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[OCLUG-Tech] seeking loaner DSL modem Speedtouch 516v6

Anyone got a Speedtouch 516v6 modem I can borrow for a week or two?

My original iStop/3Web DSL line has been showing disconnects at certain
times of the day for the past almost two years.  (Bell reduced the line
profile from 5 to 4 to 3 Mbit.  It still drops, though less than at
5 Mbit.)

I finally got a separate dry DSL line installed (NCF) last week, and
it, too, shows drops at similar times of the day, especially around
7am-11am and 11pm-midnight daily.  Midnight to 6am and noon to 6pm are
pretty stable.  Both lines work fine at full speed for "most" of the day;
they just keep disconnecting.

I'd like to put a modem on both lines so that I can collect line quality
stats for both lines at the same time and correlate the line drops between
the two.  I have scripts to pull stats from the "adsl info" command on
the Speedtouch modem; so, that's the type of modem I'd like to borrow.
Failing that, I could borrow a different model, provided it has line
quality stats...

I have a loaner modem from NCF; but, they need it back ASAP.

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