BigMouth Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 For the last week my partner's broadband connection with Wanadoo has been dropping every hour or two. Is anyone else similarly inflicted and what ISP are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muppet Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 No problems with me. I'm with wanadoo and in Lerwick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Thanks Muppet. It might just be time to get rid of the old router and get a new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 I am on AOL, and lately the connection has been as good as it has ever been, pretty solid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandhopper Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 I had horrible probs to reach any destination in SCO from the continent over the last week:only one contact with the Northern Times (Caithness/Sutherland), no contact with Orkney (Orcadian, Orkneycommunities, Orkneyjar etc.) ... no contact with shetlopedia and Shetland Times, only two contacts with Shetland News ... first time that I have reached Shetlink for 4 days now ... All reporting 404 site not found, 500 error or time out ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Yes, but it's been going on for two months at least. Dropped connections, speeds dropping off steadily late afternoon and early evening, but picks up again after 9 or 10pm, sometimes sticky to get a connection, sometimes coonnections just "die", you're connected, but nothing can be sent/received. Tiscali at the Ness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heimdal Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Yes, islandhopper, similar situation here, I can't get through to Shetlopedia either, getting 404, not hosted on this server etc. Something is broken somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pooks Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 I can't say I have noticed too many problems here. Some sites have been slow at times but nothing exceptional. What you may be experiencing is a follow-on from an attempt to bring down the internet this past week or so. The internet's root servers had a massive denial of service attack in an attempt to bring them down. They withstood the attack but it would have caused a lot of routing problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted February 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 Thanks people. I will hold off on the router then for a while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifi Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 Anyone having problems with broadband? It seems that some of us in Hillswick/possibly Northmavine can't connect. ISPs are BT & Pipex that I've heard of so far. It seems it's been off since around midday. Fifi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fjool Posted June 29, 2007 Report Share Posted June 29, 2007 I have heard reports of several people having terrible connections recently. Not sure if it's a BT issue or not. Mine has been fine, but others in different areas of Shetland have had problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouth Posted June 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 Anyone having problems with broadband? It seems that some of us in Hillswick/possibly Northmavine can't connect. ISPs are BT & Pipex that I've heard of so far. It seems it's been off since around midday. Fifi Mine was terrible on Wednesday?Thursday but seems to be back to normal. On my router there is a button that you can click in the software to disconnect. Once I hit disconnect then reconnect it is up and running again, but sometimes for no more than 30 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifi Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 Thanks. Ours is just a little USB modem from Pipex and don't have no reset buttons! As people in the area who are with various ISPs can't get on, we're thinking it might be a problem with our exchange or a problem elsewere which is affecting those on our exchange. Someone else in the area was eventually able yesterday to convince BT that we had a problem with broadband - the operative said the line was ok, there were no problems. They are going to send out an engineer on Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humptygrumpty Posted June 30, 2007 Report Share Posted June 30, 2007 Ive noticed that my bt connection has been a bit erratic lately , perhaps more so early afternoon and late at night , thought it was the computer but maybe not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifi Posted July 1, 2007 Report Share Posted July 1, 2007 It seems to have come back this afternoon. And funnily enough, it's come back with our new whizzy speed - as though someone's flicked a switch somewhere.. We had been on 2 meg and had recently upgraded to 'up to 8meg'. Being interested to see what speed we're now getting, at http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html we're now getting around 5.2meg download speed and 0.4meg upload. Does anyone have any information regarding the exchanges which are on 512k? I seem to remember Tavish having a hand in one being upgraded not that long ago? North Roe is the only exchange in Northmavine which isn't able to get 'up to 8meg' as far as I know.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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