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Thread Author: Fenlander Replies: 16
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 10:57 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - Fenlander
Anyone notice net issues this morning?

I can get Google, this site, a small washing machine spares supplier, Comet and random others.

But I cant get Wikki, Currys, EBay, PC World, Youtube, BBC.... Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage comes up.

I've only ever known it on or off not selected sites only.
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 11:01 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - Iffy
...Anyone notice net issues this morning...

The wireless broadband at the caravan site in leafy North Yorkshire has been painfully slow at times this morning.

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New Mon 27 Sep 10 11:03 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - Zero
Nope fine with me, I am on Tiscali/TalkTalk, West London trunk.

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New Mon 27 Sep 10 11:07 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - Pat
It's fine for me Fenlander, and I have used BBC, Ebay and Amazon this morning with Tiscali/Talk Talk

Pat
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 11:11 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - Fenlander
Odd. It must be our ISP (Freedom2Surf part of Tiscali) doing a bit of bandwidth management for some reason.... maintenance perhaps??

Damn annoying when the tumble dryer failed last night and urgent repair/replace research is needed.
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 12:24 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - RattleandSmoke
Sounds like you're having DNS issues. You might want to try www.opendns.com :).

Should solve your problems and speed up website loading times by about a second in the process.
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 12:31 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - Mike Hannon
No issues here - the rural France half-megabyte broadband is as carp as ever.
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 12:38 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - Fenlander
Just managed to get onto my ISP's service status page. It shows a *core network outage* as a rolling incident.

Weird how this site is one of a very few that will load OK... if a little slowly.

What is the function of that DNS software Rattle?
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 13:04 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - Zero
On the tinternet, everything is addressed by numbers in the format

nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

Mr Human cant relate to that, so they are given names.

BBC.COM.

Someone or something has to match (resolve) what you type in in letters, into the actual
address in numbers.

The domain name server does this for you. Your ISP automatically connects you to one, usually under their control. If it goes down, your PC cant find things.

You can direct your PC to look at other Domain Names Servers (DNS) if you so wish,

Google public domain dns to find out how its done, if you feel the need.



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New Mon 27 Sep 10 12:39 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - Zero
Never mind, more time to enjoy the vino
Sent from my iPhone, sitting outside the cafe, expresso in hand
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 20:20 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - MD
0.2 in rural north Devon Mr. Hannon. Fink yerself lucky.
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 12:48 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - hawkeye

>> Damn annoying when the tumble dryer failed last night and urgent repair/replace research is needed.
>>

I've just diverted a customer's working tumble dryer from the tip to the local swimming pool ....

But you didn't want to know that, did you?
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 12:46 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - hawkeye
Fine for me in N Yorks on Talk talk/Tiscali

>> Nope fine with me, I am on Tiscali/TalkTalk, West London trunk.
>>
I thought trunk calls went out ages ago :->
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 13:12 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - Iffy
I've just diverted a customer's working tumble dryer from the tip to the local swimming pool ....But you didn't want to know that, did you?...

Nor do the divers when they hit the blinkin' thing.

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New Mon 27 Sep 10 13:39 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - madf
I am on Virgin Media - (was NTL).

It was rubbish 6 years ago. Now it's very good. Cannot remember the last major issue I had...because it was so long ago.

Works ok today.

Stop being a skinflint and get a better ISP..
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 13:58 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - Fenlander
>>>Stop being a skinflint and get a better ISP..

All pretty well the same price though aren't they. This outage is very unusual... but when I have needed them they have a friendly UK helpline that tells you the answer correctly and in a minute or two. No leading you round the houses for 20mins on premium rates.
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New Mon 27 Sep 10 21:41 
 Internet - Odd performance today? - Buddy
If you've a mobile with O2, they do (or did in July) a package that includes broadband and home phone (landline) for around £11 a month - I changed and halved what I was paying Virgin. Did the swop via Simplydigital - pretty smooth process.
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