June 21, 2005
Dear NTL
Dear NTL.
No, 192.168.100.10 is not a good IP address to give to a customer. Not even for an hour. Please choke to death on a giant bunch of cocks.
Lots of love and hugs,
James.
Update: apparently, this address is what the cable modem provides when it loses touch with NTL. So, they weren't explicitly providing it, they'd just dropped my line. Which I suppose is somewhat less fuckwitted.
Posted by James at 02:56
Tags for this entry: rants
You can now subscribe to RSS of comments on this entry or RSS of all comments on this site.
Comments
That's what your CM gives you when it loses touch with NTL for a while. Rebooting it (by power-cycling) is sometimes a good way to persuade it to have another go.
Posted by: Ganesh at June 21, 2005 07:11 AM
Rebooting it about a dozen times worked in the end. I was pleasantly surprised to see there's a little note on the top of the CM, suggesting powercycling before calling support, as a way of resolving common problems...
Posted by: James at June 21, 2005 01:49 PM
If it happened late at night it was probably scheduled maintenance. I think you can find out about it by reading the appropriate ntl.* newsgroup, though I wouldn't swear to it.
Posted by: Ganesh at June 21, 2005 06:10 PM
Damn you and your reasonableness! There was indeed a scheduled "brief outage" that morning, between midnight and 6am.
Curses!
FWIW, http://www.ntl-isp.ntl.com/ServiceStatus/ has the relevant information.
Posted by: James at June 22, 2005 04:02 AM