odd broadband behaviour
you'd expect it to either work or not..
mine has been chucking a "hissy" from 4-10pm and it's a pain as when you like buying off ebay , them are normally the peak / best times.
have 2 different routers..1 seems to work all the time, where the other just seems to cut out at them specific time (an older one)
you'd again assume the router would either work or not, dunno if anyone else as ever have this situation.. rather odd one.. had the engineer out etc.. and it's giving errors etc.
oh well another engineer tomorrow turns up. the pain being that you can only have virgin or a BT line, all the others have to use BT lines.
I just find it bizarre, dunno if anyone else has had such problems
mine has been chucking a "hissy" from 4-10pm and it's a pain as when you like buying off ebay , them are normally the peak / best times.
have 2 different routers..1 seems to work all the time, where the other just seems to cut out at them specific time (an older one)
you'd again assume the router would either work or not, dunno if anyone else as ever have this situation.. rather odd one.. had the engineer out etc.. and it's giving errors etc.
oh well another engineer tomorrow turns up. the pain being that you can only have virgin or a BT line, all the others have to use BT lines.
I just find it bizarre, dunno if anyone else has had such problems
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Good luck.
PS. If you have two routers, and one "works all the time" and the other doesn't, then I would be inclined to suspect that the dodgy router is...err... dodgy. Really, I don't know how I do it... special powers of some sort, I guess.
Hope that helps?
I hope it was just the ISP doing maintanance work.
Edit: I even had connection problems when posting this one!
That's because wifi is useless and if there are 12 networks running in range of each other then it's likely at least 3 others will be interfering with your signal.
Nah, they're too busy hacking into Roger Jowett's PC and setting fire to his house.
It's really a case of you get what you pay for I think. Bought one router for $30, worked fine for a little while but I had to reset it every time I needed to access the webserver/settings as it 'lost' the admin password and the default one didn't work.
2nd one worked OK but had a lousy range
3rd one I paid premium for and it's been working great ever since. The first 2 btw were cheap but still brand name, my new one is an Asus and was about $70.
not at all, thankfully you don't run the company if that's your level of "professionalism" ;) . I know this due to emailing all the directors and your name isn't on that list.. thanks for your comments, I guess it says far more about your level of helpfulness than anything.
hint : their diagnostic stuff at the exchange showed it, and it was confirmed when the engineer tested the connection from here. whats to tell them, light goes on / off.. flashes orange instead of green.hehe
seems it's a specific router that doesn't like whatever they did to the line. If it was the router then it'd chuck a hissy all the time. it's the signal to noise ratio I'm taking a guess at. well my bug report as such wasn't needed due to them seeing on their side the sync was dropping., when that does it re-profiles the connection to a different setting / rate.
most ISP's have to use BT's existing wiring, so it's a case of them calling out BT to deal with it (yep an engineer was here) and their equipment showed the errors were building before it got to the router.
it's a wired connection ,
zero you might find http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/ is of help to you , to change your channel that you use etc.
beanz, nah it's a decent enough netgear routers (2 of em + the one they gave me), oldish now but still. the mk1 / mk2 doesn't work at peak times (I've just been testing other older one).. although the new router the ISP gave me is better in some respects, and wifi wise not as good a signal.