Curiously enough, my MaxDsl connection sailed on through the recent general British broadband weekends of disruptiom. Perhaps Sky are testing their much hyped Internet service, or one of their bandwidth stealing applications?

Incidentally, I would not touch Sky with an extra long bargepole..................!

I had about 15 mins of no service at all last night, it was really weird i was online got booted off, went to reconnect it did then it booted me again, it proceeded to do this about 8 or 10 times for the next 15min then it settled down after i gave up and turned my router off and came back later!

In reply to:

---

I had about 15 mins of no service at all last night .....

---

What time was this? I had a 20 minute black hole last night, lasting for ~20 mins. Rebooting router or switching off for a while did not cure this. DSL was up, but I couldn't establish PPP.

Only after leaving it a while and trying several attempts later I finally manged to connect.

it was around 19:40 to 20:00 that i was offline for, i gave up at around 10mins to eight then i switched router off and chilled for abit then i restarted the router and all was fine.

It's just happened again, although I didn't get the high pings afterwards; this time I was able to get some traceroutes. I had to tracert to an IP address and use -d because nothing would resolve:

At 7.30 this morning (1st hop is my router):

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms 212.69.63.45
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.

How it looks if it's working:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 15 ms 15 ms 14 ms 212.69.63.45
3 16 ms 15 ms 15 ms 212.69.63.9
4 16 ms 16 ms 15 ms 213.232.64.51
5 16 ms 19 ms 16 ms 213.206.128.104
6 16 ms 16 ms 15 ms 213.206.129.152
7 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 213.206.131.22
8 16 ms 18 ms 16 ms 4.68.116.98
9 16 ms 16 ms 17 ms 4.68.128.110
10 16 ms 16 ms 17 ms 4.68.117.41
11 85 ms 85 ms 85 ms 195.50.116.154
12 88 ms 89 ms 87 ms <my office IP address>

Trace complete.

I've only been with IDNet for a month, but I've found the connection to be less stable than my previous f2s one. If this carries on I'll be seriously considering moving on again.

In reply to:

---

At 7.30 this morning (1st hop is my router):

1 * * * Request timed out.

---

Sorry if I am missing something obvious, but shouldn't your first hop from pc to router always be < 1ms. Timing out between PC and router would seem to indicate a problem all of its own.
Regards
Doug

No, it just means that my router doesn't respond to pings.

Edit: I'll qualify that by explaining I don't have individual control over responses to pings from the WAN & LAN - it's on or off for both.

Edited by s7uar7 (Thu 07-Sep-06 08:19:51)

Hi s7uar7

We were working on the network this morning. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Regards
Simon

I have been with IDNet since February this year and have had consistant and stable connection. I normally only lose connection when I reboot my router or when BT have work to do. Only twice have I lost connection to IDnet for a short period when they were working on their network. Nothing but excellent experience with them.
I realise some people have problems with pingie things but I don't play games so will never have an effect on me.

It seems all the complaints are from a few people who have these ping problems, hardly any other complaints at all.

Edited by deleted (Thu 07-Sep-06 10:34:10)

How odd. Same with me, but about 1 hour earlier. My connection died at about 18:40 and was dead for at least 20 minutes. Then went out shopping. On my return, about 1.5 hours later, switched on the router again and all was fine.

Methinks it's time that the IDNet customer site needs a "planned maintenance" page.