>From my personal experience, Bezeq is absolutely useless.
I've had regular conversations that go like this "Hi, is there a problem with the ADSL in my area?" "No" "But I have this problem, I haven't changed anything on my PC, and last time this happened, the problem was on your side". After confirming that the problem is indeed "mine", and going through the motions of disconnecting every phone in my house, changing cables, filters, etc, finally they agree to send a technician. Of course in the end it always turns out the problem is on their side, so now I don't even bother phoning any more. Those are the obvious problems, when I can't get an ADSL sync. I still have intermittent speed problems.. I can reach high speeds but they're never stable; it's alot more obvious when downloading from foreign sites. I have accounts with Bezeqint and Netvision - when the speed problems act up, I experience them no matter which ISP I connect through. So, I think we probably have the same problem, only yours affects you much worse. Of course, I could be wrong, and it could be something else... my plan is to move over to Hot (just for Internet) and see how it compares. Gadi P.S. Can you access your modems connection status? Line attenuation and SNR? Although I must admit, mine never look out of the ordinary, I think Bezeq's problems are between the DSLAM I'm connected to and the rest of their network, but its just my thoughts. shlomo solomon wrote: > Sorry if this arrives twice, but my original message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didn't arrive > after waiting an hour. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *shlomo solomon* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > Date: Jul 3, 2007 7:28 AM > Subject: ADSL connection problem > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This is a classic chicken-and-egg problem. I've got a problem with my > ADSL connection, so can't write this from home. On the other hand, > from work, I have no access to Gmail or to the mailing-list, so I > won't be able to see if anyone answers me. > > Therefore, if anyone can help, please CC to my work address - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - although, I'm not > sure the content filter will allow the messages through :-( > > I apologize that I may not provide enough info, since I'm not at my > computer and don't have access during the day. But I'll be happy to > provide any additional info requested. > > First some background history - I've been connected to ADSL on > Mandriva (currently 2007.0) for years with no problems. My ISP is > 015-Smile. The first problem I ever had was 2 weeks ago and that > turned out to be a problem with a hardware component at the Bezeq > side. Since then everything was back to normal. > > According to /var/log/syslog, my connection was up for about 3500 > minutes and went down on Saturday night (at 22:04). Since I have a > script that checks if I'm on-line at regular intervals, I was > automatically re-connected 2 minutes later. Since then, I can't reach > any sites on the Internet. I can ping my local network and also can > ping Internet addresses (for example google or ynet) so I am connected > and DNS is working. The output of ifconfig seems normal. But any > attempt to use a browser (I tried FF, Opera, Konqueror and even lynx) > or to send or receive e-mail (Kmail) fails. Ktorrent is also dead. BTW > - when I try to use a browser, I see the "normal" site contacted > message and there is some sort of exchange of data. For instance, when > I type www.ynet.co.il <http://www.ynet.co.il/>, the address bar shows > http://www.ynet.co.il/home/0,7340,L-8,00.html, so some sort of contact > has been made. > > Since the problem started, syslog has been full of thousands of > messages like the following: > > Jul 2 18:47:01 shlomo1 pptp[9910]: anon > log[decaps_gre:pptp_gre.c:407]: buffering packet 354(expecting 353, > lost or reordered) > > I contacted 015 and after being instructed to telnet into one of their > servers and succeeding (telnet 192.114.186.54 <http://192.114.186.54/> > 110) they said they had no idea what to do (we don't support Linux). > The only thing they suggested was to lower mtu from 1452 to 1420. I > tried but it made no difference. Actually, I didn't really expect any > change since I haven't changed the mtu for the last 7 years and saw no > reason for the change. > > I called Bezeq and they claim the line is clean. > > Although I don't really have any experience with nmap, I tried doing > some random scans of google and ynet and got lots of information, so I > can again say that I am connected to the Internet. > > It occured to me that something may have changed on my system since I > regulary use urpmi to update the system. However, as an emergency > recovery measure,I have a second installation of Mandriva on a > different partition (and have never done any updates so nothing has > changed in over a year). I tried booting from that partition and the > results were the same as on my regular partition. > > I should mention that I don't have Windows, so I can't say if this > problem is Linux only. > > As I mentioned before, please CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > > TIA > -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
