No Net at Castle Fox. Again.
Feb. 2nd, 2010 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slowfox"Once you have elimated the impossible," quoth Holmes, "whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth!"
It sounds so simple when he says it. But when faced with my intermittent web drop-outs at Castle Fox, I'm not really sure how to apply it.
First off, I ripped out all of my internal extension wires for the phone, so that the only socket in the house is the KC provided one, over which I have no control. The reasoning behind this was that mebbe some of my wiring had come loose, and was causing interference. Result? No difference.
Next, I swapped the router (I have a spare). Again, no change; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. When it's working, I can swap back to the original router, and it'll also work. When it's not working, I can swap routers, and remain subfunctional. So tentatively I draw the conclusion that it's not the router.
I then phoned KC themselves, who assured me that they test all the lines in the exchange on a 24 hour basis, and confirmed that my phone line had no faults. Huh.
Belatedly, I realised that I'd not swapped the ADSL microfilter throughout all the above, and perhaps that was intermittently faulty? Consequently, I swapped in a new microfilter on Friday, and everything was fine until this morning... whence, again, I have no web - PC or XBox.
So. Either both routers are intermittently faulty. Or both microfilters are intermittently faulty. Or both the PC and the two XBoxes are intermittently faulty (network only). Or there's an intermittent line problem that's evading KC's detection.
None of these seem terribly likely, to be honest.
It sounds so simple when he says it. But when faced with my intermittent web drop-outs at Castle Fox, I'm not really sure how to apply it.
First off, I ripped out all of my internal extension wires for the phone, so that the only socket in the house is the KC provided one, over which I have no control. The reasoning behind this was that mebbe some of my wiring had come loose, and was causing interference. Result? No difference.
Next, I swapped the router (I have a spare). Again, no change; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. When it's working, I can swap back to the original router, and it'll also work. When it's not working, I can swap routers, and remain subfunctional. So tentatively I draw the conclusion that it's not the router.
I then phoned KC themselves, who assured me that they test all the lines in the exchange on a 24 hour basis, and confirmed that my phone line had no faults. Huh.
Belatedly, I realised that I'd not swapped the ADSL microfilter throughout all the above, and perhaps that was intermittently faulty? Consequently, I swapped in a new microfilter on Friday, and everything was fine until this morning... whence, again, I have no web - PC or XBox.
So. Either both routers are intermittently faulty. Or both microfilters are intermittently faulty. Or both the PC and the two XBoxes are intermittently faulty (network only). Or there's an intermittent line problem that's evading KC's detection.
None of these seem terribly likely, to be honest.
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Date: 2010-02-02 10:57 am (UTC)I know you said you've spoken to KC about the phone line, but have you rung technical support at Karoo? They might have some helpful tips or have heard of something similar.
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Date: 2010-02-03 08:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-03 08:52 am (UTC)(Couldn't resist, mate. You left the straight line just lying there.)
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Date: 2010-02-02 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-03 08:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-02 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-03 08:42 am (UTC)Not that well, so not really on a asking if they're having trouble kinda footing at the moment. I suspect it's localised, though, since work colleagues seem fine (KC have a monopoly on ISPs here in Hull, because we're outside the standard UK telephone network for historic reasons).