[cofe]

first of all i just want to give a shout out to all my homies in bruge.

secondly, during the floods of sheffield^tm we had about half dozen power cuts at the crib. since then the internet has been playing up and is cutting out all the effing time. which is effing me off to say the least.

it goes through a router and typically the WAN (Whack Area Network) light starts flashing and the whole thing dies. then i have to turn it off. sometimes it works for a bit other times for a few minutes.

anyone with an ounce of techinability got any bright ideas. i called bulldog who were hopeless. could a power surge have buggered the microfilter thing or the router?

welcome any views, etc?

[Monolith]

I have a spare wireless router you can have if you want it. The firmware (I'm told) was hacked on it by my friend who works for Blue Yonder and has a phd in computing. Don't sweat the technics FOOL.

[cofe]

cheers word. mine isn't wireless - lord knows what the WAN stands for. someone should invent some kind of internet "search engine" and then i could find out.

would a wireless work or do i need other shit like wireless modems or summert? might be worth a shot. you could leave it in the zip lock bag with the PAYG mobile at john craven tor.

[Monolith]

Casting my mind back to AS Level IT, I think WAN stands for Wide Area Network. Can't tell you much more with any authority really, although I'm sure Keith will have something to say if he pipes up.

I'll drop you a pm on the tor idea.

[dobbin]

Monolithy - it does.

Yo yo yo! all geek gimp magnets in the house! THink of the WAN light as your friend. WHen its so solid your connection to the tinterweb is up and you should be fine. WHen it starts flashing means it can't connect, which could be for a variety of reasons. Its unlikely that the power blippages would have caused such a thing, but to know for sure you would need to log on to the router and see if its trying to tell you something. When it goes flashy is it on off on off equally, cos flickering is up and doing something.

What router do you have? who is your broadband provider?

His witless router would work fine by the way, you would need to configure it, but thats small fry for a man of your calibre.

[cofe]

word it's an Addon router with a Bulldog interweb steez.

the light flashes on off on off - not the 'thinking' oscillation you get when it is website connectionalizing.

[dobbin]

In my little world, flashing rather than flickering means 'I'm not happy. The line is bad, or I have lost sync. I am trying to reconnect but I am not happy'.

If it were a line problem then I would expect that it would recover by itself. Its certainly valid to replace ones microfilters, but I would expect that a problem with them would prevent any sort of connection rather than intermittent connection issues.

If it were me, I would first try a different line filter, then I would have a look on the router manufacturer webpage and see if there is a firmware upgrade available. Download and apply that and you never know, you might be in business. If that doesnt work or is beyonce you, the next step is a router swap.

[Jim]

I recon it might be your hardwear thats being a bit fried dopefield.
Johhny Brown has a router of mine at his you could borrow if you want to try that

[andy_e]

I had the same problem for ages, tinkering with the router's WAN settings until, one day, it started working. Don't ask me what I did to get ti to work, but I think it had something to do with the IP address.

[cofe]

I recon it might be your hardwear thats being a bit fried dopefield.
Johhny Brown has a router of mine at his you could borrow if you want to try that

cheers chap. although he might need it for his broadband

[dave]

word jigga try typeing the IP of the router into your browser it should show you exactly what the router is thinking, might shed some light. most of em have like an internal website you can access to chance configurations, troubleshoot et cetera.

[Jim]

I recon it might be your hardwear thats being a bit fried dopefield.
Johhny Brown has a router of mine at his you could borrow if you want to try that

cheers chap. although he might need it for his broadband

I doubt it since he can't get his to run

[Johnny Brown]

You've missed the subtleties of this, it works perfectly on about five sites.

[cofe]

I recon it might be your hardwear thats being a bit fried dopefield.
Johhny Brown has a router of mine at his you could borrow if you want to try that

cheers chap. although he might need it for his broadband

I doubt it since he can't get his to run

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony

word. i'll try and steal it off him quicksmart.

i can access the online thing for the router but it doesn't help much.

[cofe]

word. got your router but it still dicks up. any other ideas - filter thing?

[Johnny Brown]

Welcome to my world. My solution is to move house.

[Jim]

probably easier (and a lot cheaper) to ring your isp and get them to sort it TBH 

[dobbin]

make me tea. I will certify it doesnt work for you. Its what I do for a living.

[cofe]

cup of or sit down din dins?

anyway, i'm going to be away for a bit so opted to just cancel it instead and move ISP. if that still fucks up then I'll russle up a beef wellington and we can chew the fat.

[dobbin]

I meant cup of, but if you're cooking I'm eating (although not much)