Hello tekhammer,

On 03 Sep 14 10:07, tekhammer wrote to All:

Hi all, just wanted to pop a message in here quickly to say that I've
been having some issues with my VDSL connection over the last week.
Over the last year we've had a few power cuts in my area and sometimes that has resulted in my connection being offline for a few days at a
time. This time there were no power cuts, so don't know what is going
on. The line techs think nothing is wrong.

Of course the techs think that. If the lines between their place and yours are bad, they would only know that if they got off their lazy asses and physically checked it. I've ran into that crap before. :)

Maybe this time it's better, or maybe I'll go offline again tomorrow.

So apologies for any backed up messages and files Nick, but hopefully it'll get resolved soon, or at least stop being a pain. If that
doesn't turn out, I'll either shift the BBS into the data centre at
work, or I'll get myself an Amazon AWS account and chuck it on there.

No worries man. I have backed up mail for half of Agoranet and some for Fidonet

as well. It doesn't take up very much space at all. :)

Plus I haven't been around much lately, but hope you're all well.

I'm more mad about that than backed up mail y0e! :)

Just kidding. It's a hobby, and the interest only remains if you're not forcing

yourself to do things you don't have time for. Take care of family and friends first!

Regards,
Nick

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Of course the techs think that. If the lines between their place and
yours are bad, they would only know that if they got off their lazy
asses and physically checked it. I've ran into that crap before. :)

This time a guy actually came round, had a tester and that connected. VDSL modem? No dice.

Of course, given all the other outages, this was the first time I've actually had someone turn up. :/

I'm more mad about that than backed up mail y0e! :)

haha. Yeah, I take on too much, and of course, that isn't slowing down any
time soon. Just finished running a national wargaming convention, but got more on my plate this month.

At least I'm never bored. :)

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Hello tekhammer,

On 03 Sep 14 13:39, tekhammer wrote to Access Denied:

This time a guy actually came round, had a tester and that connected.
VDSL modem? No dice.

Of course, given all the other outages, this was the first time I've actually had someone turn up. :/

So the guy came around to check things, but didn't bring a modem to swap out? I'd figure that would be one of the first checkpoints! :)

haha. Yeah, I take on too much, and of course, that isn't slowing down
any time soon. Just finished running a national wargaming convention,
but got more on my plate this month.

At least I'm never bored. :)

As long as you're having fun, that's all that matters. :)

Regards,
Nick

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On 09/03/14, tekhammer pondered and said...

I went offline on friday afternoon (NZ time), and it came back Sunday
5am. Then went offline again Monday morning, and just came back during
the night last night (wednesday here now).

Bugger... well I'm glad you're back up again but what a pain. I hope they can find the root cause for your sake as it's worse when the problem is on/off.

Plus I haven't been around much lately, but hope you're all well.

Like Nick says it's a hobby so we chuck energy at it as and when time allows.

Take care Tek.


`I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going' - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7

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So the guy came around to check things, but didn't bring a modem to swap out? I'd figure that would be one of the first checkpoints! :)

He's just the line guy. I'm my ISP. :) I had a spare modem, which also failed, but that was one thing his kit was missing. He had ADSL modems, but not VDSL.

It's up now, fingers and toes crossed it stays up.

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Like Nick says it's a hobby so we chuck energy at it as and when time allows.

Oh for another 60 hours in the day. ;)

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