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mmm
09-03-2007, 20:55
All was working fine last night, but this morning have no cable light, likewise neighbours up the road, connected to very different green box. This has happened at least every 6 months for the past 5 years.

Called this morning after 20 mins on hold, go throuugh to overseas call center where line was so bad I couldn't understand a word and she couldn't get all 8 digits of the account No so I gave up and called again, but gave up after 30 mins on hold.

This evening got through to someone called Lee? who was totally useless (and that is being polite) and could only waste both our times by trying to fault find on my PC. When will exNTL start teaching their staff that

NO CABLE LIGHT ON A TERAYON TJ210 MEANS NETWORK FAULT.

I also know what the lights do when signal is marginal, and when the account is blocked due to admin problem, the cable light is OFF and stays OFF (apart from brief test when power-cycled).

I just wanted to report the network fault!

I have had the same fault before and when tech support was in Wales they understood words like "ping" and "traceroute" and had the tools to diagnose their own network.

Ended up with me refusing to accept an engineer booking sometime in the distance (they take one look and say its a network fault and its not their department, been there done that ...).

Are there any good guys out there that can fix their own network?

The last working IP address was [82.24.173.183] and the fault is on or connected to the ubr below, and probably occurred when something was rebooted after the maintenance window overnight.


9 51 ms 49 ms 49 ms linx-gw1.router.ntli.net [195.66.224.22]
10 59 ms 54 ms 53 ms nth-bb-b-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.1]
11 64 ms 64 ms 65 ms lee-bb-a-so-010-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.102]

12 64 ms 63 ms * man-bb-b-so-200-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.175.142]

13 66 ms 65 ms 65 ms bir-bb-a-so-000-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.133]

14 65 ms 63 ms 66 ms oxfd-t2core-a-pos31.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.10]

15 67 ms 67 ms 66 ms oxfd-t2cam1-a-ge-wan31.inet.ntl.com [195.182.174
2]
16 65 ms 65 ms * oxfd-oxfd-ubr-4-ge01.inet.ntl.com [213.106.246.1
]
17 * * * Request timed out.

virginmedia
10-03-2007, 12:27
Ok so you had a bad tech it happens it defo should not but it does.

Them modems are dead old now why dont you phone 151 say its not working (not getting your full speed)

If it is a modem problem the tech can sort it if it is a network problem the tech can get that sorted for you too by calling it in.

John

mmm
10-03-2007, 15:36
The modem magically fixed itself at 2pm (down for 1.5 days only) and I have a new IP address in a new range, was on cpc2- now on cpc3-, which I guess means a network upgrade and repartition has taken place, and the network configuration now fixed.

---------- Post added at 15:36 ---------- Previous post was at 15:34 ----------

Ok so you had a bad tech it happens it defo should not but it does.

Them modems are dead old now why dont you phone 151 say its not working (not getting your full speed)

If it is a modem problem the tech can sort it if it is a network problem the tech can get that sorted for you too by calling it in.

John

If only it was that easy!