I always get connection problems during the evening where the connection cuts out, Speedtouch icon on the taskbar goes yellow, the lights on the modem blink for a bit, then the icon goes green again and the lights stop blinking, and I have to reconnect. It's as if I pulled the modem out and put it back in, and it's annoying, but I think it might be LLU related.


However, recently around 20:00 each night I get a problem where it won't reconnect no matter what I do. When I try to connect using Speedtouch, the window either goes 'The authentication process...' or 'Verifying username and password...' then just sticks there for about thirty seconds. Then it stops and comes up with 'The remote server failed to respond in a timely manner.' (Possibly not exact quote, this is off memory.)

I can try and connect over and over and that is all that happens. Troubleshooting using Dr Speedtouch just tells me there's no PPP and to check my username/password is correct (on a sidenote, that program is incredibly useless!)

If I try 'ipconfig/release' or 'ipconfig/renew' I get the message that 'The operation failed as no adapter is currently in the state permissible for this operation'.

It usually sorts itself out by the morning, but it is very annoying when I do most of my homework at night.

I'm on the Bromley exchange and use a Speedtouch 330, and have been a victim of the dreaded 8MB upgrade...And no, switching broadband is not an option. It's my parents' house.