I'm working on the first-post date. As I recall, it started a few days before that. My actual 'up-time' on the TP-Link (current model as tested all along) is currently 16 days. This is when I last tested by unplugging and trying the other two routers, 16 days ago.
Nothing at all has changed. The stats are exactly as they were. So prior to the last 16 days, the stats were also the same from the time I initially posted on here. It's now been over 30 days - way over 30 days - and there have been no dropouts etc. The only residual problem being that the speed has not been resumed and is now 'stuck'. The line has not reset back to its normal (high) speed - and nor will it do - without some sort of human intervention I suspect.
So, in summary; the line has been solid for at least 30 days with no dropouts or errors. Speed has not increased back to what it normally should be (77meg+). There is no apparent reason for the artificial 'capping' of speed.
I wouldn't mind if I was in a rural location or perhaps at the behest of some other factor impeding performance, but I can look out of my bedroom window and see both the cabinet and the exchange - I live that close. I have enjoyed good performance for so long, it seems unfair that there is no reason why it should drop. No reason whatsoever. The last two occasions have been 'repaired' by the engineer coming out and doing a DLM. This has cured the problem without issue (until it went wonky again - and then it was cured again by a DLM some 12 months later). Looking at this statistically and pragmatically, one would deduce that the simplest course of action is to perform this reset once again. I don't know how many more hoops to jump through. I haven't the energy.
Do you know what, I have just had enough. 😕
