OT: Somthing ODD

Atrocities · #1 June 14th, 2007, 10:18 AM

Ok this is very weird. So the tech lady has me enter CMD into my run option. Then she had me enter tracert www.dell.com and it did nothing but stated "unable to resolve target system"

Then when I typed dell.com into my browser, (FF) it loaded the page. So I tried www.dslreports. Got a 404. So I did the tracetr www.dslreports.com and it brought up a lot of information. Afterward I was able to access dslreports.com with FF.

The tech lady still doesn't believe that the problem is my DSL router, but I do. She says its all green on her end. However how would you explain this? I mean none of my PC's including the wireless could access these sites.

She is bumping it up to another department. I am back on hold.

Atrocities · #2 June 14th, 2007, 10:23 AM

It had to be either the DSL router or something local within the BB system. Now I can access EVERY site. This is very very odd.

A hick up in the system perhaps? I am still on hold.

Atrocities · #3 June 14th, 2007, 10:35 AM

Well she finally came back and told me that it is a system problem on their end and they will call me back later. At least now I can access my banking site and see how much money I don't have left to spend.

Cost me $55.00 to fill up yesterday.

We poor folks don't have that kind of money.

Fyron · #4 June 14th, 2007, 03:57 PM

$55? What are you driving, a tank?

Renegade 13 · #5 June 14th, 2007, 05:45 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
$55? What are you driving, a tank?

$55 USD would maybe fill 1 1/2 of the 2 fuel tanks on my vehicle. Any medium/large sized vehicle easily can eat that much per fill up.

Sorry to derail your thread AT, but I honestly had nothing productive to add

geoschmo · #6 June 14th, 2007, 07:30 PM

I drive a four door sedan and my last few fillups have been over $40. That's not far from $55. My car's no econo-box, but it's not a tank by any means.

AngleWyrm · #7 June 15th, 2007, 04:01 AM

I had a heck of a time trying to get GameDev.net last night, and it was still dragging it's heals this morning. The top graphic would pop up right away (cached probably)

25~30 seconds later, the ad banner would come up, but still no forum pages. Another 25~30 seconds goes by, and finally the page loads. Happened every time.

My guess is that there is one main advertizing agency that does banners, and they crashed. The result? web sites timing out on an ad banner.

Moral: Don't put 'pre-load' or whatever into your web pages, you might make your customers wait on someone else's problems.

That's my guess anyway.

Baron Munchausen · #8 June 14th, 2007, 07:58 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
$55? What are you driving, a tank?

$55/$3.50 per gallon = 15.7 gallons
Well within the capacity of many ordinary vehicle fuel tanks.

Atrocities · #9 June 14th, 2007, 09:45 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
$55? What are you driving, a tank?

I get around 320 miles to a full tank. Its a Nissan XE 4x4 v6. Very good truck. Have had it ten years plus now and its been very good to me.

Atrocities · #10 June 14th, 2007, 09:46 PM

The word from Qwest was that they were working on something in Denver and that may have caused intermittent connectivity issues in areas. Well at least now I know.