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[tickmike]

I have been having lots of drop-outs today with 'No DSL' connection then drop out again, again etc. warm re-starts, cold re-starts did no good, been having few problems for some time .
It was time to phone up 'Eclipse' and he said the logs looked ok to him and then asked how old my router was, 6 years speedtouch 536 and I told him I had been trying Netgear DG483GT and he said how old they were. pass ?, off freecycle.

He then said until I get a newer type of router he could not do anything     what 

I notice tonight I had some more problems and it said Eclipse's DNS sever were down !.

What can I do .? Do you think it could be a hardware problem ?.

My stats.

   
DSL Connection   

   Link Information

Uptime:   0 days, 0:40:07

Modulation:   G.992.1 Annex A

Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:   448 / 3,328

Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [KB/KB]:   0.00 / 0.00

Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]:   12.5 / 18.5

Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:   29.5 / 50.0

SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]:   18.0 / 7.0

Vendor ID (Local/Remote):   TMMB / IFTN

Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):   0 / 0

Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):   0 / 0

Loss of Power (Local/Remote):   0 / 0

Loss of Link (Remote):   0

Error Seconds (Local/Remote):   4,529 / 0

FEC Errors (Up/Down):   0 / 103,550

CRC Errors (Up/Down):   0 / 0

HEC Errors (Up/Down):   0 / 0

[HPsauce]

Old Netgear routers are prone to capacitor failure. I can't imagine others are immune.
And firmware updates "might" be better on newer kit, though Netgear do actually have a fairly good record on fixes.

[Ronski]

I had the original DG834 and only replaced it when I changed to FTTC in 2012. IIRC it was about 9 years old,  I may be wrong, although I do remember changing when ADSL2+ came out to  a V4 I think,  the  V1 was unstable with  2+, something to do with the chipset. That said old things can develop faults,  I take it Eclipse won't send you a new one FOC like a lot of ISPs would?

[tickmike]

Old Netgear routers are prone to capacitor failure. I can't imagine others are immune.
And firmware updates "might" be better on newer kit, though Netgear do actually have a fairly good record on fixes.

Yes I have replaced some of the capacitors in some of them !.

I had the original DG834 and only replaced it when I changed to FTTC in 2012. IIRC it was about 9 years old,  I may be wrong, although I do remember changing when ADSL2+ came out to  a V4 I think,  the  V1 was unstable with  2+, something to do with the chipset. That said old things can develop faults,  I take it Eclipse won't send you a new one FOC like a lot of ISPs would?

I did try to get them to send a replacement.