Mury
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On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Robert Hiltibidal wrote:
> > I see this quite often and it's not random. Two causes: 1. They don't have
> > tcp/ip installed. 2. They have 2+ tcp/ip entries (from trying to set up over
> > and over and over, etc.)
> >
> > They need to look in "My Computer", "Control Panel", "Network". Install
> > tcp/ip if it's not there, or remove any extras.
> >
> > Another possiblity is that tcp/ip is not set for their dialup. Check the
> > properties of the connection icon in the DialUp Networking folder.
> > This is check by default, they might have uncheck it though.
>
> Curious, how then can a customer connect normally and have no problems
> and then suddenly start getting this error?
>
> I don't believe its within the win95 or the Comos software yet. BTW I
> have a corporate customer using nt 4.0 and they periodically get the same
> error.
>
> I think what we might be experiencing as a group (some other isp's are
> experiencing the same thing) is something that's affecting our modems
> and/or the customers modems. The internet itself was designed for
> communications during and after the BIG BLEWEY and ditto for phone lines
> themselves. I suspect the weak point in the chain is the modems. They're
> not insulated nor shielded.
>
> I have a couple of customers using linux. A few using nt, several
> macintosh and win 3.x as well as a large following of win95. Several have
> reorted in the last 10 days getting this or a similar (for their
> platform) error.
>
> Some idiot for the company next door backed their roofing truck into the
> telephone pole shorting out several lines about a week ago. i had been
> thinking this might be the source of my problem. As you can tell a large
> portion of my customers are affected and many are using different
> platforms. For me, this is starting to become a serious problem.
>
> Lines have been repaired and people are logging in but the problem keeps
> appearing sporadically across several different ports.
>
>
> Since other people are experiencing the same thing I'm suspecting the
> problem doesn't lie in the equipment itself. Sorry to disappoint the x
> file conspiracy hacks out there but I feel it may simply be sun spot or
> solar flair activity.
>
> Still I'd like to pinpoint the problem and if it can't be fixed at least
> be able to say to a customer "This is what's happening.." Any ideas?
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> Robert Hiltibidal Tek Frontiers
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>
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