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#192155 29-Feb-2016 10:24
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So I was one of the first to get VDSL, I've had it a long time. Over that time, during times of strange and pretty wet weather my DSL Sync goes crazy, resyncing. This doesn't happen every time, maybe 1 in 10 times it rains. Last winter it happened 2-3 times. It happened on Sunday morning.

 

I am in Mt Roskill in Auckland. 

 

I have a master filter, installed by Chorus, and recently before an outage my line switched over to Band 988 and I was for about 20 days, getting 70/30Mbps. I had the fault which happened over a period of 3 days, but when I opened a case with my ISP, it took Chorus 8 days to get onsite  and by then the fault had pretty much resolved itself. Regardless the tech despite me asking him not to, changed my port. now I am sitting at around 48/10. 

 

My belief is that the problem appears to be between my demarc, and the street. I don't think it's too much further from that because I was originally connected to an exchange, and now am connected very close to a cabinet.

 

Sunday it happened again after it had rained very heavily on Saturday night and seemed to get better as the day went on. The outage lasted about 4 hours. I saw syncs as low as 20/2 and as high as 48/10.

 

My ISP said they would open a case but didn't have any hope that Chorus would take the matter seriously. 

 

How do I get Chorus to examine the line between my street and my house for breaks or splits in the waterproofing etc?

 

Any advice appreciated.


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  #1522277 29-Mar-2016 15:32
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pjamieson:

 

RSP's can do up to 24Hrs.  Chorus can do up to 7 Days and Techs can call in and ask for this.  It's pretty rare, but maybe in an extreme intermittent situation it could be warranted.

 

Is the issue resolved Andre?

 

 

 

 

Hi. After a few days and a few follow ups, it seems there was FRE (Fault-related Event) further up the chain which had no ETA for a fix, but was confirmed fixed a few days later. Not entirely convinced, but haven't had any issues. 

 

The thing that makes this difficult, is my RSP isn't open weekends or later at night which is as murphy's law would have it, when my connection typically goes down. 

 

As this doesn't happen every time it rains (and often many months in between), I understand it could be difficult to get to the bottom of, but the pattern and symptoms are always consistent (drop outs frequently, wild DSL speed fluctuations ( As reported by the modem) over a period of hours and days).

 

I will just monitor and see what happens.

 

Thanks for following up.


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