Over the summer my connection was not too bad and operated at around 4mb which is good in the area I live, as I am quite a way from the exchange. However, for the last six weeks or so every evening I get dropouts from 6.30pm onwards and this continues overnight. I can understand congestion when people come home from work and kids come home from school, but what on earth is happening at 2.30am? Some nights it will only stay up for a second or too. Also on reconnection I initially get a PPP error which I have come to take for granted. How can Orange continue to offer such an appalling service?
It needs to be said that one of the problems with ADSL around the world is its use of the AM radio band frequency range, which makes it subject to potential interference from AM radio. Many other electrical sources (e.g. low voltage lights, heating pumps and speakers) can also cause impulse interference that affects stability. This is one reason for rate adaptive ADSL, so that during periods of noise, an ADSL modem will disconnect and re-negotiate a speed that can be sustained, and is less susceptible to the interference. One thing many people are not aware of is that the time of day is a big factor in the reliability, since during the hours of darkness the interference mentioned above can often be worse. As the nights draw in, people who have had lines that were stable for 6 months may find things become more unreliable
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