Had a lot of internet disconnections. The ADSL signal on my modem would light up and in 3 minutes, go off. At first I called up Singnet, my ISP. Firstly, a woman answered and asked me to troubleshoot it by connecting the modem directly to the wall without a microfilter. She said if it didn’t solve the problem, she would assign a technician to come to my house and do a line test.
The problem didn’t go away. So I called again, this time, a man. To keep the story short, he checked the logs and could tell I kept disconnecting. So he assigned a tech to come on Tuesday to do the line test. I was thinking, what if the problem went away Tuesday morning and came back Tuesday night?
I give up anyway. This isn’t the first time they’ve been giving me an instable connection.
So I decided to open up my modem since it’s 3 years old, warranty’s probably expired. And since I never used the wireless feature, I removed the PCMCIA wireless card inside. And proceeded to leave it running on my desk. Hmmm… No more disconnections.
Which reminds me of a similar case which happened in my office a few months ago. Our ADSL modem kept losing signal and disconnecting every 3~5 minutes. I called up the ISP, who immediately sent a technician down to do a line test. The technician didn’t have any problems and we concluded it was the modem that malfunctioned. We had it replaced and the problem was gone.
Perhaps my modem is failing too. Nice timing, I was going to upgrade my connection plan to a 10Mbps ADSL2+ line soon anyway.
I think overheating is causing the problems.
This morning when I came into the office, I noticed the earbuds of my earphones are being eaten off!! There’s no clue of what the suspect is… Perhaps termites? I immediately discarded the cardboard box that my earphones were resting on…
