Strange Broadband ..

[CaptainSpeleo]

No offense taken. Just making sure I wasn't "stirring up the pot". Have a good holiday weekend.

[confus-ed]

No offense taken. Just making sure I wasn't "stirring up the pot". Have a good holiday weekend.

[Pluto]

Well - I have tried all those suggestions and installed IE5.5 but still having the same error. The actual connection is fine it's just IE or Netscape not displaying any darn pages, getting time out message. Am I missing something obvious???

[confus-ed]

Can you ping whatever tiscalis home page is ?

Quite often with these braodband johny's you have to hit some 'verification' page & fill in 'stuff' there, before it'll let you loose on the world ... otherwise their dns server don't want to play with you ! (I ain't sure of the tiscali proceedure, but is 'usual' with many others).

You will of course have noted by now that 'service wise' tiscali are pants, because of course you should be able to ask them all this for free, until at least YOU break it rather than their setup 'stuff' being pooh ...

[NooNoo]

Ed - Tiscali broadband is something my Father is looking at getting, you know, him of the "I turned off the AV because it was blocking my emails"

Are they bad enough to cause me headaches?

[Pluto]

How do I find out tiscali IP?

[confus-ed]

How do I find out tiscali IP?

Does it not tell you on those help instructions ? 98 instructions this time ! ... Nope it don't ! (what's this dial 0.38 business ? mmmm ! modems using x25 calls!! crickey ...)

dns ip is here @tiscali help right at the end(all this 'pooh' should be written down for you in some 'destructions' )

To Noo: If you hate him let him get it ! & then refer him to the help line when it breaks or won't work .... when that does him no good, point out it was his choice, but as he's 'family' you'll only charge him £15 an hour plus petrol & unlimited tea , which is half their rate @50p a minute !
Mu-ha-ha-ha-ha!!

No seriously anyone I know who has tried it has canceled, even when you eventually get it going (I've had a few 'adventures' with that) it's never on !!!! ... 'cannot display page ... dns error' !!!!

[Pluto]

Well I just cannot view anything - only if I wait 10 minutes will a page load!!! And then often the images don't! Tiscali helpdesk don't have any answers - I'm beginning to think I should send the broadband modem back! (Actually I know the modem's OK cos I tested it on another laptop). Something in that machine is doing my head in ... .. .. .. .. ..

[NooNoo]

He went with BT Yahoo in the end, didn't want to lose his email address and then there is the great issue of BT blaming supplier, blaming BT.

Sounds like something is uber screwed Pluto.

[Pluto]

No it's still not going anywhere. I think I'll just committ myself. Maybe I should re-format and start again??

[confus-ed]

No it's still not going anywhere. I think I'll just committ myself. Maybe I should re-format and start again??

Well normally this is considered 'defeatist' by many here ... but we've tried pretty much everything else .... at least this way the worst that can happen is we have a shinny new install that won't work with tiscali

[Prince Abaddon]

Something wrong with the DNS server? (or a setting like that)

[NooNoo]

OK I just been in broadband hell.

512k adsl ok? plug it and go?

smoking upload, 256 but the download? 4, yes 4, not even as good as dialup in these parts.

Booked a call with BT, went through it all with Matridom, and then after some 7 hours of mucking around - just for s&g's I plugged it into the master socket (which is under the stairs behind a panel you have to unscrew from the wall....) and lo and behold, boom up it came wonderous it was, the full broadband experience.

Moral, try a different phone socket.

[Pluto]

Um ... only got the one phone socket!

[Archer]

Self install?
Have you fitted the correct filters on the phone line?
What type of modem usb?
Open a dos window type IPCONFIG /ALL and post back what it says.