@Townman wrote:
@22over7 wrote:
FWIW, I'm on a legacy product (or at least, it's name is), with a static IP (which I don't really want, because my ping is horrible, and I keep getting switched around nameless gateways, and I don't need it, etc etc). But my bill is vaguely believable, so I'm beginning to regret having brought up the topic, in case some "correction" happens....
Hi,
My first reaction to your comment was "What the heck has a static IP address got to do with ping times...?". Also that changing gateways only happens when you drop and re-establish the PPS session.
That should not happen unless you are manually bouncing the router or the VDSL is unstable
No. My modem has been in continuous sync for 81 days (since a power brown-out). My router has been up for about 70. I never disconnect PPOE manually about once in 6 months. There are several disconnects in the router log, to be sure, usually when I am in bed.
Now, I do not know who is dropping the connection, but there is nothing in the logs to indicate the router is doing it. My hypothesis is that my connection to Plusnet/BT routing is being changed, for some reason, as seedn via http://users.plus.net/@gateway_custom?debug-ip=yes. This is confirmed by what I see in Zen's "broadband outages" page, where my exchange often turns up, in rough sync with gateway "hops". But I could be wrong . My router is getting a bit long in the tooth.
I am in Scotland. I do not expect to have a great minimum ping. It is always 20ms, give or take about 5. I, am a nuisance to a Sheffield ISP, or to BT, down there in Englandshire. It would be great if dropping my static IP simplified their backhaul problems enough for them to shave a few ms off my pings. I've no confidence in that, and if it makes no difference, I'm very comfortable continuing to be a nuisance. But someone may know some facts. I have read things in these forums, pertaining the new (elderly) network that make me thing there is more to this than meets your eye.
