(I apologise for the spam if you've gotten this twice. I think the email I originally sent it from is not subscribed to this list). Hi all! I'm in a bit of a bind. We're experiencing very poor connectivity at the moment from Slingshot. We're lucky to be able to stay online for more than 3 minutes at a time. I've just called Slingshot support and a very bored woman who sounded like it was beneath her to even talk to me was very unhelpful. refused to run any checks on the line or check logs or anything at their end unless I tried an alternative router on the line. She basically wanted me off the phone as fast as possible - presumably so she could get back to her WoW game or Puzzle Pirates or something more important than actual customer support (I tell you - if we had someone who behaved like that to customers at Quicksilver they'd be on notice pretty bloody fast!) Anyway - does anyone have a spare adsl router that I could borrow for a day or so to do some troubleshooting and see if it is my problem or Slingshot's problem. I'm in the process of choosing another provider because we've not been hapy with the service from Slingshot for some time but I'd kinda like to work out if it's a hardware issue or a connection issue before we switch. If I had the knowledge and the skills I'd probably just bite the bullet and rewire the jackpoints in this house - the current phone wiring seems a little amateurish - but we've had no troubles with any telecommunications services up until a couple of weeks ago. I have a drum of cat 5 but no skills on how to use it - *sigh* anyways - if anyone has a spare serviceable adsl router they would be willing to loan me I would be most grateful! James. -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum "Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list..."
If I had the knowledge and the skills I'd probably just bite the bullet and rewire the jackpoints in this house - the current phone wiring seems a little amateurish - but we've had no troubles with any telecommunications services up until a couple of weeks ago. I have a drum of cat 5 but no skills on how to use it - *sigh*
anyways - if anyone has a spare serviceable adsl router they would be willing to loan me I would be most grateful!
I have a CISCO SOHO you can borrow.. it's a bit tricky to set up though, no web interface like normal routers. I'll preconfigure it if you like.
On 30/11/2007, James Pluck <papabearnz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm in a bit of a bind. We're experiencing very poor connectivity at the moment from Slingshot. We're lucky to be able to stay online for more than 3 minutes at a time.
I've had very bad problems earlier this week and they seem to have gone away again. I'm on the same exchange as you, but with a different ISP (Xnet). Xnet reported that work is being done on the Frankton exchange. I suspect that is where the problem lies. Michael
On 30/11/2007, James Pluck <papabearnz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm in a bit of a bind. We're experiencing very poor connectivity at the moment from Slingshot. We're lucky to be able to stay online for more than 3 minutes at a time.
I've had very bad problems earlier this week and they seem to have gone away again. I'm on the same exchange as you, but with a different ISP (Xnet). Xnet reported that work is being done on the Frankton exchange. I suspect that is where the problem lies.
I think a lot of people will be experiencing outages as they seem to be in the process of upgrading exchanges.. all of a sudden i can connect at adsl2+ at over 2 megabit.. and my downloads went from 100k average to over 7 megabit average the other night.. so even if you need to go buy a new modem think of it as an investment.. I do have a dlink dsl302g (free xtra modem) that i use for testing at times if you get desperate, can loan it to you if needed.
On Nov 30, 2007 12:24 PM, <kyle(a)feet.net.nz> wrote:
On 30/11/2007, James Pluck <papabearnz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm in a bit of a bind. We're experiencing very poor connectivity at the moment from Slingshot. We're lucky to be able to stay online for more than 3 minutes at a time.
I've had very bad problems earlier this week and they seem to have gone away again. I'm on the same exchange as you, but with a different ISP (Xnet). Xnet reported that work is being done on the Frankton exchange. I suspect that is where the problem lies.
I think a lot of people will be experiencing outages as they seem to be in the process of upgrading exchanges.. all of a sudden i can connect at adsl2+ at over 2 megabit.. and my downloads went from 100k average to over 7 megabit average the other night..
so even if you need to go buy a new modem think of it as an investment..
I do have a dlink dsl302g (free xtra modem) that i use for testing at times if you get desperate, can loan it to you if needed.
I currently have a dynalink (rta1350?) adsl2+ router that I'm using. It's slaved to my Netgear wifi 4 port switch. This morning the connection seemed to be stable - at least it remained up for the 15 mins I was using it.
Now that my wife and I have deceided to stay in Hamilton longterm I think it will be worth getting someone in to rewire my phone ports with cat5 and replace them with UTP jacks and a reposition the router to the bottom of the linen closet to get some of the unsightly spaghetti cable clutter out of the way. I also intend to put in a splitter and get rid of the filters to improve the signal quality to the dsl directly and pave the way for installing a monitored alarm. But I'm sure that a professional rewiring of my 50+yo ex-state house will have no effect on signal quality *grin* J -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum "Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list..."
With the very welcome assistance of Bruce and Lindsay, I now have a fully functional Cisco ADSL router working in my home. My wife is happy again as she can now do an audit on our accounts before Christmas (which has been delayed for the last 3 weeks of instability. As suspected my (only 2 years old) ADSL router is past its best before date! If anyone wants a non-functional Dynalink rta1320 they are more than welcome to have it. And if anyone can recomment a reasonably priced and reliable ADSL 2+ router I would be very interested in the information. -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum "Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list..."
Can I put my hand up? I have a Dynalink RTA1320 in front of me that I sourced recently - but it has no plug-pack - I was looking at purchasing one today from Jaycar - is your one still available? Cheers, Elroy. James Pluck wrote: As suspected my
(only 2 years old) ADSL router is past its best before date! If anyone wants a non-functional Dynalink rta1320 they are more than welcome to have it.
On Dec 10, 2007 11:45 AM, elroy <elroy(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Can I put my hand up?
I have a Dynalink RTA1320 in front of me that I sourced recently - but it has no plug-pack - I was looking at purchasing one today from Jaycar - is your one still available?
Sure. email me offlist. -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum "Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list..."
On 10/12/2007, James Pluck <papabearnz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
With the very welcome assistance of Bruce and Lindsay, I now have a fully functional Cisco ADSL router working in my home. My wife is happy again as she can now do an audit on our accounts before Christmas (which has been delayed for the last 3 weeks of instability. As suspected my (only 2 years old) ADSL router is past its best before date! If anyone wants a non-functional Dynalink rta1320 they are more than welcome to have it.
Glad to hear that you're over your problems. Mine have come back with a vengeance ... I can't get a DSL connection! A few minutes ago I eliminated the router/modem (same as yours ... and it runs hot!) as the cause of the problem. Now, it's a case of working through the other possibilities, including a visit from Mr Rat. Michael
On 12/10/07, James Pluck <papabearnz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
With the very welcome assistance of Bruce and Lindsay, I now have a fully functional Cisco ADSL router working in my home. My wife is happy again as she can now do an audit on our accounts before Christmas (which has been delayed for the last 3 weeks of instability. As suspected my (only 2 years old) ADSL router is past its best before date! If anyone wants a non-functional Dynalink rta1320 they are more than welcome to have it.
And if anyone can recomment a reasonably priced and reliable ADSL 2+ router I would be very interested in the information.
I would and wouldn't recommend the D-Link range in some cases! They are meant to have good connections at medium to long distances from exchanges according to reviews. I found my connection went up about 1 Mbits/sec (replacing a DSE one) as reasonable distance from exchange. This will become less of an issue as Telecom rolls out fibre to the cabinet. On the other hand their DNS support is rubbish. I've had to hardcode Xnet's DNS on each PC as the DNS proxy is useless. After a battle with DLink they gave me the GPL source code and found it was a broken version of the DNS proxy. I couldn't be bothered fixing it though... Ian
My Linksys pap2 or whatever it is seems fairly well behaved.. Adsl2+ connect speed of about 11 megabit and can push 7.5 megabit actual throughput on it. And it even has 2 built in voip lines. -----Original Message----- From: Ian McDonald [mailto:ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz] Sent: Monday, 10 December 2007 7:52 p.m. To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [wlug] Arghhh - Help On 12/10/07, James Pluck <papabearnz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
With the very welcome assistance of Bruce and Lindsay, I now have a fully functional Cisco ADSL router working in my home. My wife is happy again as she can now do an audit on our accounts before Christmas (which has been delayed for the last 3 weeks of instability. As suspected my (only 2 years old) ADSL router is past its best before date! If anyone wants a non-functional Dynalink rta1320 they are more than welcome to have it.
And if anyone can recomment a reasonably priced and reliable ADSL 2+ router I would be very interested in the information.
I would and wouldn't recommend the D-Link range in some cases! They are meant to have good connections at medium to long distances from exchanges according to reviews. I found my connection went up about 1 Mbits/sec (replacing a DSE one) as reasonable distance from exchange. This will become less of an issue as Telecom rolls out fibre to the cabinet. On the other hand their DNS support is rubbish. I've had to hardcode Xnet's DNS on each PC as the DNS proxy is useless. After a battle with DLink they gave me the GPL source code and found it was a broken version of the DNS proxy. I couldn't be bothered fixing it though... Ian _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 18:42 +1300, Kyle Carter wrote:
My Linksys pap2 or whatever it is seems fairly well behaved.. Adsl2+ connect speed of about 11 megabit and can push 7.5 megabit actual throughput on it.
And it even has 2 built in voip lines.
I'm certainly very pleased with the Linksys range. Would you believe, for minimal configuration with a Cisco 83x, 85x, 87x, the Linksys WRT54GL would blow them away for performance - I've bench tested a WRT54GL at >35 MBps vs 15 MBps for a Cisco 871W. The Cisco 871W however does blow the WRT54GL away when it comes to things like running BGP. Argh, for me, I need one of those biscuit PCs that CRCNet uses, but has to be the one that can route 100MBps between interfaces, have no hard drive, but run IPTables, Squid, Quagga, Asterisk, and WX200D.
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