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This is what I get abismal(AOL)

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Old enough to know better(but)still young enough not to care

From London local



From London to SanJose



London to Los Angeles

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Los Angeles Trunk Speed Test:




San Jose Trunk Speed Test:




Perhaps TW may come through in the end, after all. However; it has taken eight, (8), months of agonizing suffering on the part of myself and all of the other TW Customers to get to this point. There had to be a better way of dealing with this when they took over Adelphia and split Adelphia's assets between themselves and Comcast. Just my honest opinion. Hopefully TW will continue to progress and resolve the current TW DNS Server(s) connectivity issues in Southern California, (as well as Nationwide), so that they can get their version of the Comcast "Turbo" implemented on the Internet Package that I have with them. It has been a long and seemingly uphill battle with TW, and I am tired of what seems like a lot of game playing and finger pointing; as well as shoulder shrugging up until about two and a half months ago when their Tier 3 Tech Support was finally assigned to my case, and they actually listened to me about the DNS issue(s) from August to present. Not only did they listen, but they finally acknowledged that issues were real and truly on their end... Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel, I don't know; again, I just believe that there had to be a better way to do all of this.


Sincerely,

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I am using treewalkdns on two of my WinXpHe systems, as a primary & secondary dns server. Installation is a snap, and I'm not tied to Comcast's dns servers.

The other systems on my LAN use the two WinXp systems as dns servers. ( One WinXp & 4 Mandriva Linux boxes ).

I'm using an Aeronet Aero 14 router, which has a 100mb WAN port, and the dns requests from treewalk pass right thru the router without any user adjustments. :-)

Google for the treewalkdns web site.

There also is opendns.

Claude

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Oh, and a thought hit me pertaining to my last two posts... Even with a full Non-TW DNS Server List entered into Windows; does not such PC Connectivity still rely on the Router, (as the primary LAN Gateway), to "see" these DNS Servers? That is, don't these proposed Non-TW DNS Server Addresses also need to be plugged into and implemented by the Router, in my case the aforementioned Netgear WGT624 v3 Router which will NOT let me manually enter any DNS Servers??? Just a thought.

<EDIT: >

Also; (memory slap), it just hit me that when I upgraded my Parents' to their now wonderfully fast 22MB Download and 768K Upload Package, (Still being sold and termed as the Comcast "8MB Down and 768K Up, but with "TURBO" implemented), I traded up from their older leased Motorola Surfboard 4100 Cable Modem to the newer RCA Cable Modem. Prior to the Modem switchout, their PC was directly connected to the Surfboard. I did have manually set DNS entries, all local Comcast DNS Servers. However; upon switching to the RCA Cable Modem, those DNS entries in Windows were unusable... The RCA Modem did properly assign, (via DHCP), a TCP/IP Address to the PC but refused to let the PC "see" the Web while the manual DNS entries were running.

On a whim, I reset the Windows connection to accept automatic, (and consequently new), DNS Server(s) from the RCA Cable Modem. BINGO, full internet connectivity. Then I shut down the PC and connected in line their new Netgear WGT624U Wireless Router, connected the PC to the Router and restarted the PC. Connectivity to the internet continued, and continues to this day.

So, I have my doubts as to the manually input DNS Server Entries into Windows on Excalibur and somehow bypassing the Router's assigned DNS Entries and further getting passed the Cable Modem to see the internet... Somehow, these newer Cable Modems are "blocking" these manual entries, at least under Comcast and TW.

</EDIT. >


Sincerely,

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Well; after months upon months of various and plagued issues with the Time Warner take over of Adelphia and splitting Adelphia's resources between TW and Comcast, TW is at it again!!! They are finally beginning to tackle the flaky DNS issues that I have been experiencing since Day 1, Minute 1 of the SoCAL trunk work in Los Angeles.

This flakiness includes "partial internet access" where one minute I can browse the internet on both IE and Firefox but not be able to ping out to "apple.com", or even the reverse - being able to ping out, but not browse... LOL

At present, the "automated" phone support for TW is alerting Customers in Riverside County that "...there is a known outage in your area. We are working on the issue." However; as usual, there are no details as to what they are doing... 8-( LOL I can't ping "yahoo.com"; thus, cannot get IE nor Firefox to get to the Yahoo Home Page, thus, cannot get my e-Mail... @##@$#@##$$#@#@!!

THIS SUCKS, AGAIN!!!!!
<rant rant rant rant rant >

You do know htat you DO NOT have to use TW's DNS servers even though you use them as your ISP, right?
Do a search on the net and you will find the details and lots of DNS servers you can use. I have Comcast and a few years ago they too had DNS problems and I went to a different from Comcast set and it worked fine.

Unfortunately; my new Router, (Netgear WGT624 v3), doesn't allow manual DNS entries. It pulls the DNS addresses straight from the ISP. In my case, that's TW. So, that makes me stuck between a rock and a hard place until such time as TW gets their DNS Server issues straightened out. Quoted as to be finished by next month. Therefore, I have nowhere to go... Thanks for the thought, though.
Sincerely,

If you are using Windows you can set it under network neighborhood, properties, local area connection, properties, tcp/ip properties. You can set each computer differently if you'd like.

According to page 3-6 of the Netgear WGT624 v3 manual (warning, large pdf), you can override the ISP settings and supply your own choice of DNS.

Thank you for your efforts; however, that manual lies. When entering the firmware via Web Browser, (any browser; I prefer Firefox, but I also tried IE), I can "see" what the DNS Servers are that TW is assigning the Netgear; however, they are "grayed" out with absolutely no way to override them. ...and, at the moment, (as explained and detailed in my last post to Mikey), the Netgear is only being assigned two DNS Server Locations, one ending in .89 and the other ending in .90. It is the .89 that is the faulty DNS Server, and also listed as the primary DNS Server. So, when it acts up I seem to lose the ability to ping out via Command Prompt to various locations. Usually "ping apple.com" is the location that fails; this week however, it is "ping yahoo.com" that is failing. Yet even with the failure to ping to these locations; I am able to "surf", (albeit partially), the Web via Browser. However; the surfing is sporadic and intermittent and also takes a LONG time, with many "timeouts".

As frustrating as this is; in TWs defense, (just so it is officially noted that they can't be said or viewed as they're doing nothing), this is a great GREAT improvement over issues from August 1, 2006 to late December 2006. During that period; when TW had DNS issues, I could NOT surf, nor ping, yet as reported in one of my Rant Session Threads then - my Vonage Router, (now exchanged for a PAP2), was able to bypass the dead TW DNS Servers, (as long as the Cable Modem was reaching a Primary TW Server and being assigned an IP Address to allow the Cable Modem to connect to), and I was able to make phone calls. This was explained to me by a TW Tier Level 2 CSR Support Rep that, "...because the Vonage Device stores its own TCP/IP information directly it is able to navigate beyond the TW DNS dead zones." This was confirmed in my former Rant Session Thread when Captain Avatar posted saying, "...yes, I too was able to make phone calls even though unable to surf or connect to the Web." (Quote paraphrased, CA's exact words escape me, but this was the basic and essential meaning that he imparted.)

So, where do I go from here? ...and, as asked of Mikey, where do I locate DNS Entries to plug into Windows that are NOT TW DNS Servers, but that won't conflict or be shut down connectivity wise, (blocked), by TW???


Sincerely,

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Well; after months upon months of various and plagued issues with the Time Warner take over of Adelphia and splitting Adelphia's resources between TW and Comcast, TW is at it again!!! They are finally beginning to tackle the flaky DNS issues that I have been experiencing since Day 1, Minute 1 of the SoCAL trunk work in Los Angeles.

This flakiness includes "partial internet access" where one minute I can browse the internet on both IE and Firefox but not be able to ping out to "apple.com", or even the reverse - being able to ping out, but not browse... LOL

At present, the "automated" phone support for TW is alerting Customers in Riverside County that "...there is a known outage in your area. We are working on the issue." However; as usual, there are no details as to what they are doing... 8-( LOL I can't ping "yahoo.com"; thus, cannot get IE nor Firefox to get to the Yahoo Home Page, thus, cannot get my e-Mail... @##@$#@##$$#@#@!!

THIS SUCKS, AGAIN!!!!!
<rant rant rant rant rant >

You do know htat you DO NOT have to use TW's DNS servers even though you use them as your ISP, right?
Do a search on the net and you will find the details and lots of DNS servers you can use. I have Comcast and a few years ago they too had DNS problems and I went to a different from Comcast set and it worked fine.

Unfortunately; my new Router, (Netgear WGT624 v3), doesn't allow manual DNS entries. It pulls the DNS addresses straight from the ISP. In my case, that's TW. So, that makes me stuck between a rock and a hard place until such time as TW gets their DNS Server issues straightened out. Quoted as to be finished by next month. Therefore, I have nowhere to go... Thanks for the thought, though.
Sincerely,

If you are using Windows you can set it under network neighborhood, properties, local area connection, properties, tcp/ip properties. You can set each computer differently if you'd like.

OK - while this is true; and I did utilize that method when I had my Linksys Router, (took what the Linksys had as DNS entries and duplicated them into Windows), the only DNS entries I am getting off the Netgear are two different DNS locations. One of these DNS locations, (since the full implementation of the RoadRunner DNS Network in my area), is a faulty, (has issues at least 50% of the time), DNS Server, then I am subject to the TW DNS issues in my area until TW fixes my area.

I used to have 8 DNS Servers saved on hand for just such the emergency with Adelphia. However; TW has taken all of those DNS Servers off of my area of availability. (They have been pulled off the Server line physically; replaced by the faulty TW DNS Servers.) So, I humbly ask, (also frustrated), where do I obtain a DNS list that I can utilize that will function properly via the assigned TW Cable Modem. (ie: A non-TW DNS List that TWs system won't block me from, that will stabilize my Internet Connectivity???)


Sincerely,

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TimeLord04
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Well; after months upon months of various and plagued issues with the Time Warner take over of Adelphia and splitting Adelphia's resources between TW and Comcast, TW is at it again!!! They are finally beginning to tackle the flaky DNS issues that I have been experiencing since Day 1, Minute 1 of the SoCAL trunk work in Los Angeles.

This flakiness includes "partial internet access" where one minute I can browse the internet on both IE and Firefox but not be able to ping out to "apple.com", or even the reverse - being able to ping out, but not browse... LOL

At present, the "automated" phone support for TW is alerting Customers in Riverside County that "...there is a known outage in your area. We are working on the issue." However; as usual, there are no details as to what they are doing... 8-( LOL I can't ping "yahoo.com"; thus, cannot get IE nor Firefox to get to the Yahoo Home Page, thus, cannot get my e-Mail... @##@$#@##$$#@#@!!

THIS SUCKS, AGAIN!!!!!
<rant rant rant rant rant >

You do know htat you DO NOT have to use TW's DNS servers even though you use them as your ISP, right?
Do a search on the net and you will find the details and lots of DNS servers you can use. I have Comcast and a few years ago they too had DNS problems and I went to a different from Comcast set and it worked fine.

Unfortunately; my new Router, (Netgear WGT624 v3), doesn't allow manual DNS entries. It pulls the DNS addresses straight from the ISP. In my case, that's TW. So, that makes me stuck between a rock and a hard place until such time as TW gets their DNS Server issues straightened out. Quoted as to be finished by next month. Therefore, I have nowhere to go... Thanks for the thought, though.
Sincerely,

If you are using Windows you can set it under network neighborhood, properties, local area connection, properties, tcp/ip properties. You can set each computer differently if you'd like.

According to page 3-6 of the Netgear WGT624 v3 manual (warning, large pdf), you can override the ISP settings and supply your own choice of DNS.

Well; after months upon months of various and plagued issues with the Time Warner take over of Adelphia and splitting Adelphia's resources between TW and Comcast, TW is at it again!!! They are finally beginning to tackle the flaky DNS issues that I have been experiencing since Day 1, Minute 1 of the SoCAL trunk work in Los Angeles.

This flakiness includes "partial internet access" where one minute I can browse the internet on both IE and Firefox but not be able to ping out to "apple.com", or even the reverse - being able to ping out, but not browse... LOL

At present, the "automated" phone support for TW is alerting Customers in Riverside County that "...there is a known outage in your area. We are working on the issue." However; as usual, there are no details as to what they are doing... 8-( LOL I can't ping "yahoo.com"; thus, cannot get IE nor Firefox to get to the Yahoo Home Page, thus, cannot get my e-Mail... @##@$#@##$$#@#@!!

THIS SUCKS, AGAIN!!!!!
<rant rant rant rant rant >

You do know htat you DO NOT have to use TW's DNS servers even though you use them as your ISP, right?
Do a search on the net and you will find the details and lots of DNS servers you can use. I have Comcast and a few years ago they too had DNS problems and I went to a different from Comcast set and it worked fine.

Unfortunately; my new Router, (Netgear WGT624 v3), doesn't allow manual DNS entries. It pulls the DNS addresses straight from the ISP. In my case, that's TW. So, that makes me stuck between a rock and a hard place until such time as TW gets their DNS Server issues straightened out. Quoted as to be finished by next month. Therefore, I have nowhere to go... Thanks for the thought, though.
Sincerely,

If you are using Windows you can set it under network neighborhood, properties, local area connection, properties, tcp/ip properties. You can set each computer differently if you'd like.

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Well; after months upon months of various and plagued issues with the Time Warner take over of Adelphia and splitting Adelphia's resources between TW and Comcast, TW is at it again!!! They are finally beginning to tackle the flaky DNS issues that I have been experiencing since Day 1, Minute 1 of the SoCAL trunk work in Los Angeles.

This flakiness includes "partial internet access" where one minute I can browse the internet on both IE and Firefox but not be able to ping out to "apple.com", or even the reverse - being able to ping out, but not browse... LOL

At present, the "automated" phone support for TW is alerting Customers in Riverside County that "...there is a known outage in your area. We are working on the issue." However; as usual, there are no details as to what they are doing... 8-( LOL I can't ping "yahoo.com"; thus, cannot get IE nor Firefox to get to the Yahoo Home Page, thus, cannot get my e-Mail... @##@$#@##$$#@#@!!

THIS SUCKS, AGAIN!!!!!
<rant rant rant rant rant >

You do know htat you DO NOT have to use TW's DNS servers even though you use them as your ISP, right?
Do a search on the net and you will find the details and lots of DNS servers you can use. I have Comcast and a few years ago they too had DNS problems and I went to a different from Comcast set and it worked fine.

Unfortunately; my new Router, (Netgear WGT624 v3), doesn't allow manual DNS entries. It pulls the DNS addresses straight from the ISP. In my case, that's TW. So, that makes me stuck between a rock and a hard place until such time as TW gets their DNS Server issues straightened out. Quoted as to be finished by next month. Therefore, I have nowhere to go... Thanks for the thought, though.


Sincerely,

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TimeLord04
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Well; after months upon months of various and plagued issues with the Time Warner take over of Adelphia and splitting Adelphia's resources between TW and Comcast, TW is at it again!!! They are finally beginning to tackle the flaky DNS issues that I have been experiencing since Day 1, Minute 1 of the SoCAL trunk work in Los Angeles.

This flakiness includes "partial internet access" where one minute I can browse the internet on both IE and Firefox but not be able to ping out to "apple.com", or even the reverse - being able to ping out, but not browse... LOL

At present, the "automated" phone support for TW is alerting Customers in Riverside County that "...there is a known outage in your area. We are working on the issue." However; as usual, there are no details as to what they are doing... 8-( LOL I can't ping "yahoo.com"; thus, cannot get IE nor Firefox to get to the Yahoo Home Page, thus, cannot get my e-Mail... @##@$#@##$$#@#@!!

THIS SUCKS, AGAIN!!!!!
<rant rant rant rant rant >

You do know htat you DO NOT have to use TW's DNS servers even though you use them as your ISP, right?
Do a search on the net and you will find the details and lots of DNS servers you can use. I have Comcast and a few years ago they too had DNS problems and I went to a different from Comcast set and it worked fine.

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Wow this thread makes me feel lucky, i get 15000 down, 2000 up from my cable provider for 45$ a month. They also offer 30000 down 5000 up for 55$ a month

<sarcastic, dry, humor on: >

Just wait till Time Warner buys out your Cable Company...

<sarcastic, dry, humor off. >


Seriously though, that's pretty awesome. As mentioned prior in this Thread, my Parents' are on Comcast, (not TW owned in their area), and now pay $54.95/Month for the "8MB Down and 768K Up" Package, (in quotes, because their Comcast Tech Crews and Field Maintenance Service Techs implemented a "Turbo" package; which), actually getting them 22MB Down and 768K Up.

TW here in SoCAL is supposed to implement the same technology here as Comcast did there. Until they first get the TW DNS Server connectivity issue resolved, (supposedly next month), I am stuck at 6MB Down and 768K Up. However; when they do finish their futzing around, I will be stepped up to the 8MB Down 768K Up Package which will be their first package to implement the TW version of the Comcast "Turbo" technology. Then that will give me the same 22MB Down and 768K Up that my Parents now have.


Sincerely,

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Wow this thread makes me feel lucky, i get 15000 down, 2000 up from my cable provider for 45$ a month. They also offer 30000 down 5000 up for 55$ a month

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Here’s what I get from the local ’phone company—just their basic ADSL service:

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Here I am at work, same ISP but connected through a different switch:

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I suspect the size of the file used to test the downloadspeed is a bit on the low side. I'm not getting more than ~10000 kbps. It should be closer to 14000 kbps. (for a server near me)

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One from Down Under, Telstra bigpond cable @ AUS$60 /mnth

OK, I'll throw in some examples from Nottingham UK:

Local(-ish) sites:






And across to near Berkeley:






Quite a variation despite geographic distance.

Happy crunchin',
Martin

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I like MSN better for their email as an alternate to verizons email or as a supplement.

ackk, msn/hotmail email is evil, you get loads of spam from msn, the interface is horrable and you you cant read it via pop.
(unless you pay a heavey fee to do so)

if you want i can seend you a gmail invatation....

you get 2.8GiB of storage, yorui account dousent expire afetr 30days of unuse,
they haev a really effective spam filter, and never send you any spam themselves.
you can acsess you emails form POP,
there is an archive so taht you never have to delete an email again, just archive it to clear yur inbox.
and you can use googel's search to search your emails!

very good stystem

if you want an invite email me at
dasy2k1 (at) gmail (dot) com
and i will send you one



i just tested my works boradbabd...


not bad really, looks like they have a ballanced 1024/1024

my current home broadband is 2048/256 but that is quite cheap at £13.99 a month,

here in the uk the best you can normaly get for home use is
8096/256

it seesms that to get more than 256 upload you have to get buseness broadband and pay a fortune for it, tho home ADSL is cheap.

i head that BskyB are offering 12288/256 but im not sure, i think that may only be if you live next door to the phone exchange!

and rumor has it that 24576/256 is coming soon

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All you have to do is visit any Yahoo site to pick up spyware...They are probably not the best company out there but I doubt I would list them as shady...Most advertising sites and such add spyware to your machine. A free program such as Adaware by lavasoft takes care of them as they really slow down seti.

I'm very aware that Yahoo and it's software are loaded with spyware, but that's not your ISP when using cable or xDSL, so that really doesn't answer how simply selecting a specific ISP causes you to have spyware.

I can understand visiting sites gives you spyware (that much is obvious), but I don't like using most third-party software anyway, especially Yahoo.

Also, I've already purchased the full version of AdAware SE Plus and I also use Spybot Search and Destroy to find those bits that AdAware doesn't pick up. Using both in tandem proves very useful for getting rid of 99.9% of all spyware in one's system.

Me too, I found one tonight, On TW I would find about 4-8 at a time, Why I don't know, It's not like I went anywhere special, go figure. In any case I'm not crazy about Yahoo, I like MSN better for their email as an alternate to verizons email or as a supplement.

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