On 02/05/2010 17:36, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I re-booted my Eircom ADSL modem (Netopia) yesterday,
> after adding a pin-hole,
> and it took several hours to come back on line.
> I'm wondering if that is normal;
> has anyone else had this experience?
>> I was wondering if the problem is at my end or at Eircom's end.
>> Eircom supplied the modem about 4 years ago, I think.
> Is there any point in getting a new one?
> It works fine apart from this one problem.
FWIW we had intermittent connection problems for the last few weeks, and
it turned out that the router (an Eircom-supplied Netopia) was on the
blink.... replacing it with a new one fixed the problem. The router was
about four years, I think - can't remember exactly, but at least that.
Ray.
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