Rik
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This is my uncles story. As many may be able to appreciate, there are loads of people out there without any technical knowledge about computers, let alone connecting the internet....that's where I came in.....
A month or so ago my uncle decided to cancel BT, and go with Talk Talk, as the deal was cheaper.
About 2 weeks ago he then received a letter from BT saying basically "We understand you want to leave us, give us a call"
So he called BT, and they offered him the deal of 12 months at half price. So he took it.
He assumed that the deal with Talk Talk would be cancelled, and would continue his service with BT as normal.
Come the day that he was due to leave BT, his internet connection seemed to not work anymore.
He has a Voyager 210 ADSL router connected by ethernet cable.
He phoned BT, and spent nearly 2 hours going through checks on his computer etc, but to no avail.
They said everything is fine, and there are no problems with the connection etc.
So he called on my help.....I went round last night and had a look.
Everything looks fine....all the LED's on the router are on as they should be.
The router diagnostiics say it's connected to broadband etc.
But if you ping anything, there are no results.....100% loss on pinging everything.
So we phoned support, and I spoke to India or somewhere siimilar for over half an hour.
Went through loads of tests, reset IE etc.
He then asked me to run: netstat -na
Am not sure what that is supposed to show us, but the man on the phone said that if there are more than 15 entries, then that means the computer has spyware on.....and that he can't give me anymore help.
Now I personally don't think that is the problem, as prior to phoning the helpdesk, I connected my Netbook to the router, and couldn't get connected with that either.
So I said to my uncle that I would take his PC back to my place, and do a few checks.
Since having his PC here, I have successfully connected to the internet with it using a wireless connection, and I have used both SpyBot and Adaware and discovered there is no Spyware found.
Does anyone have any ideas where I can go from here?
From what I can see the PC is fine, and to me there seems to be a problem with the broadband connection
A month or so ago my uncle decided to cancel BT, and go with Talk Talk, as the deal was cheaper.
About 2 weeks ago he then received a letter from BT saying basically "We understand you want to leave us, give us a call"
So he called BT, and they offered him the deal of 12 months at half price. So he took it.
He assumed that the deal with Talk Talk would be cancelled, and would continue his service with BT as normal.
Come the day that he was due to leave BT, his internet connection seemed to not work anymore.
He has a Voyager 210 ADSL router connected by ethernet cable.
He phoned BT, and spent nearly 2 hours going through checks on his computer etc, but to no avail.
They said everything is fine, and there are no problems with the connection etc.
So he called on my help.....I went round last night and had a look.
Everything looks fine....all the LED's on the router are on as they should be.
The router diagnostiics say it's connected to broadband etc.
But if you ping anything, there are no results.....100% loss on pinging everything.
So we phoned support, and I spoke to India or somewhere siimilar for over half an hour.
Went through loads of tests, reset IE etc.
He then asked me to run: netstat -na
Am not sure what that is supposed to show us, but the man on the phone said that if there are more than 15 entries, then that means the computer has spyware on.....and that he can't give me anymore help.
Now I personally don't think that is the problem, as prior to phoning the helpdesk, I connected my Netbook to the router, and couldn't get connected with that either.
So I said to my uncle that I would take his PC back to my place, and do a few checks.
Since having his PC here, I have successfully connected to the internet with it using a wireless connection, and I have used both SpyBot and Adaware and discovered there is no Spyware found.
Does anyone have any ideas where I can go from here?
From what I can see the PC is fine, and to me there seems to be a problem with the broadband connection