Frequent Lags and Disconnects With DSL

[CHESTER_72]

Hey guys. At our house we have Fast Access DSL through ATT. We are getting very frequent disconnects and lags. We have multiple devices running off of a single DSL modem/router. It has wireless and wired connections available. Our wireless devices disconnect as frequent as our wired devices do. We have called ATT many times. They have had us replace the DSL filters and did a line test outside our house which came back clear. However, when they run a line test while I am on the phone with them, they say they detect multiple errors on the line. We have replaced our DSL modem with a new one as well. It is a NETGEAR VersaLink Four Port Ethernet Wireless Gateway, Software VER:06.04.12. The self-diagnostics on the Modem come back clean with no problems detected. We get static on our phone line frequently as well.

Here is a screenshot of my modem's statistics page. Any help would be much appreciated.

http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv44/chestoncatalano/scrn/Statistics_zps92bf8a0f.png


In the technician readout part of my modem I also see this if it helps:



1 Manufacturer NETGEAR
2 Vendor ID b5004946544e449c
3 Model Number B90-755025-15
4 Friendly Name VersaLink
5 Model Description Four Port Ethernet Wireless Gateway
6 Model Name VersaLink
7 Serial Number ________
8 Hardware Version B90-755025-1515
9 Gateway DSL Firmware Version 4.4.9.12.1.1
10 Gateway Software Version VER:06.04.12
11 Hardware Options -
12 Software Options -
13 Gateway Configured true
14 Time Since Last Boot 3 days 19:16:06
15 Current Time 2013/01/17 04:46:11 GMT
16 Time Servers 68.94.156.17
68.94.157.2 ntp1.sbcglobal.net
ntp2.sbcglobal.net
17 Time First Use 2012/12/12 02:03:18 GMT

30 Gateway Health Status ok
31 DSL Link Status up
32 Time Since Last Sync 0 days 03:26:45
33 Loss of Signal true
34 Loss of Framing true
35 ATM Cell Delineation true
36 Internet Status up
37a Ethernet Link 1 Status down
37b Ethernet Link 2 Status up
37c Ethernet Link 3 Status down
37d Ethernet Link 4 Status up
38 PPP Connection Status connected
39 PPP Last Connection Error None
40 PPP Uptime 0 days 03:26:41


90 Active VCs provisioned 1
91 DSLAM Vendor Id __________
92 DSL Line Mode ADSL_G.dmt
93 DSL Training Mode Multimode
94 Conf VPI 8
95 Conf VCI 35
96 Conf PVC Search List 0/35, 8/35, 0/43, 0/51, 0/59, 8/43, 8/51, 8/59,
97 VPI 8
98 VCI 35
99 VC Encapsulation LLC
100 DSL Line Type INTERLEAVED
101 DSL Line Interleaved Depth 4
Rx Tx
140 Current Rate 3552 384
141 Previous Rate 3552 384
142 DSL Max Rate 716029 0
143 DSL Min Rate - -
144 Current ATTN DR 8092 604
145 Current SNRM 30.4 14.0
146 Current LATN 39.0 5.5
147 Current SATN 38.9 5.5
148 Current TP 19.8 10.5
15 Min 24 Hour Yesterday
160 Time Elapsed 777 69307 86400
161 Chan Received Blks 45758 4075797 5082462
162 Chan Transmitted Blks 45758 4075797 5082462
163 Chan Corrected Blks 0 9462 138
164 Chan Uncorrected Blks 0 153 138
165 HEC Vcnt 0 61 0
166 HEC Tcnt 6516773 580432994 723819158
167 HEC Ucnt 5317460 142251243 60283520
168 ICBE 0 0 0
169 LCD 0 0 0
170 NCD 0 0 0
171 CVL 0 153 0
172 LCD Tx 0 0 0
173 NCD Tx 0 0 0
174 CVL Tx 0 73 10
175 LOF 0 0 0
176 LOS 0 3 0
177 LOSS - - -
178 LOL - - -
179 LPR 0 0 0
180 ES 0 5 0
181 SESL 0 3 0
182 UASL 0 16 0
183 ECL 0 9462 138
184 ECSL 0 0 0
185 ECL Tx 0 127 34
186 Inits 0 1 0
187 FastR 0 0 0
188 Failed FastR 0 0 0
189 DSL Initialization Errors - - -
190 DSL Initialization Timeouts - - -
191 DSL Line Search Initializations - - -
192 DSL Loss of Margin Failures 0 0 0
193 ISP Connection Establishment - - -

210 VC ATM CoS ubr_pcr
211 VC ATM SCR -
212 VC ATM PCR -
213 VC ATM MCR -
214 VC ATM Burst Tolerance -
215 VC ATM CDV -
216 VC Max SDU 1540
217 ATM VC Receive Cells 47910032
218 ATM VC Receive PDUs 0
219 ATM VC Receive Frames 0
220 ATM VC Receive Octets 0
221 ATM VC Receive Errors 0
222 ATM VC Receive Discards 0
223 ATM VC No Receive Buffers -
224 ATM VC Transmit Cells
225 ATM VC Transmit PDUs 0
226 ATM VC Transmit Frames 0
227 ATM VC Transmit Octets 0
228 ATM VC Transmit Errors 0
229 ATM VC Transmit Discards 0
230 ATM VC Transmit Queue Full -
231 DSL Rate Mode DYNAMIC
232 Conf Target SNR Margin -

270 Internet Connection Type PPPoE
271 Gateway Configuration Four port Ethernet Wireless Gateway
272 NAPT Enabled true
293 PPP Connect Mode AlwaysOn
294 PPP Idle Timeout Never
295 Conf PPP Authentication Protocol chap pap
296 PPP Authentication Protocol chap
302 PPP MRU 1500
303 Conf PPP MTU 1492
304 LCP Echo 60
305 LCP Echo Retry 6



Loss of Signal true
Loss of Framing true
ATM Cell Delineation true

 

[wacabletech]

So the NID [in most cases grey phone box on the side of your house near power meter] has a test port, you can buy a LONG jumper run it to your modem and test it, if it stops going off line you have a n issue with your inside wiring, it may NOT be the line the modem is on , it may be another line another phone is on, the test port will require you disconnect the house wiring to use. If this fixes the issue [temporarily] either rewire your house phone, or have someone trouble shoot YOUR wires. Usually someone left pig tails on the outlet or screws in the NID and they are shorting out either on an unused pair or possible the primary pair. Sometimes there is corrosion where water got in, or a wire is damaged physically as well, and less commonly, a splice is loose, but it happens. Also alarm feedback can occur if their components are old and you have one even if its not active.

 

[CHESTER_72]

So the NID [in most cases grey phone box on the side of your house near power meter] has a test port, you can buy a LONG jumper run it to your modem and test it, if it stops going off line you have a n issue with your inside wiring, it may NOT be the line the modem is on , it may be another line another phone is on, the test port will require you disconnect the house wiring to use. If this fixes the issue [temporarily] either rewire your house phone, or have someone trouble shoot YOUR wires. Usually someone left pig tails on the outlet or screws in the NID and they are shorting out either on an unused pair or possible the primary pair. Sometimes there is corrosion where water got in, or a wire is damaged physically as well, and less commonly, a splice is loose, but it happens. Also alarm feedback can occur if their components are old and you have one even if its not active.

Thank you so much for the help, Waca. I will try out your troubleshooting tips and post back with the results. I figured it was probably something physical with the wire, but I didn't know if any of my router statistics would indicate exactly what it was.