[Gllug] Demon ISDN Dialup

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 20 Oct, mike wrote:
> 
> On standard demon dial-up
> No probs tonight, but it was nightmare last night
> 
> On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 20:45, Ian Northeast wrote:
> > Andy Loates wrote:
> > > 
> > > HI there,
> > > 
> > > A silly question for a friday night as we should be all down the pub, but
> > > are any of you Demon users having a problem with their service at the
> > > moment.
> > > 
> > > I cant get on the Web, can ping my gateway address at their end but cant
> > > ping any of their nameservers.
> > > 
> > > Hoping this mail will get onto the system as a test.
> > > 
> > > Any Comments/ideas
> > > 
> > > Their helpdesk is on 20 minutes wait/Recorded status says nothing about
> > > servers down
> > 
> > OK from here using the "Blue replacement" ROMP but there are lots of
> > whinges on demon.service and a status entry warning that customers "may
> > experience lack of routing..". Nothing new here then.
> > 
> > BTW Demon are angels compared with BT. My mate is using the other half
> > of the ISDN pair and trying to connect to BT. After several phone calls
> > and three different numbers, he's given up and decided to slump in front
> > of the telly.
> > 
> > Regards, Ian
> > 
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> 
> 
   There have been frequent announcements on demon.announce newsgroup that
they are doing planned maintenance overnight, taking one piece of kit out of
service at a time, then testing and restoring it before going on to the
next. Could this be the cause?

-- 
Chris Bell


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