Connection failure

[chromium]

Since midway through the afternoon of the 27th June my connection to ZetNet seems to have gone AWOL. Is anyone else having difficulties, or am lucky one!

All I get is a message on dialup stating that either the username or password is not recognised by the domain.

<small>[ 28-06-2002, 09:34 AM: Message edited by: chromium ]</small>

 

[chromium]

Sorted: Don't know what happened though; it just started working again!

 

[X-QUORK]

It's an odd one, but I've had a similar experience. I found that a reboot of the PC sorted it out - don't know if it's the same glitch though.

 

[PeteD]

No, I cannot connect at the moment - ISDN flaming out during connect phase - error 651. Yesterday also getting invalid password reported. Not even getting this far now ( <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />

 

[Ron E]

Hi everyone,

Sorry to report no similar problems here (yet!)

In particular, Pete, I'm on ISDN as well, the Surftime package. Running Windows 98.

Never any help when someone says things are OK for them, is it.

How you doing Chromium?

 

[PeteD]

Oh Joy, All's well again - but it was out for most of the day this time. Previous recent outages not so long as today. Still using old C9 connection - could this be relevant? You soon learn to recognise when the problem is 'their end' and not do the reboot, re-type password thing!! No matter, ADSL beckons...

 

[Captain_Cretin]

I'm on the C-9 dial-up too , and i couldnt connect until about 10pm (ish)
Kept getting password/username errors.

My freeserve account wouldnt connect either

 

[chromium]

Hello Guys,

All's well again, at the moment! I'm using the old C9 number as well, 56k modem style. ADSL beckons me too but, unfortunately, I live out in the sticks so I don't expect to see fast connection speeds this side of of any time soon. I'm toying with a sattelite connection, as I don't play games etc. It just galls me that I threw away all my old anologue satellite kit a couple of years a go, and it looks like the required kit points back to the old Astra Analogue Sats at 19.2 degs East.

I wonder what's going to happen to the Old C9 accounts when contract year's up?

 

[Ron E]

Looks like the answer may lie in the old Cloud 9 connection. I moved over to a Zetnet account in April, which may point to why I am not having the same problems?

I'd also say that I am receiving far fewer firewall alerts on this connection, which was my chief reason for the switch. Even ater Zetnet took over I was getting bombarded during every connection. Has that settled down with you guys now?

As to broadband - I wish! I too live too far away from any significant centre of population to even hope for an exchange upgrade any time soon. Which sat option are you looking at Chromium?

All the best

 

[peter_w]

Hi all

I'm ex-C9 friaco. Last Thursday I started getting 'invalid username/password' problems. The service came back briefly Friday morning, then died completely and my dial-in number went unobtainable (continous tone). It's now Sunday and it's still dead.

Two emails to zetnet support (cc Jon Rayment) have produced no response whatsoever.

Anyone else having (or had) these problems? Anyone know how to kick support to get a response?

btw my dialin number is 0808 9933043, anyone got an alternative?

Peter

 

[surfpig]

Peter

Rest assured, it`s not just you. Same friaco problems here on the same dial-up number, but no mention of it on the Zetnet website. Just sitting tight at the moment.

Cheers

 

[Ron E]

On the subject of FRIACO and what happens at the end of old Cloud 9 contracts, am I alone in remembering assurances by Zetnet, at the time of the Cloud 9 buy-out, that they were about to introduce their own FRIACO service?

It has come back to mind for me recently as BT are raising the monthly cost of Surftime from £20 to £25. With the Zetnet monthly charge added on, + their (Zetnet) introduction of a 100 monthly hours limit, it's all getting rather expensive on Surftime, compared with some other ISPs FRIACO & Web hosting products.

Assume the above is relevant to those of you with expiring Cloud 9 annual contracts?

<small>[ 30-06-2002, 06:29 PM: Message edited by: Ron E ]</small>

 

[LongSteve]

Unobtainable number for me too since Friday evening, it's Sunday evening now.

I had been happy enough with the service, but I suppose you only really get to find out about service when something goes wrong!

Cheers,
Steve

 

[Captain_Cretin]

i remember the Fraico quote, thats why i stayed on the old number, as to firewall alerts, its hard to tell, i recently started using kazzalite and it seems to attract scripkiddies like a moth to a flame; last week i logged over 1500 alerts in 1 hour, and some of these alerts consisted of 700+ attempts each.

This is tonights biggest so far ( and kazza isnt running yet)

The firewall has blocked routed traffic from 212.140.212.103 to 224.0.0.10 (IP Protocol 88).

Occurred: 520 times between 30/06/02 22:31:18 and 30/06/02 23:11:18

 

[X-QUORK]

It can be quite difficult getting a response from Zetnet. When I tried getting an answer from them about new tarrifs, I had to resort to posting their e-mail replies on this site after getting the runaround. It seems public humiliation helped motivate them.

 

[chromium]

Hi Ron,

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> Which sat option are you looking at Chromium?
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I am tentatively looking at <a href="http://www.europeonline.com," target="_blank">www.europeonline.com,</a> although I'm also investigating a 128K ISDN solution which might suffice in the short term. Ultimately, I guess that I'll sit down and add up the costs of both (Kit, Usage, Rental etc.) and make a decison sometime in the late autumn when my contract is due to expire.

I stayed with C9's old number purely on a cost basis. 56k is now becoming prohibitive and also the 2 hour cut-off can be galling at times. I've used AOL at various times during the year to circumvent the cut-off issue, but I don't think I could use them as my primary ISP long term (Some stupid street cred issues seem to stop me )

 

[Ron E]

Hi Chromium

Congratulations on reaching 100 posts!!

Thanks for the information - I'll check out europeonline.

Have to say that ISDN has worked well for me so far, it's Surftime costs that are the bugbear. I have also thought about 128k - it would only cost the same as my new charges with the recent increases.

Know what you mean about streetcred - I thought at one point about going back to Virgin, but somehow it doesn't sit too easily at my age <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

All the best