On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:46:07 +0100, Alec passed an empty day by writing:

If your noise level changes at about sunset or sunrise this could be
related to radio interference and may be worst in the evening. Remember
adsl works on similar frequencies.

Remember the medium wave radio stations which were great in the evening,
well these are just the ones you do not want on your broadband line.
Would be worst on an overhead line.

Alec


"Invalid" wrote in message
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I monitor my router using Routerstats (freeware). I am 4 km from the
exchange, all overhead wiring. During the day the SNR sits at 6 plus
or minus and the speed at 6250ish. Just before sunset it rises by 1 or
2dB for a couple of hours. At sunset it drops down to only 1 or 2 dB
and goes back up to 6 or 7dB at sunrise. My router often looses sync
at 11-12 pm when the noise level gets bad, and resyncs at 5800ish. If
it does drop out overnight, I reboot in the morning and it all goes
back to 6250/6dB. A couple of days with no dropout at night and I get a
5500 BRAS. After a couple of noisy nights it drops to 5000.

That was my assumption. I have 4*km of aerial!!!!

In fact it gets worse in long dry spells - presumably the cable sheath
dries out and its RF insulation capability falls.

Regards
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Invalid