Loss Of Connection, Traffic Shaping?

[DJ_Price]

I was online around midnight when my internet connection just stopped working. I had been downloading during the day & early evening & I know about the connection being lowered if I were to go over the set limit, but the connection has been off until 4:30am. I thought it could have been my firewall or router. I booted up in safe mode etc & tried testing both with no outcome on either front. Has anyone else come accross this, or was it a fact that the internet connection had just gone down for whatever reason?

[Rob]

traffic shaping doesn't cut you off, it just slows the speeds down. Traffic shaping also does not cut in after 9:00pm these days, unless you were already over the thresholds.

I'd suspect some sort of fault that cut you off completely.

[Ernie_C]

Originally Posted by Rob

Traffic shaping also does not cut in after 9:00pm these days.......

I'm not sure that is true as I understood that the new STM regime was not to be put in place until 2008.

[deed02392]

Yes I think you're right, search for the thread on the STM for 2008. I would guess at some sort of repairs were the reason to your outage.

[brundles]

Check the modem logs.

There is an ongoing problem in my (very) local area causing random disconnections for random periods of time. The upstream power level is pretty unstable fluctuating from 45 up to 58 over a given period of time. When it goes beyond 58 (as I understand it) the network will (in slight different words!) tell the modem to get stuffed - triggering a reboot of modem and dead connection until it recovers.

The tech was escalating it last week after getting sick of going to the same 4 houses every week for the same fault - but I've had the same problems again this morning so it looks like networks have done their usual

Edit: Just noticed the time you posted - it's also possible there was some last minute maintenance going on before the Christmas network freeze and there is nothing actually wrong with you're connection