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ExitWound
Porsche Snob
join:2001-12-13
State College, PA
 ·Vonage
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May 17th, @10:13AM
| [Connectivity] State College, PA Intermittant
Anyone else seeing issues? I'm not desyncing, but websurfing, emails, and everything else which requires going outside the LAN is intermittant. Webpages will take 5-10 minutes to completely load. Can't connect to gmail repeatedly, and AIM won't stay connected. I can ping webservers just fine, but actually connecting isn't possible. For instance, this webpage will not finish loading completely and my email just came up "unable to connect". But I can ping the servers just fine.
rebooted all devices.
Edit: Actually it appears that I can ping certain domainnames but not others. I've tried both OpenDNS IPs and Comcast DNSs.
Edit2: I cannot reach anything using 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.3 as DNS entries, but I can using Comcasts' default DNS. I can't reconnect through OpenDNS either. Using Comcast DNS I cannot reach many sites, just a handful.
I can get to »64.233.161.103/ but I cannot get to Google.com.
And Vonage can still connect home and has a dialtone. I suspect this is because they don't use DNS names to register to the network, but real IPs.
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ExitWound
Porsche Snob
join:2001-12-13
State College, PA
·Vonage
| I just called Comcast (lucky that Vonage is working) and the automated recording states that "We are currently experiencing a temporary interruption in your area. It is not necessary to remain on the line." This is before I entered any type of information about where I am. Is it just pulling my phone# and address or is it just giving me hot air? I've never had that message come up before.
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ExitWound
Porsche Snob
join:2001-12-13
State College, PA | reply to ExitWound
Things look to be working now.
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Mr_Awesome
join:2007-05-17
State College, PA
| reply to ExitWound
I'm having the same problem.
It all started sometime in the last week to week and a half when I had an internet outage for about a day. Since then, I've had very intermittent connection, and today, a modem restart doesn't even resolve the problem. In fact, my "send" light has been blinking on my modem for about five or six hours.
I haven't done a DNS check, but my symptoms are identical.
I'm at work now, but as soon as I get home, I plan to spend some time on the phone (I guess) trying to figure out what exactly is going on. | |
Mr_Awesome
join:2007-05-17
State College, PA
| So, after most of the day without Internet, I got home around 5:00pm, and it was back. It stayed online for about two or three hours after that, and then began the intermittent dropping of connection.
Around 9:30pm, I called Comcast, and was prompted by the automated answering service that I was going to wait at least 30-45 minutes and that my area was a part of a major outage. I opted to stay on the phone and was connected to a person (should have written her name down) within about 20 seconds. I told her that I was a part of the outage, to which she asked for my account information. She then said that she talked to someone earlier from my area, but that she could see 150-something of 156 people currently connected. I then described to her my problem, to which she obviously asked me to reboot my modem.
I had done this about 10-15 times since this outage started occurring about a week ago, and I was reluctant, but figured it would be easier to work with her if I actually did go through the motions with her. After a modem reset, the internet came back on (and has been up since).
Before I hung up the phone, I asked her to include some more information in the ticket. Part of my problem seems to be that the modem can't establish a time connection (Strangely enough.) I told her I found this out by going to »192.168.100.1/ She said that I was actually connecting to my router, and I told her she was mistaken, as the router was »192.168.0.1/ She then adamantly told me I wasn't connected to my router, and I told her that when I loaded the 100.1 IP, I was sent to a "Motorola Surfboard Status and Configuration page," and that on there, it showed me the modem's status. I then told her that when the time check failed, the send light would continuously blink. She said that since the internet was working and that she coulnd't see anything wrong on her end, it must be a problem with the modem.
Regardless, it's working now, but I kind of feel like I was given the runaround as she didn't know that my area was experiencing outages, even though supposedly we were. | |
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