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Old April 9th 10, 09:12 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Big Monkey Man
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Mike,

Since this was aired here. I hadn't posted it here as I was waiting for some
activity - of some description - it seeming a bit pointless if no-one is
going to see it. However, as I have now reached the conclusion, for the
benefit of other readers: yes, you were right, Mike, it appears to have had
nothing to do with DNS servers. The router has been upstairs, at the main
telecom jack, for a week and has remained active the entire time.

Also rather than ditching Be I have swallowed my pride and simply switched
tariffs. Basically instead of paying £13 p.m. with no traffic limit, now I'm
paying £7.50 p.m. with a 40GB limit - which I will never exceed or even
approach.


Big Monkey Man

Mike M wrote:
Shane,

Odd, however I have to reiterate yet again that your chosen DNS
server/s has absolutely nothing to do with any stability/instability
issues you might have had with your connection. You can have a
perfectly stable line and no DNS server selected. All that is
required is knowledge of the gateway and the IP addresses of any site
to which you wish to connect. Naturally having DNS servers
configured makes life a lot easier g but aren't required for a
stable connection. Of course, having broken, crippled or
misconfigured DNS servers leads to poor performance, lots of hangs
and erratic speeds but the connection between your PC to the exchange
and then to your ISP's should nevertheless remain as steady as a
rock. That is until you perhaps switch on the microwave or the
streetlights come on or other users that to use their systems and
cross-talk in the cable bundle between you and the exchange builds
up.
If you think or know that your line is suffering from repeated
disconnections you might want to have a look at the private Be forum
as Be announced this week that they intend trialling SRA and are
inviting customers to sign up to participate in the tests. [SRA =
Seamless Rate Adaptation]

Mike


Shane facetious'r'.us wrote:

Mike,

Just to fill you in: my Be connection is remaining 'up' now. I
haven't done anything (beyond verifying that the DNS servers remained
the way I set them i.e. OpenDNS and *only* OpenDNS servers) but for
the last few days the connection has stayed viable no matter how long
I've left it unused. And just to reinterate (I'm sure I mentioned it
before) every time this has been a problem I've run the quiet line
test and it has been absolutely silent.
Shane