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"Clocky" <notgonna@happen.com> wrote in message 
news:55b6cffd$0$1581$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com...
> On 25/07/2015 2:26 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Clocky" <notgonna@happen.com> wrote in message
>> news:55b26e34$0$1560$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com...
>>> On 24/07/2015 4:17 PM, Max wrote:
>>>> I know someone with a crackly phone line and also a ADSL connection
>>>> which drops out from time to time.
>>>>
>>>> What could be the cause?
>>
>>> I replaced my Billion ADSL modem with a Technicolor (ex-Bigpond users
>>> $5 swap meet jobby)
>>
>> I replaced my Billion with a Netcomm from a garage sale,
>> just because the Netcomm is a voip router that I have never
>> actually gotten around to actually using the voip capability of.
>>
>>> and all my phone line noise disappeared
>>
>> I never had any phone line noise with the Billion.
>>
>
> I've had issues with line noise since I've had it. I always thought it was 
> the cheap cordless phones we had but with the Technicolor the noise has 
> completely disappeared. Maybe it's just a combination of the phones and 
> the Billion, or the Billion was faulty from day one.
>
>>> and ADSL connection speed improved as a bonus.
>>
>> It did make a small difference to mine, but that was
>> because the Billion is ADSL and the Netcomm is
>> ADSL2+ and I changed to an ADSL2+ service
>> from the previous ADSL service.
>
> My improvement was from a max of around 8-9Mbps to consistently just over 
> 10 so I'll take that.

The Netcomm has just partially died and the Billion has turned into a brick
and the Dlink I got at a garage sale just a couple of weeks ago turns out to
not have a power supply in the box, I keep forgetting to look in the box of
stuff like that at garage sales. I've ordered a Billion 7800NXL and it will 
be
interesting to see how it performs once it shows up.

The Billion 7202G may be recoverable by reflashing the firmware with
the serial port and the Netcomm may well just have a bad cap or two
so I may well get off my arse and return them from the dead.

The dlink DSL-2770L doesn’t look great from the whirlpool thread
and I ordered the power supply from Singapore before I managed
to brick the Billion because I didn’t realise I'd need it quickly. 

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    Re: crackly line "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-24 19:54 +1000
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      Re: crackly line "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-07-25 18:51 +0800
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  Re: crackly line Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-07-25 00:56 +0800
    Re: crackly line "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-25 04:26 +1000
      Re: crackly line Clocky <notgonna@happen.com> - 2015-07-28 08:42 +0800
        Re: crackly line "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 17:34 +1000
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