Cannot connect to Zen

jkm

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Jul 21, 2003, 8:40:44 PM7/21/03

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Nope, I'm in the South-West of Scotland (that might be more North-West than
you) and using ADSL to reply.
"Mike" <duab> wrote in message
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> I can't connect to Zen via ADSL or dialup, I'm in the
> North-West.. Anyone else having problems?
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Mike

jkm

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Jul 22, 2003, 12:54:59 AM7/22/03

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Sounds likely. Although, as you probably know, their news server is a bit
flakey. This wouldn't stop you getting a connection of course. I'd go with
your initial thought of the router, or modem (or both).

"Mike" <duab> wrote in message

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> jkm wrote...

>
> >"Mike" <duab> wrote in message
>

> >> I can't connect to Zen via ADSL or dialup, I'm in the
> >> North-West.. Anyone else having problems?
>

> >Nope, I'm in the South-West of Scotland (that might be more North-West
than
> >you) and using ADSL to reply.
>

> Well I didn't change anything, just left everything alone till
> just now and it's working again. I posted the original message
> via a freeserve dial-up but I could not ping my router even
> though it displayed online status.
>
> I reckon it's the router.
> --
> Mike

Duncan

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Jul 22, 2003, 2:08:28 AM7/22/03

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Can't connect 7.00 am in the South West

Duncan

"Mike" <duab> wrote in message

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> I can't connect to Zen via ADSL or dialup, I'm in the
> North-West.. Anyone else having problems?
>

> Cheers.
> --
> Mike

Cordelia

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Jul 22, 2003, 2:26:21 AM7/22/03

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posted the following to uk.telecom.broadband:

> I can't connect to Zen via ADSL or dialup, I'm in the
> North-West.. Anyone else having problems?
>
> Cheers.

Yes! Same Bucks, dropped 11:30pm last night came back up just
after 7:00am this morning. I was unable to login with an
alternate modem, however the BT and Zen test login user/pass
accounts worked no problem.....

Cordie

Duncan

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Jul 22, 2003, 2:54:28 AM7/22/03

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Now 7.54 and just connected
Duncan

"Duncan" <duncan(remove)smith99@(remove)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Stuart

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Jul 22, 2003, 6:33:57 AM7/22/03

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"Cordelia" <c...@no.name> wrote in message
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I was unable to authenticate between 23:20 and 02:28 - South East London.
Line was OK, router rebooted just in case.

A guy in the Zen newsgroup thought it might be BT's MTU upgrade (supposed to
take 2hours between 00:00 & 07:00). Maybe they mean GMT?

--
Stuart

Ken <muldok

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Jul 22, 2003, 7:42:04 AM7/22/03

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BT Outage

http://www.zensupport.co.uk/service_status/index.asp

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 01:35:22 +0100, Mike <duab> wrote:

>>I can't connect to Zen via ADSL or dialup, I'm in the
>>North-West.. Anyone else having problems?
>>
>>Cheers.

Ken

Sweet memory, wafted by thy gentle gale,
Oft up the stream of time I turn my sail.

Monty

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Jul 22, 2003, 12:16:44 PM7/22/03

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On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:33:57 +0100, "Stuart" <in...@brainsys.com>
wrote:

>A guy in the Zen newsgroup thought it might be BT's MTU upgrade (supposed to
>take 2hours between 00:00 & 07:00). Maybe they mean GMT?

But support states on the zen site that if it was the MTU thing the
outage should last no more than two hours our connection went off at
23.51 exactly when't Zen state between the hours of 00.00 and 7.00 and
I still could not connect at 9am this morning and it was 1PM before I
was able to connect . I resisted ringing support because I know I
would only be fed the usual bull shit .
Monty .