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Article #100Re: Everquest Online
From: Angelo Masci
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:00
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:00
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I will have broadband up and running within the next few days and as soon as I know its working I will be waving goodbye to demon and all their packet loss problems - I hope:) My only regret is going to be losing my web pages but hey who cares with the 1700+ spam I get from demon Ive lost interest anyhow. My advice is to use a freeserve account to play EQ, its been working fine for me over the past few weeks that demon's had problems. me wrote: > Its happening again today, its more than just 'packet loss' > I have a network packet sniffer, the packets are just not getting to the > destination servers. My guess is that this > happens when they have a router or link failure somewhere in the and the > alternate routers have slightly different routing tables. > I have e-mailed their Help-Desk three times in the last two weeks, and > apart from the auto response I have had no feedback. > I am no impressed with Demon's service. > > mage flamewear. > > "Angelo Masci" <amasci@styx-dot-demon-dot-co.uk> wrote in message > news:3F12A432.7020300@styx-dot-demon-dot-co.uk... > >>me wrote: >> >>>Are there any EQ'ers using Demon dialup services to the access the >> > European > >>>Servers. >>>If so are you having access problems ? >>>I seem to having a random disconnects or failure to connect every other >>>couple of days. Packet traces suggest Demon have stopped routing the UDP >>>packs or are blocking the UDP ports numbers. When the problem occurs it >> > is > >>>persistent and usually not fixed until the next day. >>>Using the same PC setup changing my firewall to a dial a different ISP >>>removes the problem- but is expensive due to online charges. >>>I have had zero resposne from the tech support desk. >>>Anyone else having similar problems ? >>>Regards >>>Mage Flameweaver >>> >>> >>> >> >>Am seeing the same problems. >>This happens more often than i would like with demon. >>Last time it was in october-november and last well over a >>month. They only started reporting the problem a few >>weeks after it started happening and called it >>'packet loss' >> > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 105d3f,2b9f0dfa8303d64b X-Google-Attributes: gid105d3f,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-04 04:00:19 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Angelo Masci <amasci@styx-dot-demon-dot-co.uk> Newsgroups: demon.games Subject: Re: Everquest Online Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 12:00:15 +0100 Lines: 66 Message-ID: <3F2E3CBF.1000701@styx-dot-demon-dot-co.uk> References: <beh6uf$cao$1$830fa7b3@news.demon.co.uk> <3F12A432.7020300@styx-dot-demon-dot-co.uk> <bfb7on$638$1$830fa7a5@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.177.61.146 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1059994815 12173 80.177.61.146 (4 Aug 2003 11:00:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:00:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020605