Will tonights work affect all ISP's or just IDnet?
AFAIK, all, Paul. It's work on BT routers and fibre, so I'm guessing that sync won't drop but PPP will, hence the stale session warning.
oh ok.. i wont do what i had planned tonight while i slept then..
thanks :)
Do I want to know the details, Paul?? :o ;D
Quote from: psp83 on Mar 03, 2008, 18:34:20i wont do what i had planned tonight while i slept then..
the mind boggles ;D
hehe, Its just something i was going to run between this pc and my pc at work.
Just got in from work.
what's happening tonight???
Should i take an alcoholic anesthetic and go to bed early???
I would ;D
Quote from: xild on Mar 03, 2008, 18:39:46
Just got in from work.
what's happening tonight???
Should i take an alcoholic anesthetic and go to bed early???
BT engineering work, Ted, likely to cause an hour of downtime between midnight and 6am. Possibility of stale sessions, so you might want to give your router the night off.
Bang goes my midnight chats to the other side of the world :'(
My youngest son wont be happy, he's usually on until small hours of the morning :D
midnight to 6am lets me off the hook, can barely keep my eyes open now!! ;D
We don't know when it will go down, just the time span. My hunch is 2am, but that's only because I intend to be asleep at the time. :)
Quote from: Rik on Mar 03, 2008, 18:45:48
We don't know when it will go down, just the time span. My hunch is 2am, but that's only because I intend to be asleep at the time. :)
:thumb:
Quote from: Rik on Mar 03, 2008, 18:45:48
We don't know when it will go down, just the time span. My hunch is 2am, but that's only because I intend to be asleep at the time. :)
Like all good boys should be eh Rik? ;)
Which is why, of course, I'm often in here at the time. ;)
:lol:
Quote from: Rik on Mar 03, 2008, 19:01:40
Which is why, of course, I'm often in here at the time. ;)
You naughty boy! you're supposed to set a good example to these youngsters. :evil:
I do, Ted. I sit here with the shotgun and chase them out. ;)
Does any other isp let u you know about bt work ...................................... No good old idnet .
:bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:
We'll all be sitting here waiting for nothing to start happening, and BT will surprise us by not doing the work. :)
Quote from: RA-1972 on Mar 03, 2008, 19:10:56
Does any other isp let u you know about bt work ...................................... No good old idnet .
mine do usually and they havent mentioned this....... ???
Quote from: Rik on Mar 03, 2008, 18:45:48
My hunch is 2am, but that's only because I intend to be asleep at the time. :)
Wrong !!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D
maybe i missed it, but is 5:45 and haven't seen it drop ;-)
Don't know if it actually happened cos I slept through it, but everything seems fine this morning :fingers:
Well I had my router unplugged so I have no idea, thought I would give it a night off for once
Quote from: Killhippie on Mar 04, 2008, 07:12:26
Well I had my router unplugged so I have no idea, thought I would give it a night off for once
a night off? You're being far too kind to it Gary ;D
Quote from: madasahatter on Mar 04, 2008, 07:54:22
a night off? You're being far too kind to it Gary ;D
well it works hard and never has a day off.....bit like someone in a trainer factory in Indonesia :rant2: So I thought I should set an example to other routers in my area and let it have the night off ;) So by doing that the work would not have happened of course ::)
Well my PPoA was down for 64mins last night.. Logs didnt show nothing thou.
I had to reboot my router this morning, but I got a bonus from it, an extra 100kbs in connection rate, not enough to raise my profile though.
Quote from: psp83 on Mar 04, 2008, 08:25:52
Well my PPoA was down for 64mins last night.. Logs didnt show nothing thou.
So my routers little sleep was worth while after all ;D
I wonder if this is work which only affected some parts of the BT network. I also gave my router the night off, so all I can say is I gained some speed this morning. :)
Quote from: Rik on Mar 04, 2008, 08:47:26
I wonder if this is work which only affected some parts of the BT network. I also gave my router the night off, so all I can say is I gained some speed this morning. :)
I think you could be right, Rik, nothing appears to have happened here, nothing in the logs and my DSL and Internet uptime are showing 18 days. :)
The wording of the BT advice was so vague, Ray, that it was anyone's guess as to what was going to happen. One day, we'll take no notice and they'll do something major. :)
I left my router on as usual and this morning it says that it's been connected for 104 hours and there's nothing in the logs for last night/this morning.
Well, we know something happened, Noreen, but so far BT seem to have targeted only Paul. Now, he's had a previous overnight drop with the rolling programme, so I wonder if the two events are linked?
Is it anything to do with Geographical location? Here in Hoobland (or Yorkshire as the rest of the country calls it ;)) nothing seems to have happened at all. Or does that mean that nasty old BT simply forgot about us?
It means BT are keeping you on the piece of wet string. ;)
:lol:
Sounds about right ;D
Be grateful, here in Milton Keynes, all they can afford is a single thread... :o
Quote from: Rik on Mar 04, 2008, 10:13:12
Well, we know something happened, Noreen, but so far BT seem to have targeted only Paul. Now, he's had a previous overnight drop with the rolling programme, so I wonder if the two events are linked?
BT always pick on me :'(
:banana2:
Someone has to be the sacrificial lamb, Paul. ;) (How very Paschal of me ;D)
Quote from: Rik on Mar 04, 2008, 11:40:36
Someone has to be the sacrificial lamb, Paul. ;) (How very Paschal of me ;D)
And almost seasonal Rik ;)
Lost my connection at 01.38am today, stayed sync'd , it reconnected immediately afterwards.
Odd, maybe someone tripped over a cable at the exchange...
I had a blip at around that time as well, perhaps BT got the date wrong. ;D
No blips on the radar here, unless BT are doing it in shifts for areas around the country
Quote from: Inactive on Mar 05, 2008, 10:43:40
I had a blip at around that time as well, perhaps BT got the date wrong. ;D
Wouldn't be the first time, or it could just be the ongoing maintenance programme that runs until the 20th. That was supposed to bring a 20 minute downtime, but reports have all been of much shorter outages.
Mine was 6 minutes, as you have said Rik, the twenty minutes is a cover all number in case of eventualities
Had another blip last night just after midnight, no loss of sync but PPP again, this is getting quite regular :eyebrow:
Thu, 2008-03-06 00:31:45 - Initialize LCP.
Thu, 2008-03-06 00:31:45 - LCP is allowed to come up.
Thu, 2008-03-06 00:32:12 - CHAP authentication
Might be worth a word with support, Gary, see if they can spot anything from their logs.
Quote from: Rik on Mar 06, 2008, 11:06:06
Might be worth a word with support, Gary, see if they can spot anything from their logs.
will do Rik
Mystery to support, think I had Miriam, I'm always so impressed with how fast they come up with answers even if they are not pointing at anything much, seems its probably BT again forcing PPP down doing work but not letting people know where and when, as my exchange was not listed for work, but if its only small amounts BT wont tell anyone anyway ::) Its great to have IDNet there giving you answers in real time with no scripts, I'm always amazed at how efficient they are, even after being with IDNet for almost 5 months ;D ;D
Is it only five months, Gary. It seems longer. I confess I don't easily remember 'pre-IDNet' these days.
Quote from: Rik on Mar 06, 2008, 11:22:02
Is it only five months, Gary. It seems longer. I confess I don't easily remember 'pre-IDNet' these days.
I joined in October last year Rik, seems longer to me as well, time flies when you dont have to moan 24/7 about bad connections and email grief and everyone in India being called Nigel telling you, its because you have dialup sir when you had Orange BB, which was rather like dialup I suppose >:D
In that case, Gary, it's almost six months. :)
Quote from: Rik on Mar 06, 2008, 11:28:25
In that case, Gary, it's almost six months. :)
Time does fly Rik ;D
It does in here. :)
Quote from: Rik on Mar 06, 2008, 11:31:10
It does in here. :)
Just checked, I registered in September :o :o Its getting longer by the minute, Oo er missus ;D
So's my face, Gary, but the events are unrelated. :)
Quote from: Rik on Mar 06, 2008, 11:47:47
So's my face, Gary, but the events are unrelated. :)
are you sure :fingers: ;)
Yes. :)
i had the same, session went down at 12.10 am so i went to bed back on now .
So if we didn't get the BT work done as promised, does that mean that we still have it to come "sometime"?
Not necessarily, Noreen. Your exchange may have been done last year, or it may not affect your particular VP or even DSLAM. As BT have been coy about what it is they are doing, exactly, we just don't know. Of course, they still have a couple of weeks to get to you too. :)
Our exchange is being put onto the 21CN network in Q3 this year which could explain the activity as well, I guess there is alot of work to be done :)
A huge amount, Gary. Let's hope we benefit. :)
Quote from: Rik on Mar 06, 2008, 19:21:07
A huge amount, Gary. Let's hope we benefit. :)
Indeed, as Miriam said unless its having a really adverse effect on you BT would not do a lot anyway, and in this case probably can't, lets just hope it keeps us vaguely up with the rest of the world, now if they only took notice of the Japanese....
Sat, 2008-03-08 01:22:54 - Initialize LCP.
Sat, 2008-03-08 01:22:54 - LCP is allowed to come up.
Sat, 2008-03-08 01:23:03 - CHAP authentication
Yet again Saturday night, I know its only for a brief time but its starting to annoy me now :rant2:
No loss of sync being reported, Gary?
No Rik, I was at the computer at the time I notice if the lights flash on it, as its so quick since I was just defraging I would not have noticed the issue on line but since the new router dsl light goes out when you lose sync you notice its really obvious :(
To be honest Rik, its the least of my problems at the moment so I'm not that concerned
Might be worth dropping support an email, Gary, they would be able to tell you what they are seeing.
Quote from: Rik on Mar 08, 2008, 11:46:45
Might be worth dropping support an email, Gary, they would be able to tell you what they are seeing.
Tried that the other day, they were seeing a healthy line ??? if BT are doing work and its just small amounts they wont list it and IDNet wont see it :(
IDNet should see any disconnections, however short. Maybe BT are doing something weird that stops IDNet seeing the drop, but leaves you with one. :(