Any problems tonight?

Niall · Jul 06, 2011, 00:02:38

I'll get on to IDnet support tomorrow. I'm not putting up with it anymore. It's taking the piss now. I haven't had a stable connection for months, and as I was told the line was fine I've spent £200 on routers. As I mentioned, a mate says he had the same issue when the box outside his house was damp (according to the engineer). It's got to be external as I've removed absolutely EVERYTHING from the equation now, and run out of money to do anything more.

Niall · Jul 10, 2011, 14:35:40

Well something has gone pop. On top of my constant disconnections, ongoing for 2 months now, I've lost my connection and have been given one of those 172. Ip addresses and can't connect to anything. This is awesome.

Steve · Jul 10, 2011, 14:43:34

That's a local IP address isn't i.e issue between network adaptor and router DHCP server

Niall · Jul 10, 2011, 15:43:28

It came back after a reboot. From looking through the forums, it's what happens when there's a problem at exchanges/hubs (or whatever they're called).

Hostlinks! That's the one. I think

Steve · Jul 10, 2011, 16:07:24

172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 are the private IP addresses

Niall · Jul 10, 2011, 17:38:44

What's that mean?

pctech · Jul 10, 2011, 18:52:37

Reserved for private networking i.e. within a house or small office when using NAT

192.168.x.x and 10.x.x.x are other examples (x can be a number between 0 and 255)

sparky · Jul 10, 2011, 19:35:16

Is Idnet.com email down?

sparky · Jul 10, 2011, 19:52:21

idnet.com email is down.

This is annoying....................

An unknown error has occurred.

Server: 'smtp.idnet.com'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x80070057
Protocol: SMTP
Port: 25
Secure(SSL): No

Niall · Jul 10, 2011, 19:59:45

Quote from: pctech on Jul 10, 2011, 18:52:37
Reserved for private networking i.e. within a house or small office when using NAT

192.168.x.x and 10.x.x.x are other examples (x can be a number between 0 and 255)

I thought that's what they meant, but assumed I'd got the wrong end of the stick. If you scan the forums, you'll find a few people that have had disconnects being reassigned an IP like the one I had. I've had the same problem myself when there were issues a while ago. The IP I was assigned was from the ISP, not on the router as I set my own IP address (for the network at home), rather than leaving it as dynamic.

I'm assuming something has gone wrong as there are more people than just myself reporting a variety of issues.

Steve · Jul 10, 2011, 20:27:22

Quote from: sparky on Jul 10, 2011, 19:52:21
idnet.com email is down.

This is annoying....................

An unknown error has occurred.

Server: 'smtp.idnet.com'
Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x80070057
Protocol: SMTP
Port: 25
Secure(SSL): No

Seems fine to me

sparky · Jul 10, 2011, 20:34:17

Well it isn't working for me.

I have just tried logging in to my account via webmail and that isn't working either.

sparky · Jul 10, 2011, 20:37:19

Well, now it is...........kind of.

I can check my inbox, but mail won't send..........................

sparky · Jul 10, 2011, 20:49:40

OK. Sorry guys.

Looks like it was something to do with windows live mail trying to send pictures!

Deleted the two mails that had the photo's in and the rest went fine........

Still confused though as to what I did, haven't had that problem before.................

Steve · Jul 10, 2011, 22:05:00

Were they large pictures?

pctech · Jul 10, 2011, 22:41:07

Quote from: Niall on Jul 10, 2011, 19:59:45
I thought that's what they meant, but assumed I'd got the wrong end of the stick. If you scan the forums, you'll find a few people that have had disconnects being reassigned an IP like the one I had. I've had the same problem myself when there were issues a while ago. The IP I was assigned was from the ISP, not on the router as I set my own IP address (for the network at home), rather than leaving it as dynamic.

I'm assuming something has gone wrong as there are more people than just myself reporting a variety of issues.

And if you see a 169.254.x.x one and your machine is configured to get an address via DHCP from the router it means it received no DHCP response from the router.

zappaDPJ · Jul 12, 2011, 00:29:07

My throughput is abysmal tonight. I don't have enough bandwidth to watch anything on BBC iPlayer and browsing is painfully slow.

Bill · Jul 12, 2011, 00:33:27

The post-midnight packet loss is bad tonight... BQMs in sig.

I still think IDNet need more bandwidth somewhere.

zappaDPJ · Jul 12, 2011, 00:52:27

I don't seem to have the bandwidth to see your sig or anything else containing an image for that matter

I just ran a BT speedtest which prompted a 'Tap3 Test Configuration'. The result of that was...

QuoteThe system is currently busy. Please try again shortly, however if this problem persists, raise the issue with your service provider

I ran that error message through Babel Fish and it translated as Your connection is shite, no test results for you

As we all know, you can't conduct another test for an hour or until your connection is running at or above acceptable levels. It's the best con in town!

Bill · Jul 12, 2011, 01:00:07

Quote from: zappaDPJ on Jul 12, 2011, 00:52:27As we all know, you can't conduct another test for an hour

No, that's not true... there's only an hour delay after a successful test (ie it gets as far as telling you your profile

)

If it fails you can try again immediately. And sometimes it works!

zappaDPJ · Jul 12, 2011, 01:11:29

What I'm getting when I try to retest is...

QuoteYou appear to be logged in as ********@*****.***. In order to run the next test you must login as speedtest@speedtest_domain.

Please wait while you are redirected.

It never redirects. I suspect it actually has logged test results though and will continue with that message until the hour is up.

Bill · Jul 12, 2011, 01:25:57

You may well be right, I've never seen that message myself.

More evidence that, as a diagnostic tool, it's borked

Niall · Jul 14, 2011, 18:16:04

Email sent to support. It's engineer time. If BT say there's nothing wrong with the line, then good luck getting £160 out of me as I've spent all my money on routers

Worst-service · Jul 16, 2011, 17:48:28

My connection has dropped a few times since 17:00. Not a single day without connection problems. Fed up with IDnet. IDNet = bad

Rik · Jul 16, 2011, 17:52:28

Do you mean sync or PPP?