Why does my Broadband keep dying?
Over the last months or so, my home Broadband connection has become increasingly unreliable.
During the day, its fine, no problems and very robust. About 3 months ago, it started to fall over with monotonous regularity after about 10:30pm and any attempt to reconnect only lasted a few minutes. Now it starts disconnecting at about 8:30, which severely curtails any evening surfing.
I have a laptop connecting to a modem and my ISP is Orange/Wanadoo on a BT landline.
When it reconnects, I get a message to say I'm verified on the host computer, I'll then click on Internet Explorer but quite often, I can't even get my home page loaded before the connection dies on me.
I'm sure that if I complain to BT, they will blame Orange and vice versa, but I need to bring it to someone's attention - Ofcom maybe?
My mate who lives about 5mins from me, on Orange too, suffers from the same problem which makes me think its the BT exchange. Is it just volume of traffic? I don't think there is a fault with the line as its OK during the day