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Go outside and enjoy the sun or something...

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This veryy usfull thank.

Maso

Just in from work, waiting for the missus to get back from the shops with milk so she can make me a cuppa.

Pissing down outside. There's a surprise.

It's still around 20 degrees here and sunny allthough rain severe rain is forcast.

Mason

HTH.

Very sunny here, 206 suggests is 21c.

Just check the real time monitoring and apparently there 3 lightening strikes per minute right now...

Thats three deceased modems per minute in the uk right now ;o)

looks like it's headed "oop north" to us too :o(

I was enjoying this fair spell.

Mason

20 dead on here.

Mason

No real need. I only use OE at work, opera at home performs fine. I don't tend to post on here from home.

Mason

Does that mean its coming here (N.Yorks) ? Cos lightening plays hell with my router...

According to the Met Office it's heading in our (yorkshire) unfortunately.

What make/model router is it?

Mason

I think its more the problem that the power goes on and off a lot here when we have lightening. Then the router restarts itself, and i lose valuable connectivity time :)

Well touch wood, router's fine here, which is surprising, 'cos either the ntl connection, or the router (Belkin) have been monumentally s**te recently. They've been behaving recently. And over in Royal Berkshire, it's absolutely pissing it down, with the odd smattering of thunder and lightning for good measure.

Peter

In the village, the slightest sniff of lightening sends the TV and the electric AWOL usually :)

UPS - YKIMS.

cheers, clive

Same combination & problem here, had to reregister the connection (or whatever it's called) with NTL to cure it. Works great now though.

When you say reregister, do you mean, just re-setup the cable modem on the computer it was set up on, or actually phone up NTL and get some sense out of them?

I unplugged the cable modem from my Dad's PC that it was set up on, including unplugging the router etc., then reinstalled the cable modem, then installed the router software as if the router was new, only plugging things in when it said to, and since then it's been a lot better, but still hasn't been perfect. Now and again, a reboot on my PC (Pentium 3 with 384MB RAM running XP SP2, with a wireless PCI card) has restored the connection when nothing else i.e. repairing connection, would.

Touch wood, it's been reasonably reliable so far.......

Peter

Well, I tried the refresh thing, i.e. turning off the STB and the computer then restarting the STB and then the computer only when the two solid lights appeared on the front of the STB. No joy. Turns out that NTL computer brain had decided that it needed to reregister at the head end (what the guy who eventually sorted it told me, apparently it's to register the MAC address of the computer (the router had cloned the computers MAC address) but it hadn't changed recently, he didn't know why it requested it). When it was playing up, it turns out that the computer/router had been assigned an IP address in the 10. range (I think it was 10. anyway, certainly was refered to as the administration and registering range by the fella) and this is why my internet service had disappeared.

Anyway, to cut a long story slightly less long, take the router out of the link if poss, ipconfig to find out if it is on this admin IP address (probably can do this on the belkin router admin page -

192.168.2.1 I think it is), if it is, go to start.ntl and put in your PID code & password, refresh the cable box and restart the comp, should work OK then. If the router's MAC address is cloned to that of the computer, then it should work no problem why reconnected.

HOWEVER: as glorious as NTL are, the nice Welsh chap did say that my STB had a crappy connection (lots of dropped packets, didn't affect the TV picture though), which mysteriously cured itself when I phoned them up.

Runs well now, my comp is an Athlon 64 running Windows 2000. The belkin router is a wireless one aswell, but the computer is wired in to it. Don't think this makes any difference though. I don't use any of that proprietary software NTL supplied with the service (broadstep or something?).

I hope you don't hate me after reading all that!

Cheers.

Well, a lot of it's irrelevant until it breaks, so I'll save that lot for a rainy day, and hope I won't need to refer to it!

Cheers,

Peter