Megaserve Suig

[bismay]

Megaserve sucks. I dont know how the get ppl connected.
I'm unable to ping google.co.za but still my browser opens up the page. I cannot use MSN unless i use a proxy and my skype does not work if i can't ping addresses.

They suck and that's all that i can say. Im gonna get myself ADSL and start sharing it.

 

[rsachoc]

Reason you cant ping www.google.co.za is because these days routers are blocking ICMP packets, and thus pinging will time out. MSN probably does not work without the proxy because they are using some sort of NAT based system, and Skype should not have to ping an address for it to work.

Have you contacted Megaserve?

 

[bismay]

Sometimes it does ping and sometimes it does not. Today the net does not even work. I'm on dial-up now. I have not contacted Megaserve yet.

 

[DFantom]

$ ping [url]www.google.com[/url]
PING [url]www.l.google.com[/url] (64.233.161.147) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 64.233.161.147: icmp_seq=1 ttl=234 time=639 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.161.147: icmp_seq=2 ttl=234 time=539 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.161.147: icmp_seq=3 ttl=234 time=598 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.161.147: icmp_seq=4 ttl=234 time=678 ms

--- [url]www.l.google.com[/url] ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 539.396/613.876/678.140/51.387 ms

Google seems pingable. Might be megaserves firewall rules that is getting you?
Skype has no requirement for pinging

 

[bismay]

The reseller is moving me to one of he's new sites, so hopefully i will have no problems, but i'll let you guys know.

Cheers,