Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
Tech people:
Help.
Last night, all of a sudden, my internet stopped working. I restarted the router (among other things) and it was fine for 10 minutes, and then the browser started not finding web pages. Then a while later the email programme (thunderbird) stopped finding the server. I disabled the firewall on the router (after a long period of fault finding and re-installing, and disabled the firewall on the machine itself (Sygate) and it didn't make any difference - after 10 minutes (or so) from re-booting the router, the net disappeared.
Does this sound like an internet issue, or the router? The router still thinks it's connected, from the admin screen, and Firefox has no issue talking to the router, it just stops seeing anything external. And none of the other programmes (Trillian, Skype, Googletalk etc) could see anything after a while either. It's like all my traffic is being slowly blocked.
My thoughts now are:
1: Router is fucked. (I have restored factory defaults and reset everything - got the same 'working + 10 minutes = not working')
2: Connection is fucked.
Anyone got any ideas as to where I should be looking? I have essentially re-installed everything and tried every cmobination of the two firewalls to try and fault find but it seems independant of them all.
Posted by
ellipse, around September 2005:
did you ring your ISP to check your router was connected to the internet, and their services were up?
if it is, try connecting using dialup
could be your ISP's DNS server failed? ie your connection to them is fine, but when your apps try to get an internet address they get nothing back.
if this is the case, nothing to do but wait till they fix it. or add a public dns server's address to either your router's or your PC's network information-- if that works, you know it's definitely the isp so you can ring them to sort it out.
Posted by
ellipse, around September 2005:
bribe sal with alchool to come over and sort it all?
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
What is this public DNS server thingy that you speak of? Would one have such a thingymawhassit?
I will be calling them today, I just wanted to make sure that there was a reasonable chance that it was there fault before I made a prick of myself when they said "Your phone line must be hanging out of the wall" or other some such bollocks.
www.opennic.unrated.net/pub...
try one of the Tier 2 sites listed
(.glue? that's a new one on me)
add one of the IP addresses (eg the uk one: 194.164.6.112) to the list of DNS servers stored by either your PC (look in Control Panels, shd be a textbox list somewhere in your Networking or Internet controlpanel) or on your router (use whatever tool you use for your router's admin)
but based on what you originally posted, it's definitely worth ringing your ISP to ask if their DNS server had problems on the weekend. if so: do nothing, just wait for them to fix it.
Slaver the router in butter
Posted by
Gary, around September 2005:
Before you go taking things apart, installing/reinstalling, wasting money on the phone to useless techies etc., try scanning for viruses and spyware.
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
Gary: First thing I did, dude. I figured that was so obvious (and I was stealth posting at work, so in a rush) that I didn't need to mention it.
Apparently my IP address "was an old one and it wasn't added to the list when the ISP did a massive upgrade because they thought it was a dead one".
Sounds like utter shit to me, but hey, what the fuck do I know. It sounds more like "I pressed the wrong button and I have moved my cup of coffee off it now".
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
Oh, and I rang from work. I'm not a complete dumb arse.
:)
Posted by
Gary, around September 2005:
Ah, good stuff. Sounds like they made a fuck up and whoever you spoke to wasn't too good at covering it up! ;)
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
Bugger. That ain't fixed it. I am getting about 20 minutes between router re-starts before pages start to slowly disappear.
Now disappearing:
First Flickr, then radiotimes, then my blog, then bloglines won't update or find the main page, Trillian is losing channels like a snow covered aerial. Then email doesn't work.
Although iamcal is ok right now, I have low hopes. They all disappear eventually.
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
news.bbc.uk is gone.
The jobsite in Oz was looking at has shat it's pants too.
/me cries.
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
Fucking shocked that this is working, mind. I may have a very specific internet soon. Iamcal.com or fuck all else.
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
Ah, the guy that deals with my stuff reckons that my line was upgraded to 2Mb, and it is shitting out the BT line. This was done over the weekend, which would make sense.
It was a good recovery. He texted me back with the answer within 10 minutes. Although I have no idea how many people are there to help him make stuff like that up..
:)
I am getting downgraded in the morning to try and fix it. And there was me thinking I couldn't get any lower...
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
Can you tell that I'm fucking bored? I have nothing else to look at. Fucking internet. Gets you a bit hooked.
Oooooh. I always have 'Playstation'.....
I'd forgotten about that.
:)
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
Ho hum. It takes a while to boot up.
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
Fucking hell. I can't even get any porn.
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
Woo! We have a PS2 blue light (and now I have the right disk in).
Gran Tourismo 4 here I come.
You never know your luck, this site may shit too, and you won't have to read this vapid, pointless shit I am allowing to dribble from my mouth.
(bleuuuurrrggggggggh)
There's some more, see. Nasty, innit?
you type with your mouth?
ick
Posted by
peyote, around September 2005:
woh Brock dude.....My connection fucked up earlier today!!! The lights where on in the house of internet but no one was home..... I thought it was my pc at fault, or the server, i pissed about with it all bloody morning, i rebooted, and system restored galore to find a place to find my internet joy...
Eventualy it seemed to correct itself? I still dont know what was up! Like fuckin gremlins or somethin!!!
From Staffordshire?
I suddenly have an image in my head of a mouse on a treadmill. Not sure why.
Posted by
ellipse, around September 2005:
i have an image of brock licking a keyboard, an he's enjoying it
eeeeewwwww
slavering the keyboard in drool
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
I can't speak drool. Only English.
And it all went to pooh again last night. Bah. I am going to make a call and get medieval on their arse.
Posted by
ellipse, around September 2005:
just don't tell them about your keyboard licking fetish
it occurs to me that brock can not type and telephone simultaneously
that was the BEST thread of someone talking to themselves ever!
for your sake I hope your internet is fixed properly soon but I find you very funny in this mode :)
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
Really?
I fucking don't. I only have iamcal again. Although I am pissed now, as the MD has just bought me dinner and a fair few pints before I proved utterly incapable of walking past all the pubs on the way home.
Arp.
Innit.
If I wasn't so pissed, tired and utterly FUCKED off with my dogshit internet connection still not being fixed, I'd entertain you.
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
But I am. And I am
www.internet.not at the moment.
Fucking hairy cunt balls.
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
Oh.
Innit.
yay the internot
luddite.cob
licky, i mean lucky, that you haven't replaced your phone with a skype connection...
Posted by
ellipse, around September 2005:
i just like to say - this needs resolving- it make brock stalking V difficult
Posted by
peyote, around September 2005:
Brock Brock fuckin Brock.....
Are u all married to him or something?
Is he ur Guru!!!
Posted by
peyote, around September 2005:
Tell me why do u lick ur keyboards! Should i be doing it!!!
i don't think you'd be able to REACH brock's keyboard would you? unless you're stalking him...
Posted by
ellipse, around September 2005:
i dream of being married to brock,
also divorcing him in quicky las Vegas style
Posted by
WarHead, around September 2005:
Me too, for he is my bitch ..... or I am his. I'm always a little confused about that.
Posted by
Brock, around September 2005:
That's the way I like to keep it.
(bitch)
thats me told off, serves me right for saying something nice about brock
Posted by
ellipse, around September 2005:
everyone makes a mistake every now and then miki
Posted by
Brock, around 13th September 2005:
You weren't told off. I was just being angry. I appreciate that this is such an unusual occurence that it may not have occured to you as a possibility...
:)
(still not net at home properly, for an update)
Posted by
ellipse, around 13th September 2005:
plus you were funny miki
and the mirthmaking at brocks expense was just an added bonus to it
Posted by
syl_DUPE1, around 13th September 2005:
It all happened because you is a doofus. Hi Brockles!
Posted by
WarHead, around 13th September 2005:
Brock and his new g/f.
But they spelled his name incorrectly.
Posted by
syl_DUPE1, around 13th September 2005:
Eek. I can't see the pic...
Posted by
WarHead, around 13th September 2005:
$%£$£""££$$ - ta-daaaaaaaah!!!
Posted by
syl_DUPE1, around 13th September 2005:
Oh, you are the wizard, the wonderful
wizard of Oz
Posted by
syl_DUPE1, around 13th September 2005:
Oh no, that's Salty. You're the sorcerer of Manchester...
and, according to the song, you have to be a bit off to see me
Posted by
syl_DUPE1, around 13th September 2005:
well, that'd be me...