blog.jimbo.org.uk - Comments on Dear NTL http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/archives/2005/06/dear_ntl.shtml 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.... en-gb Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:56:19 +0000 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:33:29 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 jkg@jimbo.org.uk 180 By Ganesh 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. http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/archives/2005/06/dear_ntl.shtml#c1130 1130:105@http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/ 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.

]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:11:16 +0000 By James 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... http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/archives/2005/06/dear_ntl.shtml#c1131 1131:105@http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/ 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...

]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:49:28 +0000 By Ganesh 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. http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/archives/2005/06/dear_ntl.shtml#c1132 1132:105@http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/ 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.

]]> Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:10:57 +0000 By James 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. http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/archives/2005/06/dear_ntl.shtml#c1133 1133:105@http://blog.jimbo.org.uk/ 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.

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