Errored seconds

What rate of "errored seconds" should one reasonably expect on an ADSL line?
My router seems to get 1 ever couple of days. My friend seems to get
several every 15 seconds.
What is the general experience?

TIA
Chris

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> What rate of "errored seconds" should one reasonably expect on an ADSL line?
> My router seems to get 1 ever couple of days. My friend seems to get
> several every 15 seconds.
> What is the general experience?
>
> TIA
> Chris
>
>
>
My router (510v4) seems to log about 1 every hour (local end) and none
at all on the remote end.

I used to get errored seconds a lot when running my ST 530 on USB and it
really slows surfing down. A reboot would sort it out but not last very long
before it started again, perhaps a couple of hours, often much less.
I changed the connection to Ethernet and haven't had the problem since.
So I think it's really a USB problem --- it seems looking around the net
quite a few people get this errored seconds problem which leads to a slow
connection problem or irregular connection and I think one cause is the
quality of USB on the motherboard and also the chipset.
Some motherboards seem to connect a USB modem better than others -- they
should all be working on the same USB standard, but clearly they don't.
Another argument is that USB isn't the best type of connection for an adsl
connection. --- it's OK for quick downloads from a camera etc or sending
some files to a printer or external hard drive, but keeping a constant
connection to the internet via an adsl modem is over stretching USB.
I have seen messages saying that running the USB modem via a powered USB hub
can improve matters if you are getting slow speeds.

Chris Watts <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> What rate of "errored seconds" should one reasonably expect on an ADSL line?
> My router seems to get 1 ever couple of days. My friend seems to get
> several every 15 seconds.
> What is the general experience?

Errored seconds may only mean one error in that second, an utterly unnoticable event.
However, on my link it seems to vary from 4 to 62 per 15 minutes.
It seems to not be very affected by link margin which has varied from 3-12db
(4 miles out, 512K)

Thanks to all of you that responded.

My friend has been having trouble with an adsl line for some while.
Yesterday the service failed comletely - BT had disconnected it at the
exchange!
On reconnection the errored seconds dropped dramatically and the reliability
increased - I suspect a doddgy plug at the exchange or else they plugged it
back into a different socket.

Chris

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> What rate of "errored seconds" should one reasonably expect on an ADSL
line?
> My router seems to get 1 ever couple of days. My friend seems to get
> several every 15 seconds.
> What is the general experience?
>
> TIA
> Chris
>
>