For the last month I have been having trouble with my connection to Orcon. The connection has been disconnecting at random times, and moreso when under load, like downloading a large Linux ISO over bittorrent. I’ve been back and forth with Orcon and Chorus several times, had line checks, tried different ADSL profiles, and even disconnected every device in the house. No joy. Same behaviour.
Snap Internet offered to help, and in a comedy of errors, Chorus ended up connecting us to Snap today incorrectly (it should have been via a second line). The upshot is, about 30 minutes ago our line was switched from Snap back to Orcon. I managed to start a test just before the line was switched.
Below is a picture of the speed graph from uTorrent. Let’s summarise:
- Same copper pair.
- Same ADSL router.
- Same jackpoint.
- Same computer.
- Same file.
- Same bittorrent peers.
- Different ISP termination in the Te Atatu Exchange.
You make your own conclusion:
Don’t be distracted by the higher speed on Orcon. Yes this implies a lower SNR, but we’ve tried changing the Orcon ADSL profile to reduce the speed and increase the SNR, but the disconnect behaviour is identical.
I believe there is a bigger story behind this, but I need to get Orcon’s opinion before I go to print with it.