Incredibly slow internet tonight

[talos]

Was that a router re-syc or something else, Bob?

Well from the router log.........ADSL down then 30sec later ADSL up   looked like a re-boot but I dont understand these things

[talos]

That's all very well but what about your internet connection? 

[Rik]

Well from the router log.........ADSL down then 30sec later ADSL up   looked like a re-boot but I dont understand these things

It sounds like a resync caused by a burst of noise, Bob.

[talos]

Must have been me falling over the chair then?

[Rik]

That would do it.

[zappaDPJ]

Obviously someone put another shilling in the meter. The www lives again today.

[Rik]

It's giving you a final burst before your op, Zap.

[zappaDPJ]

It's probably a good thing I'll be off the net for a few days, my usage this month is predicted to scare the pants off my bank manager. I'm still trying to plug the leak!

[Ray]

 

[Rik]

It's probably a good thing I'll be off the net for a few days, my usage this month is predicted to scare the pants off my bank manager. I'm still trying to plug the leak!

No clues from the router, Zap?

[zappaDPJ]

It appears that there's been a massive amount of activity (20GB at least) routing through the Telia network. I play World of Warcraft in the evenings and the game servers are located on that network. The game updater has been slowly downloading patch data over the last week but that should account for no more than 1GB up and down. Blizzard, the game creators, use a p2p network to handle updates and I'm wondering if something has gone wrong with it. I can't see any other explanation for it. I do have wireless enabled but it's using the maximum length, randomly generated key, and I think all the other settings such as they are, are locked up tight.

[Dangerjunkie]

Hi,

I'd recommend installing Wireshark on all your machines then stopping all your programs and running it. That way you can see where each box is talking to and hopefully pick up activity from any stealth infections they may have acquired.

Cheers,
Paul.

[Gary]

Mine dropped this morn about 8, but came straight back up again

I don't think I needed to know that, but you can get these blue pills I hear...... 

[talos]

I don't think I needed to know that, but you can get these blue pills I hear...... 

I feel sure you would know more about that than me

[zappaDPJ]

Hi,

I'd recommend installing Wireshark on all your machines then stopping all your programs and running it. That way you can see where each box is talking to and hopefully pick up activity from any stealth infections they may have acquired.

Cheers,
Paul.

Thanks, that sounds like a good idea, I might well give that a try 

[Gary]

I feel sure you would know more about that than me

I think you would be better off asking my wife 

[dujas]

The preload for WoW's 3.3.3 patch is only 129MB and like any P2P program left to seed, it would mainly be using your upstream connection.

[sobranie]

So, what was the problem re. slow internet?  Anyone??

[Rik]

The LINX network failed, Rick. While IDNet has a couple of backup peerings, some sites were still advertising their presence across LINX, hence the treacle speed. Google was one of those. Ideally, it would also appear on LONAP, but it refuses to pay the £2,000 pa costs which everyone else pays for a presence there.

[talos]

I think you would be better off asking my wife  

Well I assumed you would be there too, even if only to take notes

[sobranie]

The LINX network failed, Rick. While IDNet has a couple of backup peerings, some sites were still advertising their presence across LINX, hence the treacle speed. Google was one of those. Ideally, it would also appear on LONAP, but it refuses to pay the £2,000 pa costs which everyone else pays for a presence there.

Thanks Rik.
Memo to oneself [Read all postings before asking questions] 

[Technical Ben]

Is there perhaps some automated system that IDNet can use on their status page? So if BT break something it just says "almost seamless service status" but "somethings slightly off" and "well be onto it soon enough".
I know IDNet could not do much about it, and their backup did kick in. But having a note on the status page is nice. Is it a DNS problem? I was not on much last night, it worked for me on Open DNS.

[Steve]

It depended a lot on where you going,

[Dopamine]

That's funny, Dopamine, I thought you'd stopped posting here because you'd left IDNet, like you said you were going to, several times.

Lol. That just proves my point. Say anything remotely critical of IDNet and some smarta*se member of the IDNet fan-club gets his feelings hurt and feels the need to make a pointless post in an effort to protect their cosy little empire from dissenting voices. Ho ho ho.

It's an ISP for goodness sake, not a religion or substitute life. Do you feel such ludicrous love and belonging to your water supplier?


I'll also take the opportunity to correct your misrepresentation of what I said in the past, which was that I was considering leaving if things didn't improve. They didn't improve, I requested and received my MAC, I arranged to move on, but then received an unsolicited phone call from a member of staff at IDNet asking me to reconsider and giving me a very detailed explanation of the moves afoot to improve matters, a time scale for improvements and so on. I felt that the effort made to contact me deserved at least a month's grace, so cancelled my migration. Sure enough, the problems - which, as you'll remember, were initially blamed, erroneously, by IDNet on everyone else but themselves - went away, so I had no need to move.

Must dash. I need to write a love letter to my electricity company. I've not had a power cut in years.

[Maiku]

Anyone else having some problems tonight?  For the last 20 minutes I cant get to Norway... 

root@miyuki:~# traceroute irc.rizon.no
traceroute to irc.rizon.no (85.196.81.211), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1  telehouse-gw2-lo1.idnet.net (212.69.63.51)  34.028 ms  34.228 ms  82.655 ms
2  telehouse-gw3-g0-1-400.idnet.net (212.69.63.243)  207.176 ms  206.825 ms  206.220 ms
3  * * *
4  * * *
5  * * *
6  * * *
7  * * *

I noticed on www.internettrafficreport.com the kt1-3ja.bdr.ex.net in london is a low 37, no idea if related.