This is driving me NUTS!!!!!!!

[[1ponders]]

Update from my other thread here http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=21754

I'm normally such an even tempered person, but I'm just about ready to throw my laptop, desktop and modem through a window.

After a week away with no internet access, last night I thought I'd quickly check in here and see what's been happening. NP desktop boots up and logs on and everything is sweet! This morning I couldn't get a thing! It took me the better part of an hour and a half to get intenet access, but only after switching my laptop from PCMCIA wireless card to cable. Even my desktop wouldn't work.

Now I'm home and I'm on the laptop. I can access IIS np but apart from Yahoo portal, Google and whirlpool.net I can't access anywhere else. Outlook express won't connect either. Oh, and while I can access yahoo.com.au I cant access my email, though messenger is able to send me alerts that I have email being delivered.

[RB]

Oh man !
I really wish I could help Paul, that would drive me up the wall !!
It's bad enough when there's a blackout and I have no internet for a time.

:(

[[1ponders]]

If I ping IIS I get it np, if I ping Exetel (my ISP) I get "Ping request could not find host"

I tried another site at random and could get Steve Moggs webcaddy site np but couldn't get myastroshop.

[[1ponders]]

I just went back to yahoo and this is what I got.

[ballaratdragons]

Paul, it looks compressed! It's like the internet is a big thick rope trying to get to you through a drinking straw!!!

[niko]

It sounds too me like the DNS settings may need to be refreshed. You are getting IIS probably because it's cached - is it your homepage?

We find here at work when the DNS needs resetting we can all access the elements of our homepages (the age, IIS etc) - getting beyond the frontpage but can't access other websites, e-mail etc.

Not sure how to resolve this on a standalone machine (we reset ours on the server) and I'm a Mac man of many years so PC knowledge limited.

cheers

niko

[middy]

I occasionally get connection problems at home and if a reboot of the computer doesn't fix it then I usually have to power cycle the wireless router and then all is good again. It seems to happen randomly with no obvious clues as to why it does it.

[[1ponders]]

I'm starting to wonder if its the router as well. It just seems so intermittent, but it has definately gotten worse over the past couple of months.

[gbeal]

Get a Mac.

[[1ponders]]

Don't tempt me :lol:

[radu5er]

?

Strange that some sites work and some don't.

I'd try flushing the DNS cache on your machine and see if that makes a difference.

Go to the command prompt by clicking on:

Start

then

Run ( type in cmd)

This will bring up the command prompt window...that is the old style DOS looking window. Then type in this command:

ipconfig /flushdns


Make sure to leave a space between the word ipconfig and the /flushdns

It's a bit of a long shot but it won't damage your system in any way and it will remove old DNS entries and force your system to query the DNS server every time you go to an internet address, so the first time you connect to a site may take a bit longer but after that thing should be normal...if it works.

Good luck and don't throw the computer out the window...unless I'm just outside!:P

[[1ponders]]

Didn't work Rick :shrug:

[g__day]

Try

1. Power cycling broadband modem and router if you use them. Keep them off for at least 10 seconds - re-established the line.

2. Checking on http://bc.Whirlpool.net.au - the Australian broadband community if your ISP has issues in your locale.

3. At the command prompt type

tracert www.google.com (http://www.google.com) > netlog.txt

and post what you see in netlog.txt e.g.

Tracing route to www.l.google.com (http://www.l.google.com) [72.14.253.147]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

e.g. US google

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms 10.27.192.1
3 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms bla3-pos4-1.gw.optusnet.com.au [198.142.144.45]
4 12 ms 10 ms 11 ms mas1-ge0-1-900.gw.optusnet.com.au [198.142.144.254]
5 15 ms 9 ms 9 ms sbr3-ge5-0-0-811.gw.optusnet.com.au [211.29.155.12]
6 173 ms 168 ms 165 ms 203.208.148.225
7 168 ms 192 ms 171 ms ge-0-0-0-0.plapx-dr2.ix.singtel.com [203.208.149.2]
8 167 ms 168 ms 169 ms 203.208.169.146
9 184 ms 169 ms 171 ms 209.85.130.6
10 187 ms 186 ms 189 ms 66.249.95.135
11 194 ms 186 ms 185 ms 72.14.233.45
12 187 ms 186 ms 194 ms 209.85.250.69
13 198 ms 198 ms 191 ms 72.14.233.52
14 185 ms 188 ms 187 ms po-in-f147.google.com [72.14.253.147]

Trace complete.

See how slow your hops are to 1. the USA google site and 2. here!

Here:



Tracing route to www.iceinspace.com.au [72.232.200.132]

over a maximum of 30 hops:



1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 7 ms 9 ms 14 ms 10.27.192.1
3 6 ms 8 ms 9 ms bla4-pos4.gw.optusnet.com.au [198.142.144.137]
4 9 ms 7 ms 16 ms mas2-ge0-1-900.gw.optusnet.com.au [198.142.160.2]
5 22 ms 10 ms 12 ms mas3-ge11-0-0-821.gw.optusnet.com.au [211.29.156.11]
6 158 ms 168 ms 159 ms 203.208.148.97
7 161 ms 160 ms 161 ms 144.223.167.185
8 172 ms 160 ms 168 ms sl-bb23-ana-8-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.23]
9 160 ms * * sl-crs2-ana-0-4-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.1.165]
10 201 ms 190 ms 191 ms sl-crs2-fw-0-2-0-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.18.53]
11 194 ms 190 ms 197 ms sl-st21-dal-12-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.194]
12 196 ms 193 ms 192 ms sl-lodst-97520-0.sprintlink.net [144.228.250.94]
13 193 ms 195 ms 195 ms 63.164.96.databank.com [63.164.96.62]
14 191 ms 198 ms 198 ms lt-pod1a.lt.com [63.164.96.230]
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 191 ms 226 ms 194 ms www.iceinspace.com.au [72.232.200.132]

Trace complete.

[[1ponders]]

Done 1 and 2.

Trying 3.

[[1ponders]]

racing route to www.l.google.com [72.14.253.104]

over a maximum of 30 hops:



1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1

2 56 ms 50 ms 52 ms 220.233.1.117

3 * * * Request timed out.

4 49 ms 51 ms 55 ms 10.0.1.2

5 55 ms 50 ms 52 ms 203.202.84.65

6 204 ms 202 ms 197 ms 203.208.171.66

7 203 ms 205 ms 205 ms 203.208.169.154

8 230 ms 231 ms 233 ms 216.239.43.126

9 227 ms 230 ms 231 ms 216.239.46.203

10 226 ms 223 ms 229 ms 209.85.250.67

11 227 ms 229 ms 234 ms 216.239.47.34

12 228 ms 230 ms 230 ms po-in-f104.google.com [72.14.253.104]



Trace complete.

next yahoo mail
Unable to resolve target system name http://au.mail.yahoo.com.

next spaceweather
Unable to resolve target system name www.spaceweather.com.

[[1ponders]]

Tracing route to www.iceinspace.com.au [72.232.200.132]

over a maximum of 30 hops:



1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1

2 55 ms 53 ms 52 ms 220.233.1.117

3 * * * Request timed out.

4 50 ms 53 ms 53 ms 10.0.1.2

5 57 ms 51 ms 50 ms 203.202.84.65

6 215 ms 208 ms 210 ms 4.79.42.229

7 217 ms 216 ms 216 ms 4.68.18.190

8 211 ms 215 ms 216 ms 4.69.134.233

9 216 ms 215 ms 216 ms 4.69.132.10

10 212 ms 216 ms 216 ms 4.69.135.13

11 255 ms 252 ms 252 ms 4.69.132.78

12 254 ms 253 ms 252 ms 4.69.135.1

13 246 ms 243 ms 243 ms 4.68.122.14

14 243 ms 248 ms 242 ms 4.71.170.2

15 243 ms 244 ms 243 ms 63.164.96.54

16 243 ms 245 ms 244 ms 63.164.96.230

17 * * * Request timed out.

18 249 ms 250 ms 242 ms 72.232.200.132



Trace complete.

[[1ponders]]

Next optcorp
Unable to resolve target system name www.optcorp.com.

[MikeyB]

OK, try this (my XP is set to Windows Classic interface - your XP standard interface may differ somewhat):


Navigate to Control Panel
Select Network Connections
Select Local Area Connection
Select Support tab
Click "Repair" button, cross your fingers and pray to a God of your choice!

The above procedure usually works for me when my ADSL connection gets seriously flaky (except when its an ISP problem). Good luck!

[duncan]

My broadband modem does this type of thing sometimes. Unplug modem and disconnect phone line and power for 1 minute then reconnect. This is what we were told to do and it does solve our problem. One can only try it and see. Hope it helps.
Cheers,
Duncan

[g__day]

So your pings and hops aren't wonderful, but aren't drastic either. But boy do Extel's Directory Name Servers (DNS) appear to be causing you problems - maybe ask them if your can specify an alternate DNS server.

When I do a ipconfig /all at the DOS prompt I see my DNS are 203.2.75.132 and 198.142.0.51

If I ping these I get a 8ms response time on the 203. one and a 28ms response time on the 198. one - what are your stats in this regard Paul?

[[1ponders]]

Thanks everyone for your ideas.

Yep did that one a few times Mikey. Sometime she work, sometime she don't. :shrug:

I think however I may have the sucker beaten now thanks to some pmed adviced from DeanoNZL. Yes it was a DNS problem. I don't know how it happened, but I had my old ISP primary and secondary DNS in my network tcp/ip. I don't know how I managed to connect at all. :shrug:

But I'm back online and I know how to fix the sucker next time. Dynamite!!!

[g__day]

Note

http://www.exetel.com.au/a_network.php

Connection Problems Interstate ADSL 1 Connection issues. 13th August 2007 View (http://forum.exetel.com.au/viewtopic.php?p=177284#177284)

http://forum.exetel.com.au/viewtopic.php?p=177284#177284

and Complain here - tends to get noticed

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?f=105

[g__day]

Well done matey - bad DNS will do it every time!

[[1ponders]]

I tried to get a post on the whirlpool forum. Unfortunately I wasn't able to access my email to register as a user. Catch 22 really:lol:

[radu5er]

...and you have written down the new settings, haven't you Paul? :lol:

[[1ponders]]

It will be. When my message box starts to get full I download the whole lot as a text file and save it for posterity. :)

[h0ughy]

well done Paul:P:lol: See, who said computers are difficult.....:whistle:

[radu5er]

Oh yeah! Computers are easy.. it the actual using of the bloody things that drives us crazy. :P