D700 constant disconnect and dropout

[NYSTY]

Connecting in Australia to NBN via Mate Communicate.

CONSTANT dropouts and dropoffs, and absolutely no attempt to reconect - only solution is constant hard restarts. 

Have factory reset multiple times and upgraded to latest firmware V1.0.1.78_1.0.1.

If anything this seems to make the dropouts worse.

Spoke to ISP provider and changed WAN preference to 'must use Ethernet WAN' but that hasn't helped .

MTU = 1492 

Any ideas? Otherwise it's goodbye Netgear for good. 

And does anyone from Netgear ever assist on these forums, or is it only the community?

[antinode]

> CONSTANT dropouts and dropoffs, [...]

   Presumably, you mean something like "frequent", not "CONSTANT".

   LED indicators?  Other behavior (like, say, browser access to its
management web site)?  Any useful information at all?

> [...] changed WAN preference to 'must use Ethernet WAN' [...]

   To what is this D7000 connected?

> And does anyone from Netgear ever assist on these forums, or is it
> only the community?

   Occasionally or mostly, respectively.