Is the interweb wire to overseas broken?

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Mark _australia
Mark _australia
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18 Nov 2013 9:53pm
Can't get anything that does not have a .au on the end..... no google, nothing
Bishnack
Bishnack
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WA, 45 posts
18 Nov 2013 9:55pm
All ok from here dude.
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
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WA, 23684 posts
18 Nov 2013 9:57pm
Hmmm now I can't get even get Aussie sites like bom.gov.au

Like last time my interwebs died - I can only get seabreeze, and it is not cache stuff cos I am posting, reading new posts that only happened one minute ago etc.
I can see IKW's reply.

Laurie has a direct line to God.

thePup
thePup
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18 Nov 2013 9:57pm
Geez that's pish mate who's your provider has the little lady put a block on you mate rotten to the core that is !
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
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18 Nov 2013 10:35pm
^^^ nah its not her 'pup
Though she probably should restrict me lol

Seems Bigpond's DNS is broken, it can't find any web site at all.....with IE or Chrome...... but I am OK with seabreeze cos I was already here.
Brainiac people is that possible?

Chris6791
Chris6791
WA
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19 Nov 2013 2:10am
The interweb has had a meltdown on hearing Mark has an internet capable phone?
FormulaNova
FormulaNova
WA
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19 Nov 2013 5:16am
Mark _australia said..

^^^ nah its not her 'pup
Though she probably should restrict me lol

Seems Bigpond's DNS is broken, it can't find any web site at all.....with IE or Chrome...... but I am OK with seabreeze cos I was already here.
Brainiac people is that possible?




If you still have a problem, point your DNS to Google's. It's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, so give them a try.
evlPanda
evlPanda
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19 Nov 2013 10:32am
How's he going to point his DNS to Google's if he can't google how to point his DNS to Google's?
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
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19 Nov 2013 8:28am
^^ good point :)

all figured out - my session reset due to floating I.P's and so I just needed to restart. Fkn weird.
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
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19 Nov 2013 8:28am
Chris6791 said..
The interweb has had a meltdown on hearing Mark has an internet capable phone?


You do realise I have had one for 4yrs Chris
grumplestiltskin
grumplestiltskin
WA
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19 Nov 2013 12:21pm
Mark _australia said..

^^ good point :)

all figured out - my session reset due to floating I.P's and so I just needed to restart. Fkn weird.


Not sure why this isn't the first thing you do when things start going wrong?

"Have you turned it off and on again" .... classic from The IT Crowd .... works nearly every time (unless something really is broken).
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
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19 Nov 2013 1:02pm
^^ to my mind if I can use seabreeze the modem and PC are working. Bit counter intuitive to turn off and on but then as I keep discovering: computers are dumb
FormulaNova
FormulaNova
WA
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19 Nov 2013 1:26pm
evlPanda said..

How's he going to point his DNS to Google's if he can't google how to point his DNS to Google's?



I thought he might remember it from last time he had almost the same problem. Failing that, he could ask all the friendly folk on seabreeze...
grumplestiltskin
grumplestiltskin
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19 Nov 2013 4:09pm
Mark _australia said..

^^ to my mind if I can use seabreeze the modem and PC are working. Bit counter intuitive to turn off and on but then as I keep discovering: computers are dumb


yeah, but turning it off and on clears out any residual cached crap, flushes memory etc.
sounds wrong, but its ALWAYS you best, first test.
fitz66
fitz66
QLD
575 posts
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19 Nov 2013 10:05pm
Did you type Google into the Google search engine? that breaks the internet.
Sailhack
Sailhack
VIC
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20 Nov 2013 10:26am
fitz66 said..

Did you type Google into the Google search engine? that breaks the internet.


Same if you type in 'Porn' (so I'm told ).
harry potter
harry potter
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20 Nov 2013 3:26pm
Remember when...............



MUM GET OFF THE PHONE!!!!!!!!!!

IM ON THE INTERNET!!!!!!!
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
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20 Nov 2013 2:27pm
^^^ meh that is pretty new. My accoustic coupler and rotary dialer still works.
FormulaNova
FormulaNova
WA
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20 Nov 2013 4:04pm
Mark _australia said..

^^^ meh that is pretty new. My accoustic coupler and rotary dialer still works.



I actually believe you in this case. You were on network news (rec.windsurfing?) before, weren't you? So, you must have some amount of nerd in you!

mathew
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20 Nov 2013 8:32pm
Mark _australia said..

^^^ meh that is pretty new. My accoustic coupler and rotary dialer still works.


Pics or it aint true...!

An acoustic coupler was pretty hard to come by even in the old days.
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
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20 Nov 2013 7:08pm
Yes I was on rec.windsurfing. No I have never had an accoustic coupler lol but was on dialup until 4yrs ish ago.

I wanted to be the last person on dialup so when they tried to kill it off I'd complain and try to get Telstra to keep it active

Would love to connect with a rotary dial phone and accoustic coupler now and just see what is usable (ie websites) and what isn't

Speaking of old noises - tried to explain to a young'un how "the" SMS tone (that most phones had as default a while back) was Morse Code for S M S

They don't get it....
FormulaNova
FormulaNova
WA
15105 posts
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20 Nov 2013 7:28pm
Mark _australia said..

Yes I was on rec.windsurfing. No I have never had an accoustic coupler lol but was on dialup until 4yrs ish ago.

I wanted to be the last person on dialup so when they tried to kill it off I'd complain and try to get Telstra to keep it active

Would love to connect with a rotary dial phone and accoustic coupler now and just see what is usable (ie websites) and what isn't

Speaking of old noises - tried to explain to a young'un how "the" SMS tone (that most phones had as default a while back) was Morse Code for S M S

They don't get it....



AFAIK acoustic couplers only went up (it's hard to say that word when talking about such speeds) to 1200/75 baud. 1200 bps down! Imagine how "fast" that is....

Not much would be useable at all. If it was 300 bps, then that's 30 characters a second, and every packet needs 1500 characters, and there's lots of those in a modern web page.. Aargghhh! I have a headache just thinking about it.

...but I am sure for Tony Abbott its a usable speed
lotofwind
lotofwind
NSW
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20 Nov 2013 10:37pm
WOW,, you guys really are old!!
SMS tone was morse code, we just learnt that in ancient history along with smoke signals.
But you are from WA so even this crazy new idea of "daylight savings??? WTF, how do you save daylight??" is pretty space age stuff.lol
You will be blowen away when you can watch porn without waiting every 5 second for it to buffer.
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