If you're with TELUS you will need to call in and have a tech come out to look at your lines. What you are describing, chronic loss of synch, and slow modem linking (training as techs call it) are all symptoms of what is known as 'bridged tap'. This is a condition that is physically rooted, in that it is a cable or wiring issue. This is not going to be something that can be addressed over the phone.
Unplugging or power cycling the modem (rebooting) will seem to clear this problem, however the problem will return in a certain amount of time until the issue that is causing it is resolved.
Here's a quick analogy of why this is happening. The 'bridged tap' is causing errors to be present on your service. Errors are corrupt or lost packets. Think of these like a faucet dripping water into a cup, the errors are the drips, the cup is your modem/router. These errors 'build up' in your modem/router until they reach a critical point at which time the internet ceases to function and you must reboot the modem/router to get service back. For my analogy rebooting is emptying the cup. This rebooting dumps all the accumulated errors and thereby clears your service. Then when you restart the modem it re-synchs and the process of errors building up begins again, as if you placed the cup back under the drip after emptying it. This is why it’s important to have a tech come out and address the situation that is causing this bridged tap. Power cycling or rebooting only appears to fix it, in reality it will return when the errors reach a critical point. The answer is to address the cause of the errors, to stop the drip if you will, then the service will work properly. Constantly emptying the cup won’t stop the drip.
- another TELUS tech