Did the internet just die?
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BliarOut

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72,863 posts

270 months

Monday 12th February 2007
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yikes Did anyone else get hit by this? Lost the lot irked

Plotloss

67,280 posts

301 months

Monday 12th February 2007
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Put the phone plug back in...

BliarOut

Original Poster:

72,863 posts

270 months

Monday 12th February 2007
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Even my neighbours handy wireless backup didn't work.... Must have been an exchange thing.

shocker-z

554 posts

249 months

Monday 12th February 2007
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What bout if it was just your PC? then that would explain neither ways working?

or do you mean they tryed and it wouldn't either? should of had a look to see if there router had picked up an IP address would have explained it then.

Liam

BliarOut

Original Poster:

72,863 posts

270 months

Monday 12th February 2007
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shocker-z said:
What bout if it was just your PC? then that would explain neither ways working?

or do you mean they tryed and it wouldn't either? should of had a look to see if there router had picked up an IP address would have explained it then.

Liam

It was an outage... Rang the upstream providers and they were a little surprised how I got their number so quickly hehe

shocker-z

554 posts

249 months

Monday 12th February 2007
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haha, atleast they admitted it im supprized they didnt say right can you link the modem direct to your PC, restart it put your hands on your head count to 10 and say i love the internet and then try again! lol


Liam

BaconBonce

579 posts

266 months

Monday 12th February 2007
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Sorry, I just rebooted the Internet.

Apologies for any inconvenience!

BliarOut

Original Poster:

72,863 posts

270 months

Monday 12th February 2007
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BaconBonce said:
Sorry, I just rebooted the Internet.

Apologies for any inconvenience!

Reminds me of when we used to do "scream tests" in the exchange paperbag

shocker-z

554 posts

249 months

Monday 12th February 2007
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remind me of when im doing a server reboot and forget to phone the client and forget to choose reboot! NOT GOOD! especialy when the company only has women employees and they turn the other bloody server off too instead of the one thats off on!!!!

lol


Liam

FourWheelDrift

92,381 posts

315 months

Monday 12th February 2007
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BaconBonce said:
Sorry, I just rebooted the Internet.

Apologies for any inconvenience!


Did you press the stop button on your browser AGAIN!

BaconBonce

579 posts

266 months

Monday 12th February 2007
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FourWheelDrift said:
BaconBonce said:
Sorry, I just rebooted the Internet.

Apologies for any inconvenience!


Did you press the stop button on your browser AGAIN!


I did back it up to floppy first