No Limits dodgy again?

kmurph · 22-01-2003 7:51pm #1

Anyone else using No Limits in the South East finding that the problems that they had a few weeks ago with http access stopping and starting every few minutes has been occurring again over the past couple of days?

Newsgroups and e-mail are working fine, but every few minutes I can't access any webpages for a while.

Stark · 22-01-2003 7:59pm

Don't use no-limits, but find it happens with Oceanfree and IOL quite a lot.

DadaKopf · 22-01-2003 8:07pm

Yeah, I've been getitng this intermittently over the past month or so.

It's their fault, not yours.

Meh · 22-01-2003 8:14pm

Been happening to me as well, with NoLimits in Dublin. Clears itself up after about 5 minutes at most...

David C · 22-01-2003 8:27pm

Just about to post this...

It's driving me up the walls. Every 2 minutes it seems to stop... and otherwise seems painfully sluggish
I'm on No Limits ISDN.. 56k has the same problem...

Anyone got the tech support number?

sceptre · 22-01-2003 9:01pm

Here too. It's also affecting the "IOL Free" service during that day. There was a thread discussing this fairly recently here - no conclusion out of that one either except that Esat weren't doing anything useful about it if it was continuing to happen.

Dizz · 22-01-2003 9:51pm

Yep same here and bloody annoyed! Terrible latencies :mad: Very much considering jumping ship

Dizz

BuffyBot · 22-01-2003 11:07pm

It's been going on a whole month...and I can't seem to get any answer as to why it's happening and when it's going to be fixed :mad:

I have to say, it's got really bad tonight though!

spongebob · 22-01-2003 11:24pm

dodgy transparent cache maybe, doubt if it is a terminal server problem

irishgeo · 23-01-2003 10:49am

I bet its a consiperacy to get us off no limits and on to netsmart

Tazz T · 23-01-2003 11:08am

Same prob here. Im also in Dublin.

Nevermind FRIACO soon.
/peeks out between fingers over eyes.

Ronan|Raven · 23-01-2003 11:25am

Im getting terrible latency problems as well on the Netsmart service so dont worry irishgeo it aint a conspiracy to get ya from one service to the other!

Kenshin · 23-01-2003 11:37am

I was having the same problem last night.

Then I set my college's proxy as my own, and I didnt have any more problems...

irishgeo · 23-01-2003 12:44pm

Originally posted by Lord of Terror
I was having the same problem last night.

Then I set my college's proxy as my own, and I didnt have any more problems...

I never thought of that. Would i be able to do that and what advantages would it bring.
would they be able to follow what i was viewing.

bashibazouk · 23-01-2003 5:25pm

What kinda traceroute stats are you guys getting?

Meh · 23-01-2003 5:37pm

Originally posted by bashibazouk
What kinda traceroute stats are you guys getting?

Traceroute/ping/POP3/SMTP/VPN all work fine -- http seems to be the only thing affected. Leads me to believe it's a transparent proxy problem, as Muck says above...

Kenshin · 23-01-2003 5:47pm

Originally posted by irishgeo
I never thought of that. Would i be able to do that and what advantages would it bring.
would they be able to follow what i was viewing.

I don't know how it works with other colleges, but in TCD you can use proxy1.tcd.ie:8001 and proxy3 from home. You need a username and password to access them, so it's only for TCD students...

The advantage is that the Esat problem stops affecting you...

As for the privacy issue, I'm sure they log what everybody does, but I don't know anyone who has ever gotten into trouble for visiting warez sites or whatever... I don't think they pay much attention to the logs at all

yellum · 23-01-2003 7:29pm

I'm getting the same problems too. Esat shower of ..

eth0_ · 23-01-2003 7:33pm

Maybe if you lodged an official complaint with esat customer care, something *might* be done rather than complain about it here, this is completely futile!

transparent cache does suck tho.

Moriarty · 23-01-2003 7:40pm

Anyone know of an irish uni that runs an open www proxy that aint on port 80? Would be mighty usefull..

Meh · 23-01-2003 7:42pm

Originally posted by Moriarty
Anyone know of an irish uni that runs an open www proxy that aint on port 80?

None of them, hopefully. Open web proxies are a big security risk -- used by spammers to cover their tracks through the CONNECT port 25 method...

eth0_ · 23-01-2003 7:44pm

Originally posted by Moriarty
Anyone know of an irish uni that runs an open www proxy that aint on port 80? Would be mighty usefull..

I seriously doubt any Irish uni has an open www proxy running, HEAnet would probably put a stop to it.

Do a google search for 'open proxy'. You don't have to use a universities'.

yellum · 23-01-2003 7:57pm

Anyone got the tech support number ? Theres no way I'm ringing a 1550 number for them to charge me even more money.

bashibazouk · 23-01-2003 8:30pm

1890923111

GavinS · 24-01-2003 11:56pm

Been having the very same problems the last few weeks on No Limits. Stops working intermittently, verrrrrrrrrrrrry annoying. Ive had to switch over to errorcom a few times because IOL persistently stopped working.

Grrr - i need DSL - time to move to England.

Mossy Monk · 25-01-2003 12:03am

Netsmart is still acting up. this is a ****ing joke of a service

saik · 25-01-2003 12:59am

ìol1891 been doing the same thing,cant get on irc, slow downloads, and this is the weird part
EXACTLY 50 pl in quakeworld, on off.

daveirl · 25-01-2003 3:21am

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eth0_ · 25-01-2003 9:30am

Is it still fscked?

irishgeo · 25-01-2003 11:41pm

the problem strikes again.

eth0_ · 26-01-2003 12:03am

Originally posted by irishgeo
the problem strikes again.

Are you quite sure about that...what exact problem are you having now?

Gonzo · 26-01-2003 7:32pm

ive been getting this unplayable service over past month also, however i noticed it started happening as soon as esat moved us to new IPs beginning with 213., however sometimes esat connects to the old ones beginning with 194. and there still perfect. why did they do this? It service was great up till now, very fast and low pings around 40 all the time.. now i have to go back to oceanfree and face per minute charges if i wanna play a game.. im on isdn btw and its like using a 14k modem atm wiv esat.... this is a disgrace:(

parasite · 26-01-2003 11:29pm

i've always been connecting to 194......

since mid decemeber, i've had that sporadic 'pause' in connectivity, at least a couple of times a day :mad:
i also get lots of other error messages from time to time ..'remote server didn't assign address' among others
you can tell netsmart was rushed out
sigh

bah

eth0_ · 26-01-2003 11:51pm

Unless you guys actually complain to esat, nothing will be done. Don't you understand? And not to tech support, they don't deal with complaints. Call customer care, write a letter to the CEO, but I really don't think you'll get much results from posting in here...

parasite · 27-01-2003 9:00am

but i'm ...... i'm scared

and irish, hence someone else will do it

Gonzo · 27-01-2003 12:48pm

unfortunately I dont think ESAT are gonna give a damn if i ring up and complain that my gaming pings have hit the ceiling using their service, as im able to surf and check email with esat no problem. Irish Isps do not take online gaming seriously at all.

BuffyBot · 28-01-2003 1:03am

Originally posted by eth0_
Unless you guys actually complain to esat, nothing will be done. Don't you understand? And not to tech support, they don't deal with complaints. Call customer care, write a letter to the CEO, but I really don't think you'll get much results from posting in here...

Wow. Such a cunning plan. Bet no one has thought of that before.... :rolleyes:

eth0_ · 28-01-2003 9:50am

Originally posted by Gonzo
unfortunately I dont think ESAT are gonna give a damn if i ring up and complain that my gaming pings have hit the ceiling using their service, as im able to surf and check email with esat no problem. Irish Isps do not take online gaming seriously at all.

But this thread isn't ABOUT online gaming. It's about a transparant proxy problem that SNL and nolimits has. But, if you dont' want anything done about it, fine by me! :-)

No Limits dodgy again?

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