Steve Holdoway wrote:
...so your local network and pc was working, but your internet access
was not? You could start your mail and web clients, but not retrieve
any new data?
10.x.x.x is a 'local' IP address ( class A as was 0. It never gets
published on the internet. That way, anyone can use this range for
their home/corporate networks without having to use up published
addresses.
Yep. Auto-configured by Xtra's dsl-modem.
If the status light is flashing abnormally, then you do *not* have
internet connectivity via adsl. None. At all.
Until I reset the modem using Windows XP and Internet Explorer logon to
10.1.1.1. After that, status was good: connectivity restored (to
10.1.1.3 at least, from where that reset was done).
Que?
Philosophically (:
Another thread, you mean?
Did you look at your neighbour co's ADSL for them?
You'd have seen similar strangeness if that was your business.
It's not strangeness... it's a lack of connectivity. No voodoo involved.
Well, I wasn't looking for any. I asked what other people's experience
of the network/hardware condition had been, rather than suggest any deep
insight into my own. That's how one learns.
Cheers, Rik
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