On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Ross Drummond<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Wesley Parish wrote: >> Well, for what it's worth, it's not getting any better; and I have >> disproved a couple of contentions of the amateurs I've talked to so far at >> Telecom and Paradise.net.nz - I've used the second jackpoint in the flat, >> and it's still falling over like a drunk with half a keg of vodka inside of >> him; and I've just upgraded the PC - and the connection's still falling >> over like aforementioned drunk. > >> > Wesley Parish > > I see you have a Paradise email address. This means that your connections will > be through Telstra Clear's Lucent remote access server. > > Go to this archived message and apply the work around suggested there; > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg50654.html > > If that fails to work append the line "debug" to your /etc/ppp/options file. > This will output a lot of stuff to your /var/log/messages file and may give > you a clue about what is going on. > > Cheers Ross Drummond > >
Indeed if it is an MRU problem then some sites just won't open and you sit there forever wondering why. Others work fine. It depends on whether there are broken routers between you and the relevant web site.
