Posted on 10/02/2016 10:33:19 AM PDT by Bikkuri
Ok.. no idea if this is just me...
I doubt that FR will survive the takeover of ICANN by the UN. It won’t be ham handed about it. It won’t suddenly take out all the traffic and sites it doesn’t like but it will be incremental, perhaps rapidly incremental until it gets to us. Even China didn’t take control domestically all at once.
I’d like to run my updates but I don’t know which ones are win10 stuff.
Don’t worry about finding us; it will be easy. Perhaps a few months after Hillary seizes power, or perhaps as late as two years into her reign, we will all be together in a nice, safe relocation camp. The only glitch is that there will be an equal number of socialist spies in there with us. With care, you should be able to tell patriots from Hillary supporters who are only pretending, most of the time.
I think you saw your ISP having a fart. I have a hard time believing you’ve never seen that before, lines fall down, computers crash, it’s an imperfect world. But then we fix them. Netflix crashed last night, feces occurs.
Okay .. that’s what I was thinking .. and while I was updating MS, I was also updating some other software .. and I don’t think they initially liked each other, as the other software immediately sent me another set of changes.
I update my other software EVERY DAY WHEN I TURN ON MY COMPUTER.
I too did find a slowing; halting; can’t do anything moment or two .. but it seems to have finally cleared up.
No, the world is not coming to an end .. not yet.
Does a HAM license still require an FCC test which can be difficult?
And so it begins.....
I’ve been going through bouts of random DNS loss.
There is a new router, new cable modem, and TWC has been out here several times. They’ve even looked at the logs and saw only a few drops over a couple month period.
Traffic will grind to a halt, webpages stop loading, streaming media stops and the PCs will cycle through the hardwire connection, wi-fi, then no connectivity. Refreshing a page will give a DNS error.
I have tried other DNS addresses. Still random drops.
Within about 10 minutes, it will come back.
The router has up to date firmware, the modem as well as of a couple of days ago.
Very weird.
The problem was with your ISP, or your ISP's upstream connection to the 'Net. It could be as simple as a slow DNS server.
Do you immediately assume that all cars are disabled if your car won't turn over? Or, do you check the battery?
Do you immediately assume that all TV broadcasters have been shut down if your TV doesn't work?
Anyway.. I want to know how to keep in contact, ot at least be able to have/read communication with news events if this gts any worse..
There's this thing called a doorknob, on your front door. Twist it and open the door, then go talk to your nearest neighbor.
But don't be surprised if they don't want to talk to you again after the first time you go running to them because you think the sky is falling.
If you believe that, you don't understand the architecture of the Internet, at all.
u now have to communicate in code
“John has a long mustache”
“John has a long mustache”.
DNS queries are done through an unreliable protocol (UDP). The query is sent out, and it simply waits until a response is returns, or it times out. There's no negative acknowledgement if there's a problem, and a slow DNS server can cause problems.
Traffic will grind to a halt, webpages stop loading, streaming media stops and the PCs will cycle through the hardwire connection, wi-fi, then no connectivity.
A DNS failure doesn't cause this. Your network connection is failing. The reported DNS failure is just a symptom.
Turn off either your WiFi or wired connection and use the other all the time -- all you are doing is postponing reporting of the problem. If both go through the same router, they are both using the same WAN connection -- which is what is failing.
I have tried other DNS addresses. Still random drops.
I presume you mean you are using other DNS servers. If you change it on your router, don't forget that you may have to refresh your laptop/desktop network connection so that it gets a new IP address and the new DNS information. I say "may", because your laptop/desktop may be configured to get DNS information from your router (which is maintaining a local cache).
Within about 10 minutes, it will come back.
Something is failing intermittently, or someone on your network segment is spamming it with packets and drowning out everyone else.
What’s the internet?
Is that what it was (last night; Netflix)? I was getting ready for a HG Wells moment.
Check out the AARL web site....they have instruction books for the technician and general HAM licenses.
Also local AARL members and clubs that can walk you through the test process....and a list of members authorized to give the test....no morse code needed now....(best bent wire) ...and dont forget to....Pack my bags with twelve dozen Phoenician liquor jugs.
No. I am not a techie. My boy does all that stuff and he is in Kansas.
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