Internet Problems

[K2WH]

Anyone notice or having trouble connecting with various websites? I am on the east coast, cant get Yahoo groups or some others. I wonder if it is because of the winter storm that blasted through the midwest with lots of downed wires and blackouts.

K2WH

[KI4PEQ]

I have problems connecting to Texas, New England, and the Far East. Everything else works, but slower than normal. Then again I have a lot of overhead on my high speed connection. Six computers and VoIP, with at least two computers in the shack on 24/7.

[KF0RT]

Been having some minor problems here, too. Slow connections and short outages. Even had the connection at work die today, but by the time I emailed our support guy, it was back up.

73, Rob

[k4kyv]

For the last couple of weeks or so, many times when I click on a link, I get a "cannot find server" error message. Then I click the same link again, and the web page comes right up. Occasionally clicking on a link three times brings up the page, but usually after the second try I just give up and maybe try later.

[KA7RRA]

Quote[/b] (K2WH @ Dec. 01 2006,14:54)]Anyone notice or having trouble connecting with various websites? #
it is Bushes fault he is trying to control he internet

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (KA7RRA @ Dec. 01 2006,16:53)]Quote[/b] (K2WH @ Dec. 01 2006,14:54)]Anyone notice or having trouble connecting with various websites?
it is Bushes fault he is trying to control he internet
He probably is. At best he's got to start putting more into improving our network infrastructure.

[K2WH]

Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ Dec. 01 2006,11:30)]For the last couple of weeks or so, many times when I click on a link, I get a "cannot find server" error message. #Then I click the same link again, and the web page comes right up. Occasionally clicking on a link three times brings up the page, but usually after the second try I just give up and #maybe try later.
Wow, I have been getting that same msg and problem. Hmm. Did you just upgrade to the latest MS browser? I did.

K2WH

[K8MHZ]

It's the Iraqis sucking up our bandwidth. They are the enemy, you know.

[al2i]

I've been a small voice crying in the wildernous. The Internet has been broken for my uses by streaming media, file sharing, and VOIP. The tiny packets I need are no longer getting through in a timely and reliable fashion.

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (al2i @ Dec. 01 2006,20:02)]I've been a small voice crying in the wildernous. The Internet has been broken for my uses by streaming media, file sharing, and VOIP. The tiny packets I need are no longer getting through in a timely and reliable fashion.
The things you mention are a bandwidth headache for every network administrator. For better or for worst they have become a staple part of what the Internet is used for these days. People expect to be able to listen to several multimedia streams while talking over their VOIP phones and surfing the web, all at the same time. As much as I've like to block those services out I can't because they are legitimate users and they expect those services to work. Until they build a bigger Internet with fatter pipes we're stuck with what we've got today.

The one thing I can and will block are fasttrack file sharing services like Kazaa and WinMX. Not because they are bandwith hogs but they are a threat when people use them for downloading copyrighted materials. In the near future I plan to block any and all our Kazaa users into oblivion. I'd advise others who manage networks,large or small, to do it as well.

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] (K2WH @ Dec. 01 2006,19:38)]Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ Dec. 01 2006,11:30)]For the last couple of weeks or so, many times when I click on a link, I get a "cannot find server" error message. Then I click the same link again, and the web page comes right up. Occasionally clicking on a link three times brings up the page, but usually after the second try I just give up and maybe try later.
Wow, I have been getting that same msg and problem. Hmm. Did you just upgrade to the latest MS browser? I did.

K2WH
Doesn't matter. I don't use IE. The same thing has been happening with FireFox too. It's probably all the cookies and spam being generated for the Christmas season. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[kf6rdn]

No problems here, work or home. In fact I just downloaded RHEL4 in about 8 minutes.

[wv6z]

Quote[/b] (n2nh @ Nov. 30 2006,22:15)]Quote[/b] (K2WH @ Dec. 01 2006,19:38)]Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ Dec. 01 2006,11:30)]For the last couple of weeks or so, many times when I click on a link, I get a "cannot find server" error message. #Then I click the same link again, and the web page comes right up. Occasionally clicking on a link three times brings up the page, but usually after the second try I just give up and #maybe try later.
Wow, I have been getting that same msg and problem. #Hmm. #Did you just upgrade to the latest MS browser? #I did.

K2WH
Doesn't matter. #I don't use IE. #The same thing has been happening with FireFox too. #It's probably all the cookies and spam being generated for the Christmas season. # http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif
Same here, but I would have guessed milk and cookies... not spam and cookies. Hmmmm, but it was slow at breakfast time too, but that would have been spam and eggs, wouldn't it? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[AE6IP]

"cannot find server" is probably a DNS problem, not a problem with a site being down, if "server" is something well known like amazon or google. That often means that you are using your ISP's name servers and they're oversubscribed.

[w2amr]

Nope, no problems here.

[K3VR]

"For the last couple of weeks or so, many times when I click on a link, I get a "cannot find server" error message. Then I click the same link again, and the web page comes right up. Occasionally clicking on a link three times brings up the page, but usually after the second try I just give up and maybe try later."

This has been happening here too for about a month!

[k4kyv]

Quote[/b] (K2WH @ Dec. 02 2006,00:38)]Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ Dec. 01 2006,11:30)]For the last couple of weeks or so, many times when I click on a link, I get a "cannot find server" error message. Then I click the same link again, and the web page comes right up. Occasionally clicking on a link three times brings up the page, but usually after the second try I just give up and maybe try later.
Wow, I have been getting that same msg and problem. Hmm. Did you just upgrade to the latest MS browser? I did.
No, I use Firefox. I haven't even upgraded to their latest (v2.0), but still use 1.5.0.8.

I usually wait little while and let others work out the initial bugs before I make a major software upgrade. I'd rather tinker with my transmitter than with computer software.

[W2ILP]

I too have had problems when trying to look at some web sites. Occasionally I can get only half a picture before the blank part gets frozen or sometimes I get two blinking windows that alternately wink at each other.

If you guys have these troubles you need to read what the old prophet Maimonides said in his "Guide to the Multiplexed"....I think.

w2ilp (Invisible Lost Pixels?)...When the little green dots time out...Where do they go?http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[al2i]

Quote[/b] (W2ILP @ Dec. 04 2006,23:47)]If you guys have these troubles you need to read what the old prophet Maimonides said in his "Guide to the Multiplexed"....I think.
When I "get" one of your jokes it is a riot! Good one!

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (W2ILP @ Dec. 05 2006,00:47)]
Quote[/b] ]
too have had problems when trying to look at some web sites. Occasionally I can get only half a picture before the blank part gets frozen or sometimes I get two blinking windows that alternately wink at each other.


For along long time I was running a network of 4 machines through one single dialup connection. When I was on dialup that would happen often. Part of a page would load then it would just stall out and sit there,dead in the water, until I reloaded the page. Since switching to high speed I haven't noticed that problem

[w3bny]

Must be the tubes! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif

[KF0RT]

Quote[/b] (w3bny @ Dec. 05 2006,06:03)]Must be the tubes! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif
Weak finals in the Internet??

73, Rob

[AC0H]

Quote[/b] ]The things you mention are a bandwidth headache for every network administrator. #For better or for worst they have become a staple part of what the Internet is used for these days. #People expect to be able to listen to several multimedia streams while talking over their VOIP phones and surfing the web, all at the same time. As much as I've like to block those services out I can't because they are legitimate users and they expect those services to work. Until they build a bigger Internet with fatter pipes we're stuck with what we've got today.

The one thing I can and will block are fasttrack file sharing services like Kazaa and WinMX. Not because they are bandwith hogs but they are a threat when people use them for downloading copyrighted materials. #In the near future I plan to block any and all our Kazaa users into oblivion. I'd advise others who manage networks,large or small, to do it as well.

Exactly.

At my last job we had a dedicated T1 to Green Bay.
On that T1 (1.544mbps) we ran realtime data updates to databases located on an AS400 in GB along with our long distance phones and internet access. Some bright boy in GB decided it would be a good idea to add video conferencing between Iowa and GB and get rid of our dedicated email server in Iowa so that ALL of our mail traffic went to the server in GB before being sent back down here to clients.

Add all that up and between 6:30am when production started and about 8:00am when the video conference got finished out network ground to a halt. Nobody thought to much of it till we started getting database errors because data wasn't making it to GB in a "timely" fashion.

I caught one of the managers playing streaming internet audio on his PC. I reminded him that streaming anything was against our use policy. He ignored me. I shut off his internet access. Simple.

[KD6NIG]

Get rid of spam email, the idiots sending viruses around that infect computers that then start scanning for other hosts, "you must forward this email or you'll have bad luck for 20 years" stuff, and we'll be well on our way to having more capacity http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

I think a good portion of the file trading we used to see is gone, simply because most people don't know much about computers, and when a few lawsuits were filed, naturally they overreacted http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Its still there, but not as prevelant.

And I'm sorry to say it, but streaming video is where its all going now. Against AUP or no, thats where its headed, and cable companies are glad http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif For the stuff to really work right, you're gonna need that kind of connection http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[W5HTW]

Where's Al "I invented the internet" Gore when ya need him?

Hey, Al! My dialup is horribly slow. Tell all these a-holes to take all that darned video and animation off their sites and tell those idiots that forward all that "pass this along to ten buddies" to send it via snail mail. Yeah, sure they're gonna do that! Envelopes and stamps.

You know, someone has to be incredibly lonely to send something to a friend and say "send this back to me if you love me." Geez What total idiots. Why don't they just write a letter to themselves and drop it into the mailbox?

Al! Fix the internet! Please!

Ed

[WB8MKV]

solar flares ??

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (KD6NIG @ Dec. 05 2006,11:16)]Get rid of spam email, the idiots sending viruses around that infect computers that then start scanning for other hosts, "you must forward this email or you'll have bad luck for 20 years" stuff, and we'll be well on our way to having more capacity http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

I think a good portion of the file trading we used to see is gone, simply because most people don't know much about computers, and when a few lawsuits were filed, naturally they overreacted http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Its still there, but not as prevelant.

And I'm sorry to say it, but streaming video is where its all going now. Against AUP or no, thats where its headed, and cable companies are glad http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif For the stuff to really work right, you're gonna need that kind of connection http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Quote[/b] ]
I think a good portion of the file trading we used to see is gone, simply because most people don't know much about computers, and when a few lawsuits were filed, naturally they overreacted http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Its still there, but not as prevelant.


File trading is still very prevalent. Some users are a bit more wary of garbage software like Kazaa which also dumped spyware on your system. In some instances business network admins learned how to block "fastrack" (on which Kazaa and WinMX is based) thus reducing file trading on corporate networks. On the other hand file traders have moved to other software, i.e. BitTorrent, etc.

[K6BBC]

I honor of Pres. GWB, it shall be here referred to as "The Internets" or "I Use the Google."

K6BBC

[2E0DTO]

Internet can be very erratic on this side of the puddle, too, usually getting 'server failure' or 'can't find host' messages, along with halfway through loading feezeups. It might be seasonal, but a lot of it is spam clogging up the 'net.

[KC2ESD]

For some reason QRZ and Focaljet come up fast yet Space.com is coming up very slow like dial up. WTF

[AC0H]

Quote[/b] ]For some reason QRZ and Focaljet come up fast yet Space.com is coming up very slow like dial up. WTF

We in the biz call it the "/. effect".
Anytime a website is posted on a busy site like QRZ or Slashdot everybody and their brother decides to try and see what the hubbub is about at the same time. Available bandwidth gets sucked down to nothing in a heartbeat.