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does anyone have trouble signing in on Yahoo mail using Sentech.

Its weird cuz at work I connecto Yahoo no problem but at home on Sentech I get an
error 999 from Yahoo's side. I have tried with IE and Mozilla.

Anyone else experiencing this or is my machine being funny at home?


myWireless 128, 64, 48, 16 - depends on its mood.
 
Yahoo mail I can get on, not great, but it is going. But I cannot get my webcam to connect to yahoo at all. About midday, the connection died, looked like it was doing some sort of auto upgrade and wouldn't reconnect until I plugged it back into my computer from my router. I was really annoyed. Took more than half an hour and the connection speeds are as bad as ever. Are they EVER going to sort this rubbish out?

Menlo Park Tower / 128k / NoWire.co.za
 
I use Yahoo almost everyday but in the last week can only login with the secure option -


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custenna, variable 2 - 13 signal, ber 28% - 42%.<i> "I am the only one with this problem." </i>
 
I've also had problems, getting the 999 error. Strangely, I could log in just now. I know a lot of guys in rez who share a connection also having troubles

Eish!
 
Just a quick question - why don't you folks use the free local web-mail services, instead of services like Yahoo/Hotmail, which are very likely hosted overseas? Both webmail - www.webmail.co.za - and ananzi - www.ananzi.co.za - have made this available, with the former giving 10Mb and the latter 4Mb...
 
Yahoo provides 100MB. Gmail gives me 1GB free. For people who travel outside of SA, yahoo is fast, easily accesable and reliable.
It's a no brainer actually!!!

Edit: I've spoken to someone at Sentech. They think they have fixed the Yahoo problem. Give it a try!
 
No matter where I access Yahoo from, I get the 999 error. Mailed Yahoo and they said it was a problem from their side. Can access every now and then.
 
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by dbnnet</i>
<br />Yahoo provides 100MB. Gmail gives me 1GB free. For people who travel outside of SA, yahoo is fast, easily accesable and reliable.
It's a no brainer actually!!!
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Aahh - OK. My brain needs a bloody vacation, anyways...
 
I also cannot login to Yahoo from a Sentech connection, and it is definitely Sentech as it works fine on my ADSL connection. Does yahoo login use anything non-standard (ports or otherwise). About the same time this started I could no longer play chess online using worldchessnetwork on port 5125. Sentech is definitely doing something weird (for a change). They're now port shaping my connection so aggressively, it would better be described as outright port-blocking. Obviously these morons think anything that doesn't use ports 80, 21, 110 or 25 is abuse - someone should educate them about all the legitimate internet services and protocols that use many of the other 65k ports.
 
garp, slow down :) ....I suggest you take a look at this.
This problem is well known.
http://aspirasi.org/blog/archives/2004/05/yahoo_the_page.html

Also... I have received confirmation that Sentech have
excluded login.yahoo.com from being proxied to ease
this problem.
 
seems to be fixed and can access it... but dawd aweful slow
Sentech! Your international speeds are stupid... and not worth R650.00 a month. cock suckers!

myWireless 128, 64, 48, 16 - depends on its mood.
 
Okay seems seems to work now - but why did it work so reliably with ADSL but almost always happen with Sentech? Still can't play any yahoo games or online chess which is irritating me no end. They'll work fine for a few minutes and then the connectivity to these sites will just freeze.
 
I have just been on Yahoo games and played "Chinese Checkers"...no problem.

I really do not believe that it is not completely a sentech problem. I really believe that it has to do with individual machine set up, signal strength, beretc. But then Sentech should realise this and give it their full attention to try and resolve the problem and start giving some technical advice on their web site instead of leaving it up to each one of us to try and find a solution.

I still cannot believe that it works for some people and not for others, even from the same tower. Impossible. Must be a set up problem on our side.

My Signal strength is 30 and ber 71. Distance from tower...about 5km.
 
I believe there are some people who are getting good speeds. I have also had confimation that some
towers are regarded as problem towers. I believe Sentech have the bandwidth they just have no idea
how to manage it across all there users. I think sorting the multiple login sotry should help...
but my hope in them resolving anything is beyond repair...

myWireless 128, 64, 48, 16 - depends on its mood.
 
Well yahoo games and many other non-browsing/email stuff just isn't working for me at all. It was fine up to a couple of weeks ago. It starts off okay but then always just times out after a few minutes - IRC, yahoo, etc. Standard downloads are now quite fast, browsing is bearable, email is okay, but nothing else works properly.
 
The error 999 on Yahoo has been around for a long time. I began to see it late in 2001 and traced the problem to the "caches" the ISP's run. Datapro is one ISP that has problems logging into Yahoo, and gives error 999. Absolutely nothing to do with MyWireless as it wasn't invented yet

To resolve it, use the "secure login" option or simply login via another ISP.
 
I really believe that it has to do with individual machine set up, signal strength, beretc.
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You will be amazed just how close to the truth this is but if we say this then we are blaming the customer.
This goes true not only for MyWi but iBurst as well.
These technologies (especially MyWi) require a lot of your CPU time but with a zillion other stuff in your PC it does not get that and with human nature it is just a hell of a lot easier to blame someone else.
I use a seperate PC (P2) which is dedicated to MyWi and it works great.
Granted I do have the odd disconnection and snail speed like in the middle of the day, it also depends on how many hops there are to the site you downloading from but generally it works pretty well.
 
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