On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 07:22 -0800, Patrick J. Timlick wrote: > I had similar trouble with my WRT54G v1 running DD_WRT. I was also having > other problems with my Verizon DSL, usually DNS would quit. I often had to > power cycle the Westel 7500 DSL modem to the internet back again. Finally I > got Verizon to come out, they hooked me up to a higher power line at the > office, changed by outside connection box, and reran the modem line.
> The > Verizon tech said that slow deterioration is the symptom of a line being > driven beyond its capacity. This is hard to understand... This is a copper line.... The insulation could fail... The connections could fail... When you run 20 Amps through a 15 Amp connection.. Now the copper fails..Burns insulation and pops the circuit breaker.. Or melts/welds the copper if you can pull enough amperage... Just random thoughts.. Linux-yug.. > Now everything is solid, and my connection is > closer to what was advertised. I haven't had to power cycle either one > since Verizon came out. > > > -- Patrick Timlick > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Joe Pruett wrote: > > > > > just in case you haven't done this, make sure that the firmware is > > current. > > > > Joe, > > > > Hmmm-m-m. I didn't know that I could upgrade firmware in this unit. I'll > > look into this later today. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
