Messenger, TeamSpeak etc will not connect (Tamworth / Lichfield issues ?) - Page 3

mpmc · 22-02-2005, 19:50

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Originally Posted by BizBo

Now thats a joke, one server affects just the Lichfield area....no way!

Whos joking.. I'm not...

Stu75 · 22-02-2005, 20:04

just spent hours trying to get my connection sorted, as it was only sites i had to login to and msn that would not work, glad i found this forum

planetWayne · 22-02-2005, 20:04

Peeps,
just to add my 2pth worth... Am in Tamworth (not too far from Lichfield!) and cant get a VPN connection back into the office. If I use my internal DNS server, they cant resolve requests properly at the mo either... although if I set it to 'forward' to an NTL dns server it seems ok.

I also cant get to my own web server from the outside world either...
Somthing strange is afoot me thinks.

BizBo · 22-02-2005, 20:12

The problem as I see it, and I'm no NTL expert....

The only thing that is seeing the outside world is the ntl proxies, we as customers are just bouncing around the NTL inside infrastructure, when we try to route of the network it just dies nothing more nothing less, the only thing keeping us from feeling we are totally devoid of internet access is the proxies on port80.

So for once, hooray for ntl-proxies, although if they go down, we will really be offline, even though we really are now....

22-02-2005, 20:21

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Originally Posted by BizBo

Ah I love it, well I'm moving into the Birmingham area and hopefully I will be a different network....as yet to be decided.

Don't count on it, Tamworth is linked to the Birmingham servers, so your service will be exactly the same as mine.

planetWayne · 22-02-2005, 21:02

As an update... cant get to a HTTPS site either - so - would seem that I you can get out through the proxies direct - but dont do anything 'normal' :/
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another update... I've got a VoIP phone system - which still allows me to connect VoIP (SIP) to the states - possibly cause it uses UDP packets instead of TCP?

my only conclusion...

toytown · 22-02-2005, 21:58

Yep same here,

VPN (nortel)
some FTP connections,
Ext. News Servers
Online Game Servers (BF1942, EQ2 etc)
Messenger

All inaccessible, however HTTP is working perfectly due to the proxies

scurrn · 22-02-2005, 22:11

yeah, no cs source :-(
no ftp and no email most of the time - sob

sporkguy · 22-02-2005, 22:26

whoever spelt Lichfield with a T deserves to be SHOT

22-02-2005, 22:36

Connection seems to have improved, still get a ping of about 2500MS and 2 *'s on one server while doing a tracert to www.google.co.uk. Messenger still won't sign in and TeamSpeak refuses to connect. The eOn project seems to have no problems connecting now, hopefully they fix everything by morning.
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Originally Posted by sporkguy

whoever spelt Lichfield with a T deserves to be SHOT

That would be one of the mods

BizBo · 23-02-2005, 07:46

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Originally Posted by Electrolyte

Don't count on it, Tamworth is linked to the Birmingham servers, so your service will be exactly the same as mine.

Erm no! I won't be using NTL lol
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Originally Posted by sporkguy

whoever spelt Lichfield with a T deserves to be SHOT

And anyone who lives in Lichfield should know that the name Lichfield means field of the dead, which in NTL terms is still a valid name.

I gave up at 2300hrs, anyone confirm if NTL plugged the core router back in?

BizBo