Broadband woes

[Edt]

IS anyone on here a phoneline/broadband guru? BT have been & gone & my gremlins are still here
Ed

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What sort of gremlins ?? - connection dropping ????? etc etc -

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[quote=who me ?]What sort of gremlins ?? - connection dropping ????? etc etc -[/quote]

I'm pretty certain there has been a phone line problem, as the extension socket I've been using to feed the modem no longer works (2 out of 4 lights!) but is ok, now it's downstairs with 4 lights on (Sometimes)

What's currently really odd though is my PC will connect with FTP fine, however email & browsing in patchy at best. IN fact I cant browse at all at the mo, so am using work laptop.. what could have happenend to my PC?! AKAIK the only changes are microsoft XP updates to the OS

any thoughts greatly appreciated as is a massive pain!
Ed

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edt said:

[quote=who me ?]What sort of gremlins ?? - connection dropping ????? etc etc -

I'm pretty certain there has been a phone line problem, as the extension socket I've been using to feed the modem no longer works (2 out of 4 lights!) but is ok, now it's downstairs with 4 lights on (Sometimes)

What's currently really odd though is my PC will connect with FTP fine, however email & browsing in patchy at best. IN fact I cant browse at all at the mo, so am using work laptop.. what could have happenend to my PC?! AKAIK the only changes are microsoft XP updates to the OS

any thoughts greatly appreciated as is a massive pain!
Ed[/quote]

Dump the phone line extension, someone probably trod on it and it is now useless for data

one hopes that the router/modem is next to the BT master socket and a cat5 cable is used to link the router with the pc whereever it is, if ur using phone extensions to the pc, that is going to be the problem

usb modems are generally free as they are not much good, ethernet modem/routers much better

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its a wireless 3com unit. I can browse to the router just fine my PC (192.168.1.1 or whatever it is in the bookmark) and access the software on it. The signal strenght to the router from the PC , although a couple of rooms away, is healthy.

The BT chap installed a new insternal socket to replace the tatty one (master socket only of course) and this is what I've now plugged the modem into in the hope would remove the probs.

Currently re-installing things on PC to see if helps... so tedious!!
Ed

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edt said:

its a wireless 3com unit. I can browse to the router just fine my PC (192.168.1.1 or whatever it is in the bookmark) and access the software on it. The signal strenght to the router from the PC , although a couple of rooms away, is healthy.

The BT chap installed a new insternal socket to replace the tatty one (master socket only of course) and this is what I've now plugged the modem into in the hope would remove the probs.

Currently re-installing things on PC to see if helps... so tedious!!
Ed

edit to say.. removed all firewall stuff.. ADSL stuff.. drivers... blah blah.. no everything back & so far so good. Just about to head out now (roof off.. naturally) hope still working when home tomorrow..
Ed