Announcing New Israeli Tech User Groups

Hi all, My series of books about mastering UNIX tools (see: http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Mastering-Cat/ ) has enjoyed tremendous success, and now I decided to take it to the next logical level. As a result, I have decided to start up several special interest groups (SIGs) or user groups

Re: Announcing New Israeli Tech User Groups

On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 11:21:42 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi all, My series of books about mastering UNIX tools (see: http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Mastering-Cat/ ) has enjoyed tremendous success, and now I decided to take it to the next logical level. As a

Re: Announcing New Israeli Tech User Groups

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 11:21:42 +0300 Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi all, My series of books about mastering UNIX tools (see: http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Mastering-Cat/ ) has enjoyed

How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

I use Bezeq for my infrastructure and Bezeq Beinleumi for my ISP. Every hour or two my internet connection is disconnected. It will remain so until I unplug the modem and plug it back in. Connected to the modem is a D-Link DIR-320 router, which connects my Ubuntu machine via cable and various

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

On 04/01/2013 10:12 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: I use Bezeq for my infrastructure and Bezeq Beinleumi for my ISP. Every hour or two my internet connection is disconnected. It will remain so until I unplug the modem and plug it back in. Connected to the modem is a D-Link DIR-320 router, which connects

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday I called Bezeq Beineumi about the issue, as I've been told by both companies that when the modem's DSL light is lit that the problem is with the ISP. The woman who answered (Galit) informed me that she shows 4

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

On 04/01/2013 10:47 PM, Guy Gold wrote: If you want to simplify the chain of problems, you can have just one device connected to the Modem, if I recall correctly, it will lease one IP address to the connected device (PC/ laptop). If drops still occur, then it is certainly not the router who is

Re: Announcing New Israeli Tech User Groups

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Ori Idan o...@helicontech.co.il wrote: I think Shlomi is the best authority for cat Meow? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

Bingo. This happened to us in Talpiot. Bezeq upgraded the lines without telling us that the old D-Link wouldn't work so well. I replaced it with an Edimax DSL/Wifi router and that solved the problem instantly. Of course, everyone denied the story, the ISP (BBL) and Bezeq. - yba On Mon,

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Faulty logic, sorry. If the drops still occur, it is at least the modem or phone line, ISP, etc, but that does not rule out there being a problem with your router, wiring etc. Remember the number of

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 19:38:45 -0400 Guy Gold guy1g...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Faulty logic, sorry. If the drops still occur, it is at least the modem or phone line, ISP, etc, but that does not rule out

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: If your infrastructure was upgraded from an aDSL-2 to vDSL/aDSL-2 combination units, you need to upgrade your modem. You can tell, by the maximum speed BEZEQ can offer you. If it is 15m or less it is

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Guy Gold guy1g...@gmail.com wrote: If Dotan connects a laptop to the modem's LAN port, instead of the router, and the same issues keep happening, doesn't that clear the router from being the culprit ? Seeing how Bezeq does not have a Linux 'dialer' this is not

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Yes. However, unless his laptop has a darned complete firewall, he'd better reformat it after that test. What would you recommend? I'm not running an SSH server on the desktop, so if I shut down my local Apache

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

2013/4/2 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Guy Gold guy1g...@gmail.com wrote: If Dotan connects a laptop to the modem's LAN port, instead of the router, and the same issues keep happening, doesn't that clear the router from being the culprit ? Seeing

Re: How many times can an internet connection interruption occur and still be considered acceptable?

On 04/02/2013 02:38 AM, Guy Gold wrote: If Dotan connects a laptop to the modem's LAN port, instead of the router, and the same issues keep happening, doesn't that clear the router from being the culprit ? No, it only shows that there is a fault somewhere between the ISP and the LAN port.