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Mar 01, 2007 21:53

Has anyone else been suferring from REALLY flakey DSL connections with iinet lately? It's been 4 months or so that my connection has been total shit, and each time i call the support line i get treated like a lepper and told my PC must somehow magically be causing my DSL pings to fails randomly, my connection to come and go constantly ( Read more... )

whinge, noise

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calais355 March 6 2007, 11:35:16 UTC

5 pin is ghey, but i'd give it a shot. if i ever make it over there..

by the time i do, you'll be back in australia and married with kids

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calais355 March 9 2007, 15:27:55 UTC

am i? or just shit? :P

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theambertrap March 2 2007, 00:29:34 UTC

I know Lewie and Brett have been having a lot of issues with iinet DSL wireless...but they/I/whatever just assumed it was a computer/wireless thing...

infernale March 2 2007, 02:00:56 UTC

If i was wireless i would assume likewise, but im using a wired modem! Im rebooting my pc/modem (shutdown, wait 10 mins, reboot) at least once every 48 hours etc.. doing all the right things.. ive got diagnostics running etc, it all points to the connection at iinet being complete poo. :(

unit_m March 2 2007, 03:41:10 UTC

its not so much the wireless bit.. bretts pc, and mine are lan'd into the router with cables, our connection just keeps dropping out, at the router. the wireless bit very rarely gets used, so its not anything to do with that. unless someones connecting to our networkl and playing silly buggers or soemthing. who knows, i have no use for wireless, so brett set that one up :P
usually its only when people use our phone, whether to call in or out. but just recently (since those few really hot days really) its been randomly dropping out every 5 min or so... some days are better than others though. i always figured its cause our phoneline is degraded and adsl2 is too fast for our cables.

maffyew March 2 2007, 04:02:24 UTC

Could be a filtering issue too. Especially if you're losing connection when incoming/outgoing calls are being recieved/made.

Filters are pretty cheap, so it's worth replacing them - or better yet, do an isolation test first and see if the connection stays up when you don't have anything but the modem plugged in - that'll tell you if it's a phone/filter issue for sure.

Otherwise, you're probably right - it could be cable degredation, which could be internal or external. :(

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maffyew March 2 2007, 04:01:03 UTC

Email me your username, and I'll take a look at it, run an SQ and see if there's anything I can suggest.

anarckist March 2 2007, 16:59:48 UTC

hehe, isn't it strange how one feels an unknown 'motivation' to protect 'The company' even though whilst at work you can find it hard to give a damn afer the first couple hours.

maffyew March 2 2007, 17:05:56 UTC

I'm actually more curious than anything else, because I like the more complex problems that I have to think about to get fixed instead of cruising along on autopilot. :)

anarckist March 2 2007, 17:02:14 UTC

95% of the time its a 'CPE' issue, cabling inside the house or someone doing construction down the road and causing massive interferance.
Dropouts suck, they're either fixed in about 10mins isolating stuff and swapping modems or about a week in monitoring and getting Te$tra to cave and go check the bloody line which usually takes 3 tries, another fortnight and 2x$99 incorrect call out fees and about 3 months of fighting with them to get that refunded cos their techs couldn't find the 100m+ of alloy 0.32 gauge replacement cable that was there instead of copper...

infernale March 6 2007, 13:59:25 UTC

I got my line tested after fighting telstra ages ago. Just because i wanted it done.. someone spooked me and i hassled them etc :). It was fine at that juncture.. but that was a good 5 years or so ago? maybe more, i forget. It was about 6 months after i got the line in.

calais355 March 6 2007, 11:31:49 UTC

i got iinet, its fine, i bet its like 14 years ago when we were at sideys and i transfered a file from your comp to mine with a 1.44 disk. you computer is full of viruses u dirty fucker :P

infernale March 6 2007, 14:02:22 UTC

wtf!? i never gave you any virus man!? are you smoking crack again?

calais355 March 9 2007, 15:29:51 UTC

nah man i dont smoke crack, just pole..

dont u remember when we were both at sideys with our comps and i needed a file off yours or some crap. transered file with 1.44. virus powa? doesnt matter only stupid cunts like me remember shit from 10 - 14 years ago like that. i am weird.