Article View: demon.games
Article #123Re: Lousy connection via Dial-Up
From: Van der Ivor
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:07
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:07
44 lines
2760 bytes
2760 bytes
Avleen Vig wrote: >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 No wonder he's having problems, connecting to the Blank ROMP! Van der Ivor -- I've seen things you newbies wouldn't believe. Attack-lusers aflame off the shoulder of rec.arts.sf.written. I watched Cancel posts glitter in the ether near the waikato.ac.nz gateway. All those moments will be lost in time - like beers in the rain. Time to unsubscribe.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<$5OABkBL8kr7EwIA@law9.demon.co.uk>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!law9.demon.co.uk!foad_spammerReferences:
<999635686.29347.0.nnrp-07.c1ed1e40@news.demon.co.uk> <3ba14489.5503713@news.blueyonder.co.uk>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 105d3f,aeb964331844c002 X-Google-Attributes: gid105d3f,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-23 14:09:02 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!law9.demon.co.uk!foad_spammer From: Van der Ivor <foad_spammer@law9.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: demon.games Subject: Re: Lousy connection via Dial-Up Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:07:23 +0100 Organization: Take the Bait Message-ID: <$5OABkBL8kr7EwIA@law9.demon.co.uk> References: <999635686.29347.0.nnrp-07.c1ed1e40@news.demon.co.uk> <3ba14489.5503713@news.blueyonder.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: law9.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: law9.demon.co.uk:194.222.5.119 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1001279324 nnrp-08:20889 NO-IDENT law9.demon.co.uk:194.222.5.119 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U <eiXfQ1nCPDS+l5DOw+kdJ6aUfL> Lines: 48