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Eug Wanker · Dec 11, 2004, 08:14 AM

Is anyone having problems getting to some sites today (and yesterday). I'm on Bell Sympatico.

Working:

www.macnn.com
www.cubeowner.com

Not working:

www.apple.com
www.cnn.com

I'm thinking it is something wonky with my ISP.

brapper · Dec 11, 2004, 08:28 AM

working for this guy...

Cadaver · Dec 11, 2004, 08:31 AM

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
I'm thinking it is something wonky with my ISP.

I'm thinking you'd be right.

Eug Wanker · Dec 11, 2004, 08:42 AM

ISP's DNS server maybe?

DeathToWindows · Dec 11, 2004, 10:55 AM

working for me

ManOfSteal · Dec 11, 2004, 10:59 AM

I turned on the Christmas lights this morning on the house...sorry about that, I turned them back off now and you should be fine.

koogz · Dec 11, 2004, 11:00 AM

I accidentally tripped on the intranet's plug this morning. Sorry about that. Should work now.

ReggieX · Dec 11, 2004, 11:06 AM

You should post a thread over in the MacNN Forums, someone there can get to work on fixing it right awa

agentz · Dec 11, 2004, 11:37 AM

Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
I turned on the Christmas lights this morning on the house...sorry about that, I turned them back off now and you should be fine.

Hee and not so much

rjenkinson · Dec 11, 2004, 11:40 AM

Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
I turned on the Christmas lights this morning on the house...sorry about that, I turned them back off now and you should be fine.

and here i thought you were a guy all this time, but it turns out your name is... mary?

-r.

ManOfSteal · Dec 11, 2004, 11:45 AM

Originally posted by rjenkinson:
and here i thought you were a guy all this time, but it turns out your name is... mary?

-r.

No, Mary is my personal "ass"istant.

Eug Wanker · Dec 12, 2004, 12:14 PM

So I was having problems on and off all thru Friday and Saturday. Got fed up and switched ISPs. Now, for about the same price, I'm getting real-life speeds of 4500 kbps down and 700 up.

(It's officially an 5000/800 account.)

Excellent...

bradoesch · Dec 12, 2004, 12:18 PM

Who are you with now?

Eug Wanker · Dec 12, 2004, 12:22 PM

Originally posted by bradoesch:
Who are you with now?

Rogers (Toronto). I had to buy the modem though, but it was not expensive, and I got several discounts that paid for much of it. It was the easiest setup ever, too. No PPPoE to worry about.

I feel sad for those people on Windows XP SP1 and no firewall though... The cable modem setup is too easy. It's much easier than downloading SP2 and/or setting up a firewall.

Now this Cube G4 450 almost seems speedy. Well, not quite. I can't wait until my CPU upgrade arrives.

Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
I turned on the Christmas lights this morning on the house...sorry about that, I turned them back off now and you should be fine.

That actually happened close to here a couple of weeks ago. Somebody's Xmas light extravaganza knocked out the power to the whole neighbourhood. It wasn't the lights per se. I think a tree branch from one of the trees getting lights hit the power lines or something.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 12, 2004, 12:24 PM

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
So I was having problems on and off all thru Friday and Saturday. Got fed up and switched ISPs. Now, for about the same price, I'm getting real-life speeds of 4500 kbps down and 700 up. (It's officially an 5000/800 account.)

Now you can clock your downtime and times at 8pm.

Eug Wanker · Dec 12, 2004, 12:33 PM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Now you can clock your downtime and times at 8pm.

Here's hoping.

When I first moved here, I was on Rogers. Then everyone started getting Rogers and it slowed dramatically. I complained a couple of times and just about when I was going to switch to Sympatico, they increased the bandwidth to my area and speeds shot up dramatically. Then another year went by and it started to slow again, cuz everyone else was getting Rogers. So I switched to Bell Sympatico.

Bell Sympatico was OK, but I'd sometimes have issues with PPPoE authentication and local interference (and unreliable mail service). It got better, but in the past few months the problems have increased. PPPoE authentication is still sometimes an issue (at least with my router), but more importantly on and off the net would just slow to a crawl, any time of the day for no good reason. Why MacNN would work and Apple or CNN wouldn't is beyond me.

So I switched back to Rogers Cable. I'm guessing that sometime last year my neighbourhood probably hit close to saturation in terms of numbers of homes with cable broadband, so I hope that Rogers has increased bandwidth to the neighbourhood accordingly. If so, I'm OK. If not, then...

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 12, 2004, 12:40 PM

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:

Bell Sympatico was OK, but I'd sometimes have issues with PPPoE authentication and local interference (and unreliable mail service). It got better, but in the past few months the problems have increased. PPPoE authentication is still sometimes an issue (at least with my router), but more importantly on and off the net would just slow to a crawl, any time of the day for no good reason. Why MacNN would work and Apple.com/CNN.com wouldn't is beyond me.

Why Apple would work and not CNN? How about because one website or router is down and not the other? It has little to do with your ISP.

I have had Sympatico since the week it come out in 98 (or 99 perhaps) and in the past 2 years I have had ONE 3 hour period very late in the night when they schedule maintenance. I have never had a single PPoE authentication error, that might be your router.

They did have problems with their mail a year ago when all those PC virus's were floating around but they couldn't do much but try to get everyone to get virus software.

Good luck with the Rogers because you are in a new area with new cable but since you are downtown I bet everyone and their mother has it and it will be flakey as hell. I had it for 2 weeks and it was down for 4 of 14 days and slow 14ksec even though I had next to nobody on it in my area.

Eug Wanker · Dec 12, 2004, 01:01 PM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Why Apple would work and not CNN? How about because one website or router is down and not the other? It has little to do with your ISP.

It was the ISP. Half the net was down for me. I wonder if it was a DNS server. CNN didn't work. Globeandmail didn't work. eBay didn't work. Yahoo.ca didn't work. And the list goes on. Yet MacNN and CubeOwner did work. When my router screws up, everything goes down.

I have had Sympatico since the week it come out in 98 (or 99 perhaps) and in the past 2 years I have had ONE 3 hour period very late in the night when they schedule maintenance.

I've had it go down a couple of times, once for a day.

I have never had a single PPoE authentication error, that might be your router.

Yep, it could be my router, but it's been the same with several different routers.

They did have problems with their mail a year ago when all those PC virus's were floating around but they couldn't do much but try to get everyone to get virus software.

Yeah, from what I hear, Rogers had mail problems too.

Good luck with the Rogers because you are in a new area with new cable but since you are downtown I bet everyone and their mother has it and it will be flakey as hell. I had it for 2 weeks and it was down for 4 of 14 days and slow 14ksec even though I had next to nobody on it in my area.

When I had Rogers before, it wasn't flaky, but it would slow down at peak times. When they upgraded the system to increase bandwidth, it was fast again at peak times. Then when more people got cable it would slow down again at peak times.

Talking with my neighbours though, it seems the number of people getting it has slowed dramatically. Way back when I first got here, nobody had it (for reasons unknown to me). Then they realized what they were missing and for about 2 years everyone was getting DSL or Rogers. Lately I haven't heard anyone talk about it, probably because (I think) the people who want it, already have it. (It's a kidless neighbourhood of either middle class young people, or middle class retirees, so the extra $25 a month for for broadband over dialup isn't really an issue in my neighbourhood.)

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 12, 2004, 01:03 PM

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
It was the ISP. Half the net was down for me. I wonder if it was a DNS server. CNN didn't work. Globeandmail didn't work. eBay didn't work. Yahoo.ca didn't work. And the list goes on. Yet MacNN and CubeOwner did work. When my router screws up, everything goes down.

No no, INTERNET routers, not the one in your house. Sometimes the west coast goes down and has nothing to do with your ISP or home setup. Sometimes a fiber optic cable gets cut and half the internet is down.

Eug Wanker · Dec 12, 2004, 01:06 PM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
No no, INTERNET routers, not the one in your house. Sometimes the west coast goes down and has nothing to do with your ISP or home setup. Sometimes a fiber optic cable gets cut and half the internet is down.

Yup. I agree. That's why I started this thread. Did you have problems on Friday or Saturday though?

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Dec 12, 2004, 01:33 PM

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Yup. I agree. That's why I started this thread. Did you have problems on Friday or Saturday though?

Friday between 6pm -3 am was fine, same goes for Sat from 10pm to 2am.

I think on Wens (or thurs) night at 2am it went totally dead but it was a scheduled maintenance.

Luca Rescigno · Dec 12, 2004, 03:54 PM

Is teh intarnet broken?

Noes.

macaddict0001 · Dec 12, 2004, 05:34 PM

da innernet, it is, how you say, born broken

Anders · Dec 12, 2004, 05:42 PM

Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
I turned on the Christmas lights this morning on the house...sorry about that, I turned them back off now and you should be fine.

Power over Ethernet?

turtle777 · Dec 13, 2004, 10:21 AM

Originally posted by koogz:
I accidentally tripped on the intranet's plug this morning. Sorry about that. Should work now.

You do know that the intranet IS NOT teh intarnet ?

-t

nforcer · Dec 14, 2004, 04:47 AM

For a more correct way to say it in a noobish manner, let me suggest:
- Teh intarnat
- Teh intarwab!!!11
- TEH AOLS!
- Teh netsc8pes~~!

Peter · Dec 14, 2004, 05:41 AM

Originally posted by nforcer:
For a more correct way to say it in a noobish manner, let me suggest:
- Teh intarnat
- Teh intarwab!!!11
- TEH AOLS!
- Teh netsc8pes~~!

no

Eug Wanker · Dec 14, 2004, 10:02 AM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Now you can clock your downtime and times at 8pm.

No noticeable slowdown at 8 pm for me. Dunno if it's because I'm on the 5 Megabit plan. Maybe there are slowdowns for the 3 Megabit group.

It went down once... when the push-on cable came off. I guess I'll go invest $2 on screw-on cables.