Down again this am. Got to be the line so am pursuing plusnet. Cheers Mark

Settling auth to CHAP seems to have done the trick! Will monitor stability now. Test dons root still shows fail but I guess that's immaterial. Thanks for your help. Cheers Mark

Both, thanks for the feedback. One puzzle is that the uplink site only acknowledges the 8970v3 and 8970bv1 and not the 8970v1. I found the firmware by doing a search. The 8970bv1 looks to be a visual...

After talking to Plusnet, I'm now confused �� They are saying that they've been increasing SNR due to the dropouts - reducing speed but attempting to increase reliability. BT claim to start at 6dB...

Thanks for that since my other modem has also become erratic. Will get on to my ISP. Cheers Mark

is this ok? cheers mark