Bouncing Velox and Connectivity Problems

Rec 11-mar-2007 22:03

There's something spooky about my connectivity. Everything's been way too slow lately. Rumaging through the logs, I noticed that ppp has been reconnecting a lot lately:

melee:/var/log# (zcat messages.2.gz messages.1.gz ; cat messages.0 messages)|gre
p "local  IP" | perl -ne 's/\d+\.\d+$/XXX.XXX/;print'
Feb 24 20:35:08 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Feb 28 21:18:55 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  1 17:32:24 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  2 15:29:57 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  2 19:03:38 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.8.XXX.XXX
Mar  3 13:19:37 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 189.12.XXX.XXX
Mar  3 17:41:13 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  4 07:54:56 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  4 13:48:38 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  4 13:55:14 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  4 14:14:08 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  4 21:31:32 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  5 13:22:04 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  5 13:40:46 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  5 20:11:09 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  6 09:26:55 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  6 10:24:32 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  6 12:49:50 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 189.13.XXX.XXX
Mar  6 13:09:27 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  6 16:17:43 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  6 19:14:19 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  6 19:22:35 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  6 21:01:10 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  6 21:26:44 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  6 21:47:05 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 06:03:37 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 06:34:29 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 07:10:48 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 07:35:41 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 08:03:37 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 08:32:35 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 08:44:32 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 15:31:55 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 16:28:01 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 17:13:35 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 17:51:52 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 18:02:28 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 18:44:27 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 19:42:22 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  7 22:51:16 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  8 06:00:36 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  8 06:33:10 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  8 06:57:45 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  8 08:20:51 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.8.XXX.XXX
Mar  8 09:48:39 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  8 13:01:48 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  8 13:58:02 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  8 15:29:20 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  8 18:50:19 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  8 18:56:33 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  8 19:04:46 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  8 19:34:57 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  9 07:13:10 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  9 07:53:27 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  9 11:39:04 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  9 12:46:21 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  9 13:27:38 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  9 15:52:54 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  9 18:41:21 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar  9 19:04:06 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 10 07:26:01 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 10 12:12:29 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 10 13:22:46 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 10 13:50:02 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 10 17:14:42 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 10 17:29:22 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 10 18:44:50 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 10 21:55:58 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 10 22:17:06 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 11 09:36:58 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 11 09:57:52 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 11 17:44:53 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 11 18:45:19 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 11 20:14:14 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX
Mar 11 21:04:56 melee pppd[27066]: local  IP address 201.50.XXX.XXX

Notice the large increase in reconnections since March 1st, which coincides with my perception of bad performance. Before that, it reconnected at most once a day -- sometimes it took saveral days without reconnections.

Dear readers which also use Oi's Velox ADSL service: are you experiencing similar problems? Or have you been able to connect and surf normally?

Perhaps it has something to do with the recent Telemar-Oi merger. Historically, every time these mergers happen, costumers suffer.

On another note, last week Lincoln and Evandro came here. I managed to get Evandro connect to my Wifi network, but not without manually fiddling with Windows' configurations. Despite that, he remained unable to download his email, so we had to resort to my cabled network. On one side, Evandro's notebook is rather old, with a 802.11b-only card, while my AP (a D-Link DWL 2000 AP+) is 802.11b/g. However, I routinely and reliable connect using my imate PDA-2K, whose interface is b-only too. Go figure.

Lincoln's MacBook, on the other hand, didn't associate at all, even though we made extra sure that we were using the correct key and that I have correctly set up the AP's MAC filter to allow his card.

A possible explanation is that maybe I'm already being a victim of spectrum overcrowding -- here at my home I can detect something between six and eight Wifi networks from neighbors and ISPs.

I'll look into it in more detail and report what I find out.
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