Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > > > >>-Original Message- >>From: steve [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] >>Sent: Sunday, 14 June 2009 6:44 p.m. >>At one job, the most sensible/cost effective way to provide >>fairly reliable internet access was to have 2 ADSL routers,

Warranties (was RE: Internet shortages)

2009-06-15 Thread Hadley Rich
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 09:57 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > Is this right for them to be able to do this - dodgy manufacturers can > just keep giving out cheap dodgy replacements until the warranty runs > out... Unfortunately yes. hads -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's Open Source Hardware S

RE: Internet shortages

2009-06-15 Thread Bryce Stenberg
>-Original Message- >From: steve [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] >Sent: Sunday, 14 June 2009 6:44 p.m. >At one job, the most sensible/cost effective way to provide >fairly reliable internet access was to have 2 ADSL routers, and when the >one in use failed, the spare was put in and the

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-15 Thread Euan Clark
Dan Wallis wrote: 2009/6/15 Roger Searle : Very similar situation at home in that there is no connection - AFTER SOME HOURS OF INACTIVITY - for example while we have been away from home for 9 or so hours (though router, ISP, geographical location etc are all different). I have no further clue

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-15 Thread Dan Wallis
2009/6/15 Roger Searle : > Very similar situation at home in that there is no connection - AFTER SOME > HOURS OF INACTIVITY - for example while we have been away from home for 9 or > so hours (though router, ISP, geographical location etc are all different). > I have no further clues, and just take

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-14 Thread Roger Searle
Nick Rout wrote: Isn't that the adsl modem doled out free/cheap by telecom? I guess you get what you pay for :) not sure, i don't use them, particularly those things with USB ports - aren't they often dynalink things? anyway the one here has 4 ethernet ports, they are commonplace (so others

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Roger Searle wrote: > Roy Britten wrote: >> >> 2009/6/14 Ryan McCoskrie : >> >>> >>> Does this sound familiar to anyone? >>> >>> Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working >>> order and all report that they are connected to each other and the

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-14 Thread Roger Searle
Roy Britten wrote: 2009/6/14 Ryan McCoskrie : Does this sound familiar to anyone? Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet but you can't actually access anything online? I've just reset the r

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-14 Thread Roy Britten
2009/6/14 Ryan McCoskrie : > Does this sound familiar to anyone? > > Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working > order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet > but you can't actually access anything online? > I've just reset the router and it's

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-14 Thread Kent Fredric
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:08 AM, chris wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:07 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: > > I discovered that problem some time in April when a friend called me up > to go > > around to her house to fix her Internet router. > > > > It pinged slashdot, microsoft, google, and even x

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-14 Thread chris
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:07 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: > I discovered that problem some time in April when a friend called me up to go > around to her house to fix her Internet router. > > It pinged slashdot, microsoft, google, and even xtra okay, it just wouldn't > let http traffic through. I

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-14 Thread Kent Fredric
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Wesley Parish wrote: > > It pinged slashdot, microsoft, google, and even xtra okay, it just wouldn't > let http traffic through. I gave up in the end, as there was nothing I > could > see to do without having the router password, and she didn't know it. > Genera

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-14 Thread Wesley Parish
I discovered that problem some time in April when a friend called me up to go around to her house to fix her Internet router. It pinged slashdot, microsoft, google, and even xtra okay, it just wouldn't let http traffic through. I gave up in the end, as there was nothing I could see to do witho

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-13 Thread steve
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 16:39 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > The other answer is that consumer grade dsl modems and modem/routers > just sometimes lost the plot. > > But there are many reasons. The only way to tell is by time tested > methods with ping, traceroute and other similar tools, testing ip > a

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-13 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Craig Falconer wrote: > Ryan McCoskrie wrote, On 14/06/09 09:58: >> >> Does this sound familiar to anyone? >> Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working >> order and all report that they are connected to each other and the >> internet >> but y

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-13 Thread Craig Falconer
Ryan McCoskrie wrote, On 14/06/09 09:58: Does this sound familiar to anyone? Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet but you can't actually access anything online? I've just reset the router and

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-13 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 09:57 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > Does this sound familiar to anyone? > > Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working > order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet > but you can't actually access anything online? > I've

Re: Internet shortages

2009-06-13 Thread Robert Fisher
On Sunday 14 June 2009 09:57:41 Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > I'd like to know > if anyone has had this problem recently (withen the last week) and > knows what it is. Not in the last week but recently I had the same problem. Rob

Internet shortages

2009-06-13 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet but you can't actually access anything online? I've just reset the router and it's all working now but I'd like to know