[Ubermik]

"Which wouldnt work because the gateway is on a totally different subnet, change the gateway to"

So if you DONT have a gateway on a different network obviously it ISNT the fix is it?


Admittedly the order could have been better BUT, unless someone stopped reading after a line or two it obviously isnt a networking snake oil cure for all router ills, its one for situations where the IP and gateway have different second bytes and third bytes which is affecting quite a lot of people at the mo hence why I thought it worth joining this site and posting the workaround as telewest will just direct people to a £1 a minute line the moment you mention a router who yesterday didnt have a fix or workaround either, although they might have now as I let them know how to resolve it yesterday after I sussed it


Basically tho,

1. I didnt HAVE to take the time and effort to join the site
2. I didnt HAVE to bother to let anyone else know this will resolve the connection problems if they are being given invalid IP information
3. I obviously arent getting paid for doing it so I really dont have the inclination to write a dummies guide for this so if someone thinks it is the same problem they have then thats their perogative to exploire whether it is or not

and

4. If someone cant glean enough from what I did write to know if its what their problem is or not then I really dont have several lifetimes of free time to devote to puppy walking them through it


I am guessing your some form of admin or host on here, thing is tho seeing as the purpose of the site and specifically this board is to help people "resolve" issues then nit picking contributions is just a tad counter productive really wouldnt you say?

Although it might explain why it seems such a slow moving forum compared to other sites of the same ilk I guess


Anyway, I concede it wasnt written to the same standard of clarity as a beginners guide to networking designated to be commercially sold

BUT

It DOES give a solution to a common recent problem that neither telewest, NTL, the £1 per minute tech help line OR belkin, Linksys or Netgear tech support are offering as of yesterday which is surely worth a bit less antagonism IF it helps some of your users resolve a problem they wont get a solution from anywhere else for until NTL/Telewest fix their faulty scope assignments

---------- Post added at 23:39 ---------- Previous post was at 23:37 ----------

I added the 0 so the bytes would near as damn it line up making it easier for people to see which ones didnt match but should do

Most compliant network devices I have ever used or seen DO accept the 0 instead of a space as its an accepted form of notation anyway and isnt even removed by many devices anyway despite being irrelevant

So picky? Yeah, fair description