Posted on 06/12/2014 6:51:39 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
I'll try to make this as short as possible, because I never know when a page is going to load.
As you may recall, I started having connection issues about three and a half months ago. After eliminating every other issue I wound up getting another (rebuilt) computer.
Late last month the same issue began showing up so I returned the computer to the repair shop at which I bought it. They hooked it up to their connection and announced that there was nothing wrong with it.
As recently as last Sunday this thing was working like a top. Now not only will it not play videos, it doesn't even want to load still pictures and sometimes doesn't want to load a page at all. I've been on the phone twice today with my ISP. The first guy remote controlled my computer, checked out my browser, and said it was working great (which it was for him). Then after hanging up I was once again having the greatest difficulty loading pages. I called again and was told there was absolutely nothing wrong with the network. So it's not the computer, it's not the modem (either one of them, since they both have the same problem), and it's not the network. I'm losing my ability to surf the Net at all and apparently there is nothing wrong with anything.
The DSL is sending someone to check out our wiring over the weekend (I'm grasping at straws that it may have something to do with the days of flash flooding saturating the soil and perhaps doing some harm to the phone lines, though we have no problems with the telephone itself). If he once again tells me there's nothing wrong with anything and to take the computer to the shop (been there, done that) I'll simply have to cancel my Internet account. I can't afford to keep paying this for service that's indistinguishable from dial-up.
I don't want to do this. But it looks like that's what it's going to come to barring a miracle. I'm absolutely sick about this. Everyone's jerking me around and disclaiming responsibility, every else says it's working for them, but i can't do anything.
I've been online for seveenteen years, the past seven on DSL, and never had any problems at all until just a few months ago. Furthermore 5/24 was my fifteenth anniversary as a FReeper.
Please don't tease me by asking if my computer is plugged in. Not funny, guys. Don't try to give me advice because I won't understand a word of it. And I don't have any laptops, smart phones, or any such thing . . . just one desktop plugged into one phone jack.
Please forgive my tone, but I am at my wit's end. I hope I will somehow be able to stay online, but if no one can find anything wrong, I don't know what to do other than cancel. And no, we don't have cable out here.
I hope this isn't the end, but if it is . . . well, I'll miss all of you. And I'm well aware of what an unpleasant jackass I am most of the time. Thanks to Jim Rob and everyone else for putting up with me.
The NSA is probably watching you. They disconnect when anybody else uses the computer.
Drop us a line once in awhile.
Any chance of ditching DSL and getting cable? It’s physically much more robust and supports higher speeds.
I had to get a new modem due to some changes comcast is making in the way it sends data. Things are considerably faster now that I have the new modem.
Is your DSL line the same as the phone line? Is the line clear when you make a regular phone call?
What you describe is like when ants built their nest in my closest termination box. The data would stream intermittently, and I couldn’t figure out why I had problems. But when I took a phone call, and couldn’t understand person I was talking to because of all the extraneous noise, I called the provider, and they evicted the ants. Everything cleared up after that.
Seriously I hope they find the problem, you always bring an interesting perspective to things.
I’m in agreement.
Even though cable is a questionable investment, and I’m always (this) close to dropping it.
The internet is quite good however.
try speedtest . net
I have DSL and it works fine.
Yup. Sorry.
First, get the Status off the Modem. On AT&T this is at http://192.168.1.254/ I go to Broadband (status) to see what the deal is. Typically you have too lines and I had one going down a lot. If you have a downed line, lets say on line 2 a lot, tell them it is line 2.
What really gets the phone company is when you say the LED for Line 2 (if that's the problem) is at it again. Then you can call them again when they do the minor fix that doesn't fix it and get them to upgrade the Line Port(s). Under Status, look at CRC errors. They shouldn't be going up fast except during a storm.
And that's the problem with Copper wires, they are susceptible to RFI (think storms). So pray for Fiber Optic as that is the only really good thing these days.
My DSL got much better when they upgraded my line ports. The Line 2 and line syncing problems went away.
Comcast was disconnecting me eight to a dozen times a day a couple of months back.
Ive made no changes in software nor hardware. The problem finally just slid out of sight
All my best.
PEBKAC error
Have you updated the computer’s video card lately? Or any of the other drivers or sofware that runs your computer?
From your description I presume you have reinstalled your OS and/or removed malware and do not have virus.
If so then perform speed test of your DSL. can do that via online tests
if technicans are saying there is no problem this sounds odd to me if you are consistently getting good speed on your tests.
What about the deep security scans by several different programs?
Did the guy at the shop absolutely assure you that it isn’t malware?
I went through months of the same type thing several years ago. I kept buying new equipment and my ISP sent repair crews out repeatedly. Finally a competent crew identified the culprit as a tiny corroded coupler outside of my home.
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