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Jan 31, 2014 12:25AM
Still no real broadband, just a few minutes every twelve hours or so, BT now sending me a new router/broadband hub, hopefully it will arrive today
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Fitted Hub, no broadband :-(So they're sending another engineer on Monday.
Barrow is having difficulties because of the installation of fibre-optic, apparently this is causing problems and screwing things up, but in theory it's not causing us problems. I wonder if it just has, because when they did a line test yesterday to see if they could talk to our router, they couldn't even see down the end of the line to find it, so bad was the fault situation. Yet here am I, able to post (after a fashion). I've got about four minutes before it dies
And for some reason I still get these four minutes in a morning, now that surely has to mean that it's something to do with some man-made system, because I cannot see the predawn light drying out the cabling or whatever.But yes, I've got a blog tour to organise and all sorts of things to do and it isn't getting done
On the up side I've done 23,000 words of the next book on the Tsarina sector
We've had our engineer. He stablised our broadband, but unfortunately it stabilises at 950kbps!He's picked up faults on the line so he's setting about dealing with these which might get the speed back up to 1500 if I'm lucky
Lets hope. Its not the same without you...
Have them pesky sheep been chewing the cables?
Edit: Or the cows?
David that's a cow moo...
But it has a collar.
Are they the things that milk comes from?
Rosemary (the Fourth Plinth) wrote: "David that's a cow moo..."Anyway, never mind that, shouldn't you be reading something? ;~)
No, that's cartons, silly.
David wrote: "Are they the things that milk comes from?"Mammals.
He 'stablised' our line to so that our router would sychronise with the exchangeHe had to stablise it at 950kb!
And it still keeps crashing out after a few minutes.
The engineer is now off chasing faults, hopefully he can then sort things
There's pigeons overtake it :-(And it keeps stopping for a smoke break and everything stops :-(
Grrrrrrrr.Get sorted! I need my Jim fix!
Problem remains the same. I phoned BT to see where our engineer has got to and he's spent the day working on the other end of our line, trying to get that bit sorted. I think he's right, because I don't think we've just got ordinary line faults, we're used to them, they don't give us this problem
Line speed, (when we have it) currently 864! Still breaking up. Anyway today I'm going to be trying to get stuff to all those people who've said they'll host my blog tour. Organising a blog tour without broadband is tricky, but the clock is ticking, the book is out on the 1st of March
Looked on thinking there was a message from Jim, and it's Patti missing Jim.
Message from Jim, Got connection sorted out, now the problem seems to be that my computer is crashing the broadband. We can have the hub working with late father in laws lap top, works fine for hours. Plug desk top into it, broadband crashes within minutes
Dammit Jim!Get a new laptop!
I'm trying to put Outlook Express on the laptop, not sure where to get it from
Hi PeopleRight
Interesting day.
Cleaned computer (opened it up, you can do this with a desk top, and applied vacuum cleaner very carefully.)
This was in case something was dirty and overheating.
No effect
Kept thinking.
Suddenly remembered that nearly a fortnight ago BT engineer had given us a conventional domestic hub overnight and that hadn't crashed.
Went to borrow elderly BT hub from mate (It's a BT Vogager 2091) with the wireless bit broken)
I've taken out the bran new BT Business Hub and put this in.
We've had broadband for over an hour, it seems stable, it seems to be working. Previously we've never really had it for over fifteen minutes
Not only that but with the old hub I had to switch the computer off and leave it a while before the hub would sync up. This one, the computer was running and I just took the wires out of one and put them in the other
So I'm now wondering if it is a router problem after all. Apparently the BT home hub two has had a lot of problems, I'm wondering if the business hub has.
Just curious. I assume you're cabling your desktop to the hub. Does the desktop have a wifi card, too? If it's hardwired but searching for a wifi connection, too, this might confuse a wireless router. It just seemed something to ask since you said the hub that worked didn't have working wireless.
My desktop is five years old, back then when you got a 'proper' computer they asked if you wanted wireless and there didn't seem any point when being wired into the router is the best connection :-)So no, my desktop doesn't have wireless.
Jim wrote: "My desktop is five years old, back then when you got a 'proper' computer they asked if you wanted wireless and there didn't seem any point when being wired into the router is the best connection :-..."Oh, well, it would have been so much simpler if it had wireless and that was causing the problem. But your reality has thwarted my efforts at heroism on your behalf!
Is it appropriate here to say how much I loathe BT?
Don't worry, it comes across quite strongly :-)I must admit that with me they've not been too bad. BUT, we're a business line and talking to friends with domestic contracts, the service isn't as good
David wrote: "Oh, well, it would have been so much simpler if it had wireless and that was causing the problem. But your reality has thwarted my efforts at heroism on your behalf! ..."I did wonder whether, if it had wireless, we could just have unhooked the cable and the problems would have been over
Jim wrote: "David wrote: "Oh, well, it would have been so much simpler if it had wireless and that was causing the problem. But your reality has thwarted my efforts at heroism on your behalf! ..."I did wonde..."
That would be surprising. Generally hard-wired continues to work better than wireless. My 9-year-old Windows XP desktop isn't as fast as my wife's new iMac, but my hard-wired Internet access isn't as wonky as her wireless connect.
That is how it should be. Comparing 2 year old laptop on wireless versus 5 year old desktop with wire, there was nothing in it, and as you say, wired is less wonky
Jim wrote: "That is how it should be. Comparing 2 year old laptop on wireless versus 5 year old desktop with wire, there was nothing in it, and as you say, wired is less wonky"Just like you and me, Jim. Older is better, and hardwired best of all! ;o)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Groan."Hey I thought Jim's thread was the one place us older guys could bond without having to suffer the comments of youngsters!
Oh, do call me a youngster again, please!Jim, you're a better person than I am. When rude people walk into me, I swear at them.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Oh, do call me a youngster again, please!Jim, you're a better person than I am. When rude people walk into me, I swear at them."
Youngster!
Quite right David. The youth of today. Whatever will they teach in turn?
It's lucky for them we're not the men our fathers were! ;-)
Volunteers to chastise Patti stand still (whilst the rest of us run away)
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