🚀 go-pugleaf

I am afraid that it looks like it is Demons connectivity. I proved
this to myself by using the 2Mb leased line at work and I even had the
sporadic lock-ups on that. Combine this with intermittent high figures
on tracert and it all points to the routers near the games servers. Of
course I could be completely wrong and would love to have confirmation
either way.

In answer to your question, I was dialing into the SurfTime phone
number so the connection was going by additonal routers. It was at
this point the system would foul up. But as I said, it unblocked after
30 secs.

Now call me old fashioned but I would have hoped that a connection
originating within demon and traversing only Demons network at only
56k (actually 46k) should get through quickly and reliably every time.

Its a real shame this was happening, but funnily enough it seems much
better this week, even the latency is down by about 50 from 250 to
under 200!!!! What changed??

Hopefully its sorted for now.

Thanks for showing interest.

ME


spam-newsgroups@silverwraith.com (Avleen Vig) wrote in message news:<3ba14489.5503713@news.blueyonder.co.uk>...
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:35:22 +0100, "me" <news@noemail> wrote:
> 
> >Firstly, I am a demon customer and have been using the service for years
> >now.
> >Over the last 6 connection to the games severs has become unbearable. I
> >always got lock-up just at the most inoportune moments. Up until know I
> >though it was my modem or phone line.
> >Numerous calls to BT followed by a new modem have highlighted that its not
> >me. Everytime the lock up occurs the CTS light on my modem goes out. Clear
> >to send is off yet there is a connection, RD and TD go balistic after around
> >30 seconds (but can be minutes).
> >
> >Its your connection to the games servers when I use the 'BT surftime' phone
> >number. I checked this was the case by overloading my connection on FTP and
> >HTTP. Downloaded BIG files and tried to surf at the same time. This was
> >overloading to the max and the connection was rock steady. None of this
> >dropping the CTS malarkey.
> >
> >Any chance of the connectivity being fixed.
> 
> Heya :-)
> 
> Idon't know if I'd blame Demon for this just yet - to me it looks like
> it could be your modem retraining.
> 
> The answer to this is to set your modem to connect at a slightly
> slower speed.
> I assume you're connecting to the Blank ROMP.. what speed do you
> connect at, and what modem do you have? (make/model please)
> 
> 
> Av