLAM, just said that their side of the DSLAM was fine.
So I've had to put the laptop in front of the laptop with the working dial-up modem (under Windows). I guess I should have prepared for this sort of thing- but the amount of attacks against Windows while downloading a 5Mb firewall was unbelievable.
Dial-up seems to be working at full speed for a 56K modem (connecting around the 48,000 bps rate ~ 35K without IP/PPP overhead). I thought that once ADSL was activated the voice portion of the line would reduce so that somewhere around 28k would be the top speed.
Oh well, this is the first outage in a year (other than a few dropped connections during planned maintenance).