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Offline GROWLER

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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #15 on: June 05, 2010, 06:50:09 AM »
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Quote from: GROWLER on June 04, 2010, 08:55:07 PM
2 'puters on all evening, and this bloody petulant moody electrical crock of crap thing hasn't crashed froze, or refused to load a page once.

Was'at all about then ey, what, exactly like? surrender:


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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #16 on: June 05, 2010, 06:53:48 AM »
Normal service has been resumed  razz:
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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #17 on: June 05, 2010, 07:03:30 AM »
Quote from: Nick on June 05, 2010, 06:53:48 AM
Normal service has been resumed  razz:


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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #18 on: June 05, 2010, 07:04:31 AM »
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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #19 on: June 05, 2010, 08:56:52 AM »
Quote from: GROWLER on June 04, 2010, 08:55:07 PM
2 'puters on all evening, and this bloody petulant moody electrical crock of crap thing hasn't crashed froze, or refused to load a page once.

Was'at all about then ey, what, exactly like? surrender:


It probably means that all your neighbours have gone out and so the telephone exchange isn't overloaded with people on the internet.  whistle:
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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #20 on: June 05, 2010, 09:21:21 AM »
I've had to reboot my modem/router several times in the past couple of days.  rubschin: Last time that happened it turned out to be the ISP (Orange) fiddling around with the service.
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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #21 on: June 05, 2010, 07:35:26 PM »
Never trust the French with anything technical. noooo:
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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #22 on: June 05, 2010, 07:54:21 PM »
They seem to have stopped fiddling around now.
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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #23 on: June 06, 2010, 10:37:23 AM »
Froggy jokes apart I switched away from Orange for both broadband and mobile 'phones because they were so unreliable and never ever had any answer other than "It is your local exchange". One operative told me that the slowness of my connection was due entirely to the distance between my property and the exchange ..... 25 yards .... I can not only see it but could break its windows with a stone thrown from my front doorstep. ::)
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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #24 on: June 07, 2010, 05:39:57 AM »
Playing up again last night, couldn't keep a connection for more than a few minutes at a time. I tried calling Orange but they were "experiencing unusually high volumes of callers" and I wasn't prepared to hang on. Allegedly they are a 24hour service but this morning the service says it opens at 7am.

Working OK at the moment after a re-power (not a reset of course)
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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #25 on: June 07, 2010, 09:07:06 AM »
Had a nice little chat with a girl at Orange, not french alas but a touch of the sub-continent instead. Anyway I told her I'd checked everything at my end and I felt sure the problem was with connectivity on the line. They're going to check and call me back later. I bet they blame BT. 
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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #26 on: June 08, 2010, 06:41:25 PM »
Well I'm sick to the back teeth with this wireless thing.
It DOES NOT like 3 puters being switched on at once. Not even that good with just this one on tbh, but bearable.

I've had to log off and fire up again about 10 times in the last hour due to loading problems, freezing, and crashing. crash:

It IS actually making me 'ratty', hard to believe I know, but true. ::)
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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #27 on: June 08, 2010, 06:56:31 PM »
Is your PC wireless too or are you, like me, connected via an ethernet cable to the router thus leaving others with their laptops the wireless bit and its problems? That way I don't get the outages that they suffer.
ALSO it is a fact that the service does get bloody awful in the earlier part of the evenings when all the kids come home, have tea and log on throughout the village. Even my direct connection slows down. If yours is anything like mine as soon as Dr Who comes on matters improve and if there is nowt on the telly then it is slow going until after ten when it all picks up again.
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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #28 on: June 08, 2010, 07:04:14 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on June 08, 2010, 06:56:31 PM
Is your PC wireless too or are you, like me, connected via an ethernet cable to the router thus leaving others with their laptops the wireless bit and its problems? That way I don't get the outages that they suffer.
ALSO it is a fact that the service does get bloody awful in the earlier part of the evenings when all the kids come home, have tea and log on throughout the village. Even my direct connection slows down. If yours is anything like mine as soon as Dr Who comes on matters improve and if there is nowt on the telly then it is slow going until after ten when it all picks up again.

I'm all connected in the 'normal' way. They're all remote.
I've neer known it as bad as it is now though.

Strange how I can get on here at present, but not the Koptalk site that I frequently visit.

Same goes for some other sites. Some load great, others don't load at all for a while...unless I log off and fire up again, and then I noramlly get a small window of 5 minutes to get in there before the freezing and non loading starts again. Banghead
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Re: Pipes wires and valves 'n stuff all suffering?
« Reply #29 on: June 08, 2010, 07:48:10 PM »
Who's you ISP?  Orange were giving me grief over the weekend.

Also test how your connection is behaving here:

http://www.speedtest.net/
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