kiman2000 wrote: I think you are right about the OR modem... at 4am I noticed a drop and invesitgated... it was a DLM re-grade and it increased pings from 20ms to 40ms and dropped my line speed for 68Mb to 55Mb.... If I put the OR modem back in - do you think it will go back up?? I have heard it takes 3 days from DLM to settle?

bakewellbiker wrote: Been having the same problems as you kiman but been off site for 6 weeks so had to temporarily leave it. Back this week and it's still dropping the connection 20-30 times a day. You could say I've had enough.....

Just to recap:

These disconnections only started when I migrated from ADSL to VDSL.
Done all the stuff previously suggested.
BT (actually MT as this is the IOM) have been out and swopped me onto another pair to the FTTC. (no change).

So what's new apart from me having less hair? Well my ISP lent me a Fritzbox which was substituted over the weekend for 3 days. Result? no dropped connections at all for the 3 days. The 2860Vn was reconnected yesterday morning and its back to dropping the connection every few minutes and >30 times/day.

The substitution test really does rule most things out other than the 2860.

marjohn56 wrote:
The reason I did not see what reset the line at 8am was I went out and bought an Asus DSL-AC68, set it up, plugged it all in and went WOW! Another 5Mb's, then I went and looked at the TBB Ping test and saw I had been reset at 8am. Whatever the case, I tried the Asus, and as has been reported on other forums the VDSL connection reset after about 2-3 hours so the Draytek is back in place. I have had four days of total stability and I reckon for the time being I'll leave it there. Might take the Asus back to PC World and get my money back. What I really wanted was a nice 5Ghz Access point, but I was taken in by the nice box.

I should quickly add that although the Asus and Draytek both locked at the same sync rate, the Asus did report a higher attainable rate.