Problems?

[Bishop]

Is anyone else still having problems with the DNS resolution?
I have spent most of the weekend pressing F5 in a sad attempt to load Google.
Bittorrent in the meantime has come to a screeching halt, unable to even find any peers.

Cowtenna | 12% Signal | Tower 12 ( Mintek )

 

[Headend]

No DNS problems on my side of the tower (Kensington B)...

Headend
Tower: Mintek (82 was 12) - Signal: 19% - Firmware: 4.2.1.8 - 128k - Smoothwall and PPPoE

 

[arf9999]

At the risk of sounding like a helldesk orc...have you tried resetting your modem? I had a similar problem...but my modem had found another tower (out of range) during the period that the network was down and then refused to connect to my tower until I reset.

-A

 

[Saul]

You know these is nothing that pisses me off more than when I phone the helldesk and they tell me to reset the modem. I mean for R3500 bucks I shouldnt be using a paperclip to short the thing and reset it. I think its absolutely disgusting that its their generic answer for everything. Everyone at that helpdesk should be shot and quatered! Especially some of the really unfriendly ones like chris [}]

 

[Bishop]

Hmm... I'll try the reset and some fiddling tonight. If that does not work I guess I will have to try the helpdesk.
Thanks

Cowtenna | 12% Signal | Tower 12 ( Mintek )

 

[arf9999]

Hey Saul,

I didn't mean a HARD reset, I meant a software reset from ProAsm's MySignal.

Dude, you need to chill out! You HAVE bandwidth, remember? Spare a thought for the rest of us! []


MW128, Tower <b>60</b>(Northpark Plaza), Signal:16%,S-N-L: 7, BER: 45%

 

[Turtle]

A paperclip!? I've never had to do that, I normally just press the modem's power button for a couple of seconds.

 

[gripen]

yes. but when you say that they will always say "but did you do a hard rest". Somehow in orc land that is definitely the skeleton key to all problems. Only in rare instances will a hard reset actually fix speed issues (if you are lucky enough to get re-assigned in IP address in the good bandwidth pool)

 

[Bishop]

Doing a hard reset seems to have fixed my problem. I am back to my crappy speeds of before instead of the no speed I had the weekend.
Better than nothing I guess...

Thanks guys.

Cowtenna | 12% Signal | Tower 12 ( Mintek )