You can punch your details in here (http://www.samknows.com/broadband/checker2.php) to find out if your exchange is LLU enabled. Post your results on here and the helpful folk will be around in no time

i'm having the exact same pipex issue over here in southampton - at the moment i suspect one of two things:

either problem at the LLU exchange, or a DNS related issue. i would add the the southampton exchange is Pipex LLU enabledd.

Thx.

We it certainly says Pipex LLU is available for my location.

We are on the same exchange then, I think. At least that proves it is not my router.

It is suspicious that the exchange(s) are Pipex LLU, but doesn't prove that is the problem.

You might both find that there are threads in the Pipex forum on this site that give a tracert to try. Certain items in the tracert show whether you are going through the Tiscali/Pipex LLU system or still on the BT IPStream/Datastream system.

Edited by RobertoS (Sun 24-Aug-08 17:21:36)

I get no mention of Tiscali.

Two entries ending .gs1.dsl.pipex.net, though.

I've no idea what the tracert target should be or what the giveaway is. That is also given in most of the relevant posts.

OK. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, though.

Being LLU'ed is the most likely explanation, subject to confirmation by the tracerts.

The only known solution is a MAC. Even that is fraught with dangers of loss of service, or if you were still on IPStream/Datastream then an accompanying ADSL Cease order on the line.