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| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 |  Posted - Sep 2 2007 : 9:14PMI think I've posted here about my DSL woes before but this evening, I had a truly puzzling experience with my DSL connection. I was just surfing as I always do when BOOM! my connection was suddenly gone. No problemo, I thought. I'll just reset the modem. Works the first time 70% of the time. Not so simple. Over the next two hours, I reset, unplugged, rebooted my computer. Nothing seemed to work. The Windows "Diagnose and repair" tool kept telling me it found a problem that couldn't be fixed automatically (might be nice if it told me what it was). I finally gave up in frustration and went to take a shower. I came back to find the connection had fixed itself in my absence. What the fuck? Oh well. This shit's weird. [Link] |
Hardware  All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Sep 2 2007 : 10:47PM [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Sep 3 2007 : 3:11AM [Link] |
| licker Senior Member Heretic, Iconoclast, Skeptic 1141 Posts 8/03 | Posted - Sep 3 2007 : 9:20AM My ISP swore there was nothing wrong with their network, and the support staff at the company who made the modem even supplied me with some secret command sequences to put its router into bridge mode, thus eliminating any possibility of layer 3 routing faults between me and the ISP. Eventually they concluded that my router/modem was faulty and authorized me to get a free replacement. Meanwhile I had bought a second modem to use while the replacement was being shipped, but before I got a chance to plug it in, my service magically reappeared with the old modem. My ISP attributed the entire two day outage to some unspecified "fault with the carrier's exchange equipment". As a former data communications analyst, I was definitely NOT impressed. [Link] |
| otik Member Mushroom Kingdom 223 Posts 1/05 | Posted - Sep 3 2007 : 10:13AM [Link] |
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| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Sep 3 2007 : 1:44PM These things also seem cyclical. I'll go months with a rock solid connection, then a period of a couple weeks where things are a mess, then back to solidity again. [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Sep 3 2007 : 3:16PM Edited by - randomprecision on 9/3/2007 3:17:43 PM [Link] |
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