Strange phenomena !!!

I was watching Sky Satellite TV around 21-15 when suddenly I lost picture
and sound, just getting white noise. At the time the loss of signal
occurred there was a dull thud in the distance and the lights all dimmed for
an instant. Everything else seemed OK immediately afterwards but still just
white noise on SKY. The only button on the remote that seems to work OK is
the On/Off one. I cannot access anything , channels, services etc. I
suspected a short mains power interruption so came up to the computer to
check the router log. Ah! New log started at around 21-18 and my synch
rate is higher than it's ever been at 7200 kbps. (It was 6816 kbps earlier
and in all the time I've been with Plusnet I've never had a value higher
than 7016 kbps.)

"Test Results:
Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Your DSL connection rate: 7200 kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP profile for your line is - 6000 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 5417 kbps "

Now the loss of the day's earlier router log confirms that there was a power
outage, but why should it have upped the synch rate and decimated my Sat
TV? Usually around this time of night, if I reboot the router I'm lucky if
it will connect at more than 6464 kbps.

Looks like I won't be watching any more Satellite TV for a few days.
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Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°8 +

> Now the loss of the day's earlier router log confirms that there was a power
> outage, but why should it have upped the synch rate and decimated my Sat
> TV? Usually around this time of night, if I reboot the router I'm lucky if
> it will connect at more than 6464 kbps.

It may have killed a few devices that used to be connected to the
phone lines (like your sky box) thereby resulting in less line noise
overall ?

Colin Wilson wrote:
>> Now the loss of the day's earlier router log confirms that there was
>> a power outage, but why should it have upped the synch rate and
>> decimated my Sat TV? Usually around this time of night, if I
>> reboot the router I'm lucky if it will connect at more than 6464
>> kbps.
>
> It may have killed a few devices that used to be connected to the
> phone lines (like your sky box) thereby resulting in less line noise
> overall ?

Maybe, but I've managed to get the SKY box working again and I've still got
a synch rate of 7200 kbps - unprecedented for my set up. Not complaing
though since http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ is showing a d/l speed of
5906 kbps, Not seen anything above 5400 kbps before.
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> Maybe, but I've managed to get the SKY box working again and I've still got
> a synch rate of 7200 kbps - unprecedented for my set up. Not complaing
> though since http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ is showing a d/l speed of
> 5906 kbps, Not seen anything above 5400 kbps before.

You don't get particularly reliable results from a speed test website
- try installing a download manager (I use Orbit Downloader) and grab
an ISO from a site with decent speed, such as a ubuntu mirror - that
will give you a pretty good indicator of the max speed you can
download at !

Colin Wilson wrote:
>> Maybe, but I've managed to get the SKY box working again and I've
>> still got a synch rate of 7200 kbps - unprecedented for my set up.
>> Not complaing though since http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ is
>> showing a d/l speed of 5906 kbps, Not seen anything above 5400 kbps
>> before.
>
> You don't get particularly reliable results from a speed test website
> - try installing a download manager (I use Orbit Downloader) and grab
> an ISO from a site with decent speed, such as a ubuntu mirror - that
> will give you a pretty good indicator of the max speed you can
> download at !

Not too worried about accuracy or the actual value Colin, just commenting
on the fact it's better than I've ever seen here before. I actually have
NetPerSec and that showed a peak of 6.2 Mbits/sec whilst I was getting that
5906 kbps value.
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R. Mark Clayton wrote:
> "Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°8 +" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I was watching Sky Satellite TV around 21-15 when suddenly I lost
>> picture and sound, just getting white noise. At the time the loss
>> of signal occurred there was a dull thud in the distance and the
>> lights all dimmed for an instant. Everything else seemed OK
>> immediately afterwards but still just white noise on SKY. The only
>> button on the remote that seems to work OK is the On/Off one. I
>> cannot access anything , channels, services etc. I suspected a
>> short mains power interruption so came up to the computer to check
>> the router log. Ah! New log started at around 21-18 and my synch
>> rate is higher than it's ever been at 7200 kbps. (It was 6816 kbps
>> earlier and in all the time I've been with Plusnet I've never had a
>> value higher than 7016 kbps.)
>
> Sounds like a lightening strike not too far away. Probably tripped
> out and rebooted stuff all over, so your connection will be "fresh"
> not downrated to what ever it had got to.
>
> Buy some surge arresters for your kit (they only need to be near
> where they are plugged in) and power cycle your $ky box. It should
> reboot and if necessary download its software off air, unless is got
> a very big spike off the phone or mains.
>
>
>
> Once upon a time lightening struck about 250m away, destroying the
> chimney on a house.
>
> It also sent a huge spike into the phone system, knocking out part of
> the exchange. Two of my three lines came back within a day, but the
> third didn't. I was having a row with BT (having swapped lines
> shortly afterwards) when it became apparent that some of the kit at
> my end had been fried as well...

Thanks for that Mark
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