Today

spinifex said:

Just got up, had a coffee and watched a bit of news.

Something was mentioned about an "Ïnternet free day". (what the??)

So went on the net to look around.

I was unaware of this internet free day ....

But it's OK now ....


I googled it


"Internet free day" - Google Search

Just ate a roast courtesy of my brother.. Now watching the Aussies chase 80 off 94 balls. Excellent Sunday night xx

Been fighting with connection problems, modem and router a couple of hours now.

After sleeping long and a nice brunch I put the TV on, wanted to see Alpine Skiing World Cup, men's giant slalom. No signal. We have a 100 / 20 MB VDSL line where half of the capacity is dedicated to the TV (IPTV) which normally works fine, allowing us to record 3 channels and watch fourth in FullHD.

So next step was to turn some computers on. Incredible slow connection! Speedtest gave PING 1154 ms, download 0.5 Mb/s, upload 0.2 Mb/s. Reminded me of those "good" old dial-up days with a 56k line. Seven Forums took ages to load.

A call to ISP tech service resulted nothing. Everything should be OK.

Two hours resetting modem and router, nothing works. Flushed DNS, renewed ipconfig, rebooted computers and suddenly everything works. Speedtest PING 28 ms, dl 42 Mb/s and ul 9.6 Mb/s, IPTV receiver works as it should.

The lesson: to really know computers, modems and routers you need to have a diploma in parapsychology. I don't, so I really don't understand. :)

Kari

Kari said:

Been fighting with connection problems, modem and router a couple of hours now.

After sleeping long and a nice brunch I put the TV on, wanted to see Alpine Skiing World Cup, men's giant slalom. No signal. We have a 100 / 20 MB VDSL line where half of the capacity is dedicated to the TV (IPTV) which normally works fine, allowing us to record 3 channels and watch fourth in FullHD.

So next step was to turn some computers on. Incredible slow connection! Speedtest gave PING 1154 ms, download 0.5 Mb/s, upload 0.2 Mb/s. Reminded me of those "good" old dial-up days with a 56k line. Seven Forums took ages to load.

A call to ISP tech service resulted nothing. Everything should be OK.

Two hours resetting modem and router, nothing works. Flushed DNS, renewed ipconfig, rebooted computers and suddenly everything works. Speedtest PING 28 ms, dl 42 Mb/s and ul 9.6 Mb/s, IPTV receiver works as it should.

The lesson: to really know computers, modems and routers you need to have a diploma in parapsychology. I don't, so I really don't understand. :)

Kari

That's like a lot of work.

spinifex said:

Just got up, had a coffee and watched a bit of news.

Something was mentioned about an "Ïnternet free day". (what the??)

So went on the net to look around.

You mean they want me to go outside.

I spent yesterday battling with my bleeping Belkin wireless adapter.....over a two hour period, repeated disconnects, resets of said adapter, re-installing of its drivers (at least 10 times) them magically it worked the rest of the night. Made my reliability index look pretty bleeping awful

So far, already a few disconnects today, but I am trying to remain positive.

Bare Foot Kid said:

spinifex said:

Just got up, had a coffee and watched a bit of news.

Something was mentioned about an "Ïnternet free day". (what the??)

So went on the net to look around.

You mean they want me to go outside.

When i realised it was for real, i back paged and pretended it didn't happen.

Sofar so good. The ground didn't swallow me up, haven't been hit by lightning, or anything.
NO internet????

Yeah right!!!!!!!

PC WhizzKid said:

Does anyone know if Google Chrome work in Windows XP?

Yes it does.

Bare Foot Kid said:

spinifex said:

Just got up, had a coffee and watched a bit of news.

Something was mentioned about an "Internet free day". (what the??)

So went on the net to look around.

You mean they want me to go outside.

I've just read Ted's attachment and I think we're OK - Internet free day is set for, Sunday January 29 and this year January 29 was a Friday