lost dsl connection bad modem or bad dsl provider??

[soso2565]

Hello everyone here my situation

my setting is:
speedstream modem 5200
d-link DIR-825

since few days I lost internet access randomly let say every 10 minutes I can lost the connection for 2-3 minutes , on the modem the DSL light is RED when lost internet ( the light is green when I have internet access )

I call my DSL provider and , like always when they look the modem from their office it work fine ...so there nothing they can do other then tell me that my modem is too old ( 6 years old ) and I should change it .

So what I have done is I have connect my laptop on the modem directly and erase the error log file while it was running , I have wait until the modem lost the DSL again and wait that it get it back and I have copy the error log here it is :

+000 days 23:55:17 E |DHCP Server |Address 192.168.1.64 given out to 70:5a:b6:13:2d:df
+000 days 23:58:33 E |Ethernet |Link 1 Down
+000 days 23:58:47 E |Ethernet |Link 1 Up - 100Base-TX Full Duplex
+000 days 23:58:51 E |DHCP Server |Last DHCP Server message repeated 12 times.
+000 days 23:58:51 E |DHCP Server |Smarttimeout invoked, lease timeout
+001 days 00:19:38 E |DSL |Link Down
+001 days 00:19:38 E |DSL |State: WAITING
+001 days 00:20:50 E |Ethernet |Link 1 Down
+001 days 00:21:07 E |Ethernet |Link 1 Up - 100Base-TX Full Duplex
+001 days 00:21:24 E |DHCP Server |Address 192.168.1.64 given out to 70:5a:b6:13:2d:df
+001 days 00:21:30 E |DSL |State: INITIALIZING
+001 days 00:21:37 E |DSL |HYBRID 2
+001 days 00:21:37 E |DSL |Link up 79 US 800 DS 7040 (FAST:G.dmt)



So does someone here is able to help me if it is my modem who's not working properly or my DSL provider ?

thank you

[mccoffee]

I would swap out the modem and also check the router and modem's firmware date. There could be a firmware update on the modem that may resloved the issues. This site has the manual and a frimware update to chsange into a router mode however since you own a router you want the modem in a bridge only mode.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/84