Topic 'Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!' in forum 'DirecTV DSL' - dslreports.com

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Mon, 04 Sep 2000 13:34:00 EDT

anon posted : It's a conspiracy!

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:54:00 EDT

elliott4 posted : i had three on sunday, and just had one a few minutes ago, for about 3 minutes...

very very weird.

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Mon, 04 Sep 2000 09:35:00 EDT

monkeydust posted : Well, I just had another one of those outages. It only lasted a few minutes but I was able to try a few things. I could not check my mail (POP3), I could not ping via domain or IP. So, it looks like when things go down, it all goes out including IP access.

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-monkeydust-

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Fri, 25 Aug 2000 07:04:00 EDT

monkeydust posted : Ok, I'll give that a shot next time.

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-monkeydust-

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Fri, 25 Aug 2000 01:16:00 EDT

anon posted : Monkeydust
if just www service is down most likely is your dns is down, try using another dns server, i find telocity dns2 is never up anyway. next time try hitting site using ip address, should still be able to get thru

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:18:00 EDT

Hayward0 posted : Well, you are pinged from the east and west and not simulataniosly so the resolution is probably closer to 5 min, but yes very brief outages could sneak through.
I had them for a very brief period of time about a month or so ago, but they usually turned out to be DSL loss (that didn't trip alarm) if I rebooted the modem.
BS is a relatively small operation down here, and I THINK relatively modern, though not fiber consumer side of CO. Tropical Storms and Hurricanes keep the system pretty well maintained, and at least segmentally updated.
Of the two huricanes I have been here for there was not loss of phone service, unless you happened to loose your drop, or a few places a tree happen to get the line on your street. The system as a whole hardly blinked, throughout Georges which had power out from 1-2 weeks.

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-Hayward
»haywardm.com (Hayward's Key West)

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:38:00 EDT

anon posted : well, i have been having DSLreports monitor my line, but if you only lose connection for 5-10 minutes then it will not show up as an outage.
i lose conenctions sometimes for as litte as 2-10 minutes but i know it doesn't show up as an outage here or from telocity. unless tha time falls 'around' the line monitor ping instead of inbetween it

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:40:00 EDT

monkeydust posted : Well, I haven't had any of those outages since I posted this thread. I am now having my line monitored by DSLReports too and it hasn't seen any outages either. I may not have any outages now, but I do have this fancy new Avatar!

-monkeydust-

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:25:00 EDT

anon posted : I wonder if such outages are related to my occasional email problems (see "How Stable is Telocity Email" thread).

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:13:00 EDT

anon posted : yeah, i know what/where the problem is. i just can't believe its been 5 full months and no one on either end (telocity comm with BS or BS finding/fixing problem at DSLAM) has a fuc*ing clue to what is going on.
i'd rather pull out all my teeth and try to 'gum' a fat and juicy filet mignon than be put through this hell (and its my only choice right now)

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:33:00 EDT

Hayward0 posted : IF you are loosing DSL loop sync that is a telco or wiring issue and not Telocity.

Possibly the modem, but less likely

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-Hayward http://haywardm.com

[This message has been edited by hayward (edited 21 August 2000).]

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:04:00 EDT

anon posted : i have those little outages all the time. ALL THE TIME. which pretty much means i have no connection. sometimes it will go down (red light flashing, no dsl, no service) and within a minute (sometimes less sometimes more) it will come back up. its completely unpredictable and i hate it. i have lost all compassion or tolerance.
good riddance to telocity when i move. i have had telocity since 3.20.00. five months later i still haven't paid a dime. and i won't.

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:56:00 EDT

monkeydust posted : I haven't checked mail during one of these outages. I will check the next time I have one.

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Sun, 20 Aug 2000 23:10:00 EDT

mkrebs posted : haha I Just had one of my little 10 minute sagas and I forgot to check that :>

How would mail work though? if you use mail.telocity.com it still has to go through some internet router... no? Mail Servers are in calfornia with headquarters arn't they?

-Mike

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:11:00 EDT

Hayward0 posted : That sounds like a routing error, probably semi local as it is not network wide.
Just out of curiosity... when that happens can you get to the mail servers? Or is just Web trouble.

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-Hayward
»haywardm.com

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:46:00 EDT

monkeydust posted : Yeah. All my modem lights are normal but going to http://10.5.1.2/ tells me that the www (Internet) service is "DOWN" and the Telocity service indicator in the task bar is yellow. Rebooting the modem doesn't change anything either. I thought it was just kind of weird behavior and was wondering if anybody else experienced this sort of thing too.

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:32:00 EDT

mkrebs posted : PS - My issue is I can sync up but it says I have no www on the stats page (10.5.1.2) but "sevice" is up.

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:14:00 EDT

mkrebs posted : That's amazing!! I have that too!! I'm in new york with telocity though.

I'm not sure... I got some call from telocity that all of a sudden i'm 24,000 feet from my CO... so I don't know if it's me or not... maybe it isn't and something with the telocity network?

-Mike

Re: Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:38:00 EDT

Hayward0 posted : Are they "service" or "DSL" outages???

If they are DSL then that is your Telco monkeying around. If it is just service, then that is Telocity. Could be a number of things in that case. Maintainence, reconfiguration, etc.
Also not all failures trip the "alarm" circutry. I have had some that appeared to be Telocity, (all lights on) but upon rebooting the modem, DSL & service lights out indicating actually a DSL loop lose.

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-Hayward
»haywardm.com

Occasional 10-20 minute outages!?!

Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:54:00 EDT

monkeydust posted : So, I have had Telocity service for a couple weeks now and have had a few outages that last 10-20 minutes or so. What's up with that? I can't figure out what would cause an outage for that amount of time. Anyone have a clue on what can cause these? Just curious, not overly annoyed at this point...

-monkeydust-