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| Thread ID: 48415 | 2004-08-22 09:09:00 | How to "ping" a Server ? | pulling hair out (4493) | Press F1 |
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| 264230 | 2004-08-22 10:28:00 | Hi zqwerty The phone cord from my notebook is connected to a long extension cord which ends up in my brothers room, and his phone and my line come out of one of those double things that let you get into the same phone point. I also have a phone in my room which also connects to the same extension cord as my notebook. Why would I be getting all these operation timed out messages just over the last couple of weeks ? We have had this same cord situation since March and it was very, very rare to get even 1 a month. Regards Marg. |
pulling hair out (4493) | ||
| 264231 | 2004-08-22 11:28:00 | Nope, although it is said that what you are doing is a problem, I have not found it to be so, in fact the oposite seems to be true for me. For example, the phone socket into my house comes in the bedroom, I have an extension cord connected into a triple then to another triple then I have three phones and an answerphone plus my modem connected. I used to also run through a curly cord because of physical geometry of the room at one time and that is when I used to get my fastest connection speeds! The cables (extension cords) run under the bed and over and around the door frames and across the floors to the kitchen with no seeming detriment in connection. I have down loaded 158 megs and around that figure a number of times with no problems overnight at about 4.7Kb/s. To sum up, I have a number of other units connected in a spider web configuration plus long lengths of cord and about two triples and a double plug all stacked to do what I want plus some connections that go nowhere that I sometimes use. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 264232 | 2004-08-22 11:36:00 | When I first connected to Clear about two years ago I used to get virtually instantaneous connections every time I dialled in but lately I get messages like "your computer and the remote computer cannot agree on PPP protocols" and such like or "the remote computer has hung up" and other things. Just when I think I really must do something I will get a few days of normal operation then it starts happening again. My best guess is that the ISP's have new and old equip and when there are not many people using the internet at any time on the local ISP you probably get the best units but as more people come on line one starts to get dodgy gear. Just a guess. Long time ago I used to get cut off for reasons unknown but lately once I am online I can stay on for hours no problem. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 264233 | 2004-08-23 03:59:00 | Hi all Yip this seems to be happening to me too. Posted recently to see if anyone could come up with a solution but not much luck. I'm with xtra and from time to time get all these funny errors when trying to connect. Usually PPP or ISP and my computer couldn't agree etc and no reply from ISP. Damn weird. Also things will be running good then everything will stop for a while then away we go again. Only seems to have started around 5 months ago. I'm on the verge of sending a stern e-mail to xtra to try and get to the bottom of this. |
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