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Re: [Sheflug] BT Broadband



Alec Melling wrote:
The regularity of the timing seems to tell me this is all to do with BT's side of things.... But, of course they tell me that it has to be a problem at my end. "Using what sir! Linux!!! ahhhhhhhhh...."
I find the best way to cure OS blindness like this is to tell them I'm running X-Windows with a silent X - then both ends of the conversation are happy ;)

When your connection is down, can you have someone try and traceroute to you? I asked a friend to look at my connection on Friday (through Zen) and interestingly, the last hop was a couple of hosts before the edge of the Zen network - might at least tell you where the breakage is.

- J
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