Re: How best to resolve ADSL problems?

On 03 Mar 2006, nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (AnthonyL) wrote:

Anyone got any tips on how best to get to the bottom of the problem
installations?

Have you a router you can take round with you ? Quite a few have
status pages showing numbers for attenuation, CRC errors, and a
few other stats... From here I can check stats off a friend's router
down in Dover (and run the diagnostic test on it, too). If you're
all using USB modems life is less easy...
.

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