THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU
To all of you who have offered invaluble advice to me.
I got myself a speedtouch 585, set it up and after a bit of messing about trying the router stats on that one and comparing to my netgear router I found that the speedtouch connected with a 15db margin whereas the netgear only 12db. Both fluctuated up and down at the peak periods but the thompson stayed connected where the netgear still kept dropping. So I decided the Thompson was the way to go. Connected at 3488kbps and that was 3 days ago (at 1.30pm today) and it is still connected!!! Hooray!! No drops (yet!). Keeping everything crossed it stays that way.
I now have the 3000kbps profile back that I had before everything went t1ts up!
The margin stays pretty much stable with little or no drops during most of the day and all night at 15db, drops down to about 10db between 7 and 8 in the mornings and around 5 to 11 evenings when it will fluctuate between about 13db and 9db, occasionally dropping to 6db. Is that pretty much par for the course?
I have listed the errors below over the 3 day up time (hooray again!), are they par for the course also? Couldn't get that info with the netgear!
Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 2,247 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 0
CRC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 135,268
HEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 46,716
I have read other posts about the setting of the margin, and from that I am guessing that if my connection stays stable for a while my margin would be reduced and thus possibly increase the connection and in turn my profile? Mind you I don't care now if it doesn't as long as it stays connected!
So THANKS again to you helpful people out there. Keep it up. You are appreciated!
Ian
By the way did I say THANKS? THANKS, THANKS AND THANKS AGAIN!