On 2 May 2001, at 16:54, Chris Bidler wrote: > mjn wrote: > > > Yea. Murphy's kicks in when you are downloading a Linux image and the > > phone rings and your DSL modem mysteriously drops its connection. Every > > time the phone rings... > > > > Anyone else having this problem? I sure am.. > > You *do* have the little filter-dongles on all your phones, right? I have the same problem, and yes I've got dongles on all the phones. Except the one 900 MHz cordless that is plugged in to the router (the 675). I am assuming that it is internally filtered. I also notice that static-echo thing all the time, and being on the phone seems to have a detrimental effect on DSL connectivity. Also, it seems to go down with regularity about 25% of every weekend. Not 25% of weekends, 25% of EVERY weekend. That's great when you've got your friends over for some net party action and you can't use the internet for a good 4 hours. We used to call tech support every time there was a problem, but we got pretty tired of "Is it plugged in? Try doing 'nvram erase'". We had one tech that walked us through completely hosing our DSL setup. Good thing WE knew how to fix it. It was kinda funny to tell him exactly how he'd screwed everything up though. I think our techtalk lost HIM after about 2 minutes. ----------- Benjamin Exley The Minnesota Daily Information Systems Manager (612)627-4070 x3190