Anyone else have an outage this morning?

[Simon]

I got up this morning and found my phone had a wifi connection, but no Internet, so checked the computer and also no internet.  All the lights on the router were correctly green, but I rebooted it anyway, and Internet was restored.  Anyone else?

[Gary]

I got up this morning and found my phone had a wifi connection, but no Internet, so checked the computer and also no internet.  All the lights on the router were correctly green, but I rebooted it anyway, and Internet was restored.  Anyone else?

All is as dire here as it was yesterday  but no loss of connection this am, Simon.

[Simon]

It'th a mythtery.   

[J!ll]

A what? 

[Glenn]

It's the iphone spelling.

[J!ll]

Is that what it's called 

[Gary]

It'th a mythtery.   

Well Toyah did lisp a bit 

[Simon]

Heard it on the radio the other day.  Great drummer, Toyah had, now in Saxon. 

[Gary]

Saxon still going, Wow. Saying that so are Judas Priest.

[Simon]

Indeed.  All looking a little tired these days.    Oddly enough, even as a fan of the genre, I was never particularly into either of those bands, although I did see Saxon live once or twice in the 80s. 

[Gary]

Indeed.  All looking a little tired these days.    Oddly enough, even as a fan of the genre, I was never particularly into either of those bands, although I did see Saxon live once or twice in the 80s. 

Same here, I saw UFO once, didnt like them much 

[Simon]

I saw UFO a few times, and quite liked them.  They're still going too! 

[Gary]

I saw UFO a few times, and quite liked them.  They're still going too! 

I'm starting to feel quite old, Simon. 

[Simon]

You and me both! 

[Glenn]

UFO were spaced out. 

[Gary]

UFO were spaced out. 

[Simon]

Many a true word... 

[Den]

I thought Saxon made leather furniture at their Bolton factory. 

[Simon]

[sparky]

I've been away, but just checked my router logs and:-

[Internet disconnected] Tuesday, March 26,2013 02:03:12

then up and down for a few hours until:-

[Internet connected] IP address: xx.xxx.x.xxx, Tuesday, March 26,2013 05:43:34       

I'm on an 01202 number if that's any significance. All seems well for the past 38 hrs though.......

[Simon]

I had one other blip that evening, and had to reboot the router again, but it's been fine since.  I'm in Mid Sussex.

[Simon]

This is still happening, randomly, but seemingly at least once every day or so.  The router lights all stay on, and it appears as though I'm connected, but with no Internet.  I'm beginning to think it's the router, as I tried reconnecting without rebooting this evening, and when I disconnected, the red light then came on on the router, and it wouldn't reconnect without a reboot.  This is a newish Netgear DGN2200v3.  I'm thinking of going back to my old 2Wire, but am equally tempted to try something new.  I've been looking at the Billion 7800N, but some of them just seem to be 7800 without the N.  Is there a difference?

[Lance]

Without the N is a non wireless version.

I've been running the 7800n since getting FTTC and its been rock solid.

[Gary]

7800N is a great router from what I read but with more devices coming out using 5Ghz I would look for a dual band router myself. I'm using a DGND4000 and very happy with that. The iPhone is happier I find on the 5Ghz band for a start.

[Simon]

Sorry Gary, I'm not sure in what context 5Ghz is relevant.    All I want is for it to stay connected to the bloody Internet! 

[Gary]

Sorry Gary, I'm not sure in what context 5Ghz is relevant.    All I want is for it to stay connected to the bloody Internet! 

If you are buying a new router is good to look at whats coming to market so you dont have to buy another router again. 5ghz over 2.4Ghz is now getting more popular for wireless devices, buying a solely 2.4Ghz device I think would be maybe a mistake personaly as a dual band router gives you the flexibility of running both.Buying a device that suits your needs now but may not in six months could be an issue, thats all. Hence why I say look at Dual band routers.  Most new phones run on 5Ghz and you get better speeds than with 2.4Ghz and less interference too.

[Simon]

OK, I'll give it some more thought tomorrow. 

[Gary]

OK, I'll give it some more thought tomorrow. 

And on that note with Firefox 20 freaking out and trying to restore sessions when its not meant to (20.0.1 soon I bet) I'm off to bed before my head explodes 

[Simon]

To be honest, I feel that over £200 is a lot to pay for a router, especially when I have no use for the 5Ghz at the moment.  I may just go for the 7800N.

[Lance]

I wouldn't personally worry about 5ghz unless you happen to have a very large number of strongly competing 2.4ghz wifi networks and you have the devices which will make use of it.

The 2.4ghz band isn't going to be defunct any time soon, and I'm sure that all devices for the foreseeable future will be backwards compatible.

[Simon]

Thanks Lance, and for your previous 'N' clarification.  I just have a feeling that this DGN2200 isn't quite right, or simply isn't that good.  I had problems with it from the start, when I had to manually enter the DNS, as browsing was very slow when set to Auto.

[Niall]

Thanks Lance, and for your previous 'N' clarification.  I just have a feeling that this DGN2200 isn't quite right, or simply isn't that good.  I had problems with it from the start, when I had to manually enter the DNS, as browsing was very slow when set to Auto.

Same with mine. I swapped it within a month or so of having it, to the 7800N. Immediately I noticed web pages loaded faster and at worst, more consistently.

[Simon]

Thanks, Niall.  At least that's more evidence of the router not playing ball, than a connection issue.

[Niall]

This was going back to ADSL+ though, rather than fibre. Speed wise, I never saw a change, just the stability and web side of things.