Internet difficulties tonight. Anyone else suffering?

[[1ponders]]

I'm having trouble tonight accessing sites. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to it. I can access IIS and Spaceweather np and plenty of other sites. Yet I have not been about to access others like Yahoo mail, Weather Bureau.

I have recently changed ISPs, but until tonight I have not had any problems.

Any ideas or similar experiences.




Update: Well Iceinspace and Spaceweather are the only ones I can access now.

[astroron]

Not suffering here Paul.

[h0ughy]

now what have you done Mr Ponders. type cmd in the start run box then type ping www.iceinspace.com.au

I get
C:\Documents and Settings\Laptop> ping www.iceinspace.com.au

Pinging www.iceinspace.com.au [72.232.200.132] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 72.232.200.132: bytes=32 time=296ms TTL=54
Reply from 72.232.200.132: bytes=32 time=289ms TTL=54
Reply from 72.232.200.132: bytes=32 time=293ms TTL=54
Reply from 72.232.200.132: bytes=32 time=290ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 72.232.200.132:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 289ms, Maximum = 296ms, Average = 292ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Laptop>


then try another web address

[[1ponders]]

Thank h0ughy, I'll give it a go.

One thing though is I just kicked up the desktop and there are np there so it looks like it is in my laptop.

[ballaratdragons]

All fine down here Paul.

[[1ponders]]

Ok tried the Bom and Heavens above and got

Ping request could not find host www.bom.gov.au yadda yadda

[[1ponders]]

I tried my desktop and the ping requests time out but I can still access them through my favourites and by typing the url in the address bar.

???

[[1ponders]]

BBS. I'll try something.

[[1ponders]]

Ok I switched form cable connected to the modem to wireless and things are working now.

:shrug: :screwy:

I'll swap back over and see what happens then,

[ballaratdragons]

Might be Modem problems, not pooter :shrug:

[RB]

Crickey Paul, had to use a mirror to read your post, put the wires back the right way please !

:lol:

[[1ponders]]

:lol:

Ok I went back to the wired connection and nothing. My netgear says that it was connected but I cant access of ping anything. Shut down put in the wireless pcmcia and np.

I'll play around with some other cables tomorrow arvo and see what happens. strange though that the cable should just suddenly not work. It was fine this morning. :screwy: especially seeing as it says that I am connected. Damn machines.

[[1ponders]]

I'm having that some problem again only now I can't connect with the wireless either. :mad2:

[DeanoNZL]

Hi Paul,
Can you ping your gateway router?

Try to ping www.iceinspace.com.au (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/../).
Then try the ip 72.232.200.132. (iceinspace.com.au)
Any one's work?
If it works by number, not name, then your external DNS is not returning queries correctly.
Are you running a firewall that maybe be blocking queries?
Let me know.:)

Regards

[[1ponders]]

Hi Adrian, pinging IIS works np as does google, but if I ping, say spaceweather then nothing. The only sites I could access were IIS and google and the Yahoo main page. I would receive notice that I had emails waiting but when I clicked on the notification to go there I would get a page unavailable notice. I unhooked my cable and put in my wireless and now np, though before I couldn't get my wireless (netgear) to work.

Pretty kookie. And frustrating

[DeanoNZL]

Hi Paul,
Next time it happens, open a cmd prompt and enter "tracert".
Type address of offending site, it should count the router hops to the failure point. Some internet routers will not display stats, * will appear.
Also, in XP, there is an option to "repair" the network connection.
This will flush the cache and reload your address.
Does your DNS point to the router? or to the ISP?
Also, never hurts to have a secondary DNS pointing to a different ISP, incase your ISP is having problems.
:)

[[1ponders]]

They were all offending sites Adrian :) . The only two I could get were here and google. Even outlook express wouldn't connect. I tried to repair the network connection and that didn't work either.

How do I tell if the DNS points to the router or the ISP?

[DeanoNZL]

How do I tell if the DNS points to the router or the ISP?[/quote]

You can open your "network connection, under status, details".
It will list 1 or 2 dns servers.
If using an automatic ip address, it should point to the gateway first.
These can be altered in TCP/IP properties.
I would try changing your primary dns to point to your ISP, see if that makes a difference.(This will by-pass the router forwarding the query) If not, just change it back to the prior setting.
No need to restart after, it configures on the fly.


Your router DNS is normally set by your ISP, this may not be alterable.
Let me know...

[[1ponders]]

The last bit I understand :lol: My ISP has given me a primary and secondary DNS to use.

However it looks like it is pointing to the routerDefault gateway 192.168.0.1, IP address 192.168.0.3

While looking at the network connection details it also has "Lease Obtained: 31/07/2007 6:57:34 PM Lease Expires: 3/08/2007 6:57:34 PM" what does this mean?

[mojo]

It means that you have (you're leased) that ip address until 3/8/2007. After which you may (or may not) get a new ip address. Don't worry about it. It's not important. You can connect to IceInSpace - what else would you need :)

[[1ponders]]

Access to a bank account or paypal to keep buying astrogoodies :D

[GTB_an_Owl]

Hi Paul

what is the value of the "MTU" setting in the router ?

geoff

[[1ponders]]

No idea Geoff. How do I find that out?

[GTB_an_Owl]

the router will have an IP address to let you look at the management console

it is probably 192.168.0.1 (or it may not be - sometimes it is written on the modem/router somewhere or it is in the manual) (other ones to try are 10.1.1.1 or 10.0.0.1)
you will have to put in a username and password - so you better have a look at the manual if you can find it

geoff