On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Arun Khan wrote:
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Mehul Ved mehul.n.ved@gmail.com wrote:
I tried MTNL for a month and have decided to give it up because Hathway has upgraded their plans and are offering the same speed at same rate as I have for MTNL i.e. 1mbps ul for Rs999. But, with Hathway I have barely had any downtime compared to 4 days for MTNL in just 1 month. Also, with MTNL, I have been getting dial up like speeds for 1-2 hour quite randomly for no reason whatsoever. Overall I am not satisfied with the quality of connection from MTNL.
Agree lately, I have had some connectivity problems - during the morning hours, I have found that the modem is in disconnected state. Pulling out the DSL line and reconnecting usually solves it.
Check your wiring and replace with new ones if possible. Look for parallel phones. Even having a parallel phone connected (on-hook) loads the line. Replace old splitter with a new one.
Rony,
Thanks for pointing out the basics. My wiring setup is as per the instructions given by MTNL i.e. Twisted Pair line coming in to premise goes into the splitter, DSL port cable goes to DSL modem and Line port cable goes to the telephone.
I am pretty sure the problem is on the MTNL end. At this point, it is an annoyance I am willing to live with. About a couple of years ago the problem started off like this and eventually the DSL service failed and it got fixed with a fault complaint @ 198.
-- Arun Khan