Back to the top with a possibly similar problem.
We're Rural (France), 1km'ish of copper wire between us and the exchange. ADSL has been fine for previous 5 years but started having problems about six months back when we frequently lost internet access and the internet "box" was claiming no-sychronisation. Problem would then usually self heal after a few minutes or hours. Original ISP diagnosed the problem as a faulty box which was changed but didn't improve matters. We then changed ISPs (to Orange) but the problem continues - drop outs and then after a period of time of what might be seconds or hours it'll "self heal" again.......
Engineer came out last week, thought he'd fixed it by fiddling with some of our telephone wiring in the house but the problem has kicked in again this weekend.
Now it seems to me
that the problem is at it's worse just during/just after we've had a wet and windy spell (and we've had a lot of those this winter spring)..and now the (to me) really mysterious bit: we've just discovered that we seem to be able to recover the ADSL within about a minute if we use the landline to dial out to a number( any number)...almost as if the act of dialing out on the telephone kicks the ADSL into getting back into sync, clears a line fault..or something.
Anybody out there got any thoughts on this problem - engineer coming back out on Tuesday, it's now sunny and calm and ASDL has been rock solid since last night.....
