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Robert Treharne Jones wrote: > Can anyone offer constructive comment on the flaky nature of > ADSL access on my BT line at home? For some time now it tends > to drop the link early morning, maybe 0830-0900 and then > resume in the middle of the evening. But it doesn't happen > like this every day, just most days. > > When it's up and running, late evening, middle of the night, > early morning, it's all fine and dandy. My ISP has run a > check on the BT line and says it's fine, and presumably it > can't be a problem with the (wireless) Belbin router or it wouldn't > happen so regularly? > > Robert We had a weird problem a couple of years ago, which caused our intruder alarm to issue a "phone line faulty" message in the mornings as we went out to work. BT couldn't find out what was going on, and declared the line to be fine. We had recently had our hall flooring replaced, and I eventually discovered that the fitter had moved a telephone cable which was routed around the skirting into an adjacent room, and that it was being crushed by a (normally left open) door as we closed the door before leaving for work. The room is protected by a PIR detector, and we had to close the door to avoid the dogs (confined in the hall) causing a false alarm. Is there something you do between 0830 and 0900 which might cause a similar short-circuit? Michael