Why do I have to unplugging my Router from the phone line??

I have been experiencing a phenomenon for the last couple of years where the
ASDL connection is getting dropped and a quick re-boot of the router does
not fix it. The only thing that seems to recover my connection is to
disconnect the from the phone line for at least 5 minutes and only then
reconnect and re-power the router (Mentor ALSL/MR4-UK).
Is there something at the DSLAM/exchange end which needs this time to
recover from a trip-out before the connection can be recovered? The phone
line works fine for voice throughout the disconnection.

Steve

steveharvey [at] dsl [dot] pipex [dot] com

On 7-Jun-2006, "Steve Harvey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> The only thing that seems to recover my connection is to
> disconnect the from the phone line for at least 5 minutes and only then
> reconnect and re-power the router

Re-power the router? So maybe a chip in the router is
running hot, you switch it off for 5 minutes, sufficient
for it to cool down, all comes good again?

> Re-power the router? So maybe a chip in the router is
> running hot, you switch it off for 5 minutes, sufficient
> for it to cool down, all comes good again?

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Not very likely. More likely there is a reservoir capacitor in the DC
power supply which retains its charge for a time after the supply has
been switched off. CMOS memory chips don't take much current.

The thing keeps on working after a fashion until the capacitor has
discharged itself. There's probably nothing defective.
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> I have been experiencing a phenomenon for the last couple of years
> where the ASDL connection is getting dropped and a quick re-boot of
> the router does not fix it. The only thing that seems to recover my
> connection is to disconnect the from the phone line for at least 5
> minutes and only then reconnect and re-power the router (Mentor
> ALSL/MR4-UK). Is there something at the DSLAM/exchange end which needs
> this time to
> recover from a trip-out before the connection can be recovered? The
> phone line works fine for voice throughout the disconnection.

See if you can borrow a good quality router such as a Draytek or the like
and try it. Mentor are very low end generic routers that are not noted for
their performance or quality.


Peter Crosland