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6hrs later and still not resolved

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I am also from Basingstoke, and am having the same problems

Spoke to some forgeign guy in some foreign country no doubt, and he says the problem is known, and has been escalated.

He said, wait a few hours.... Damn, and I really wanted a game of Call of Duty 2 aswell!!!!!

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oO i help run a gaming clan we have a cod2 section although i dont have the game myself :) no idea what they are upto though as i cant get on irc !

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hey , im new here too , saw this thread decided to sign up and say:
im also from basingstoke i phoned ntl up , and wow what do you expect i spoke to some guy on the otherside of the planet , anyways , he told me i gotta wait till tomorrow =/
i also kinda wanted to play FFXI tonight too but that aint gonna happen :bigcry:

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i called up - expected the welsh chaps as normal no such luck tried to make them understand my postcode and talked through some issues yes i had restarted my modem yes i had turned it off for an hour or so just to make sure i know im not alone got my brother and3 mates on ntl all reporting same fault and they live in same town.

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Must be something they've screwed up, im still downloading a 1000+k/sec.

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Did some testing and it seems they either blocked a massive IP range or a port somewhere. Heres a quick guide on how to gain your access back VIA proxy servers for the duration of the downtime

Load IE/Mozzila or what ever you use

Go into tools/options

Find you connections tab

In IE goto LAN setting / Mozzila users will find the proxy server at the mid point of the window (manual proxy server)

Enable proxy server usage (check use for all ports in mozilla)

Use the address : 203.212.223.143 port : 80

This should get you back online and functional for the duration of this cock up

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downloading works - web browsing works.

msn p2p software webcame software ftp software team speak online games etc etc will not with our without a different proxy..im online its how i can post here ;)

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we are all online, no problem at all browsing its everything else :(

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called up again nothing they could do - called again staright after "known fault" anyway im off to sleep hope it works by morning or i may have to cut the grass :(
nn

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just hit 23:30 and guess what ? still cant connect, its really starting to get on my nerves:mad: ah well im just gonna grab another beer and watch a movie, hoping it will be back up in like 2hrs or so , doubt it tho :sleep:

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What I posted will allow you to use log-in services, such as MSN, AIM, e-bay, ebuyer etc.

For MSN and the like just add the same proxy server as above to the list in options.

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woop! back up, signed into msn and yahoo succsefully without changing nothing :) im a happy chappy now

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Guess what it works now, after 10 mins waiting for Broadband tech support to answer, then when its my turn , getting cut off.
Thats what really ****es me off
And I guess we will never find out what the problem was ?

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all fine again now and yes i wonder if we find out what was wrong ... at least i have no whining kids now \o/