Rodney Baker wrote:
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:53:39 Basil Chupin wrote:
Clayton wrote:
Which version of Firefox are you using - IF you are using FF?
Firefox 3.5.3 as well as Seamonkey (latest) and others. It doesn't seem to be related directly to the browser.
I still have to spend some time trying some of the recent suggestions.
When this problem hits, it only seems to affect loading webpages in any browser... like port 80 was briefly closed or something.
I have to dig deeper into the Router logs to see if there is something there... and also test the access to the router itself is actually interrupted or if it was co-incidental.
Interesting about the Firefox thing. I might have to try downgrading to an earlier FF version... just to see if it makes a difference.
C.
These sorts of problems are a bugger to try and resolve :-( .
Especially when people either do not provide the correct answers or deliberately mislead you when answering your questions -- but none of this refers to the above, just a preamble to the following about trying to solve problems....
I spent 3 months of agonising over why one particular person could not stay connected more than 10 minutes to the BBS I was operating. Of course the problem ONLY happened when he connected to "my" BBS and not any other BBS in the city (naturally!). I told him to try quite a number of things to try and eliminate step at a time where the problem may lie. One of the things I asked him to do was to either, or both, go to friend's house in a different suburb/telephone exchange and see if the problem persisted, or borrow another modem and see if the problem of disconnection persisted. He told me that he did both -- and the problem persisted. (Yet nobody else of the other 600+ users was having the same problem).
This particular person was living with 2 or 3 other fellows, sharing the house and the phone line. The problem was finally resolved by another person living in the same house whose name, would you believe it, was (Andrew) *Clayton* :-) , really, who pulled the phone cord from the socket one night when X was connected to "my" BBS (we had dial-up connections at the time) - and the problem disappeared. X who kept complaining about his inability to maintain a connection to "my" BBS was telling me BS stories about doing what I asked him (about going to another suburb, etc) - he didn't do anything of the kind. The problem all along lay in the new telephone model which our telco was installing for new customers: the phone would draw power from the 'phone line every 10 minutes to recharge its NVAM and this caused line noise which the modem(s) would see as unacceptable line noise and therefore drop the connection. Problem solved, but for 3 months I was given the run around by a person who could not tell the truth about doing what I asked him to do. (And he ended up in the IT industry! :'( ) But that's history now...... :-) .
BC
Ah, yes. The good old days of dial-up modems and the early Telstra "Touch Phones"...
Yes... the ol' (?)1000 Series wasn't it? :-) (But *not* Telstra 'Touch Phone". It was Telecom - which later became Telstra after being partially privatised and had that middle-management AT&T hack (for the life of me I cannot remember his name!) appointed by President Johnson to run it.) BC -- Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days. W C Fields. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org