[ILUG] Irish Broadband connection problems

[Bernhard Rohrer]

philip at imageviewer.co.uk wrote:
> I am having serious problems with the Irish Broadband connection, Linux 
> and XP. The connection goes down several times a day, sometimes for a 
> few hours. When I say the connection goes down, I can still ping my 
> router, IB and also its gateway, but there is no connection to the 
> outside world. Are you having similar problems, because you have the 
> connection as ours? We rang IB this morning and they said there was no 
> problem with our connection. My friend disconnected the router and 
> plugged his Mac directly into the ethernet box. He had an internet 
> connection for about an hour this morning, but its been down ever since.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered problems with Irish Broadband. We have a 
> 1Gbps microwave link (called Breeze) pointed at the transmitter on the 
> old Odlums flour mill in the docklands.
> 
I have a similar problem, also with odlums. when i rang them the signal 
was so week that they coulnd't even find my transceiver ... My ticket is 
being worked on.

ring them when it's down

cheers

Bernhard