[H-GEN] intermittent cable connxn outage

[Paul Gearon]

Troy,

On 07/12/2004, at 4:40 PM, Troy Piggins wrote:
> The problem is that just yesterday and today the connection to
> internet is only working intermittently.  By this I mean that it works
> for hour or so, then can't see anything outside (ping, DNS etc), then
> it works for a while, then not.

<snip>

> I can't ping IP address or URLs (when it is not working).  When it
> works DNS resolution etc is fine.  I spoke to ISP and they don't know
> of any problems in the area.  Oh, and as soon as I mention the gateway
> is linux, they say "we don't support linux, windows only" and
> conversation ends shortly after :-(

I should have noted this earlier and responded, sorry.  I'm also 
getting intermittent cable outages.  It's a right pain in the butt when 
doing large cvs updates.  My gateway is a SnapGear box (embedded 
Linux).  Since this is entirely in firmware I knew that I hadn't 
changed anything.

The outages are still happening for me, but do not seem to be as long 
as they were.  I notice them when streaming audio, which is also 
annoying.  While I'd been happy with cable until now, this is enough to 
make me change to ADSL.

Regards,
Paul Gearon

Software Engineer
Tucana Technologies
http://www.tucanatech.com