Anyone having trouble reaching the semroc website?

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Dave
Fire is the leading cause of fire.
Was once SAM#0132

I just tried, nada. Maybe updating it?

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Kurt Knox
NAR #93503
MASA section 576
SAM #0316

huh, no more problems. Loads fine.

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Kurt Knox
NAR #93503
MASA section 576
SAM #0316

Bellsouth was having problems.

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Carl McLawhorn
NAR#4717 L2
semroc.com

Thanks

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Dave
Fire is the leading cause of fire.
Was once SAM#0132

Bellsouth has a lot of problems. Unfortunately, for me, Charter is the only other game in town and it has even more problems in this area. Bellsouth seems to drop connections a lot more often lately. Sometimes my router pops right back up with a new connection, sometimes it can't do anything with it and even needs to be reset. Who knows what's going on.

Bellsouth has the worst DNS servers on the planet. They don't seem to think so when asked about it. I'm using Free DNS which works 1,000,000,000% better....yep, one billion percent.

Is that number exact, or did you do some rounding?

You would think that Bellsouth would give you a break on your bill to compensate for all the downtime...

Mark

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SAM # 0011

Yep...and the IRS wanted me to keep my taxes this year too.

Oh, I thought SEMROC's site was getting a lot of hits; maybe our thread on the Thor Agena - B model was the culprit?!

BTW, Carl, my payment for the order for the Thor Agena - B parts is headed your way !

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Dave, NAR # 21853 SR.

In regard to Bellsouth....

Approximately 3 weeks ago I woke up to the DSL light flashing on my modem. Not an unusual occurrence I assure you. Most of the time I just reset the modem and all is well. Not this time. I called and went through all of the troubleshooting BS with a young lady who was very nice but whom I could barely understand and was obviously using a checklist.

In the end she determined that my modem was bad and agreed to send me a new one free of charge. I told her that according to her own TS guide I was not getting a signal to the house. She assured me politely that I was wrong and that it was the modem.

Got the new modem....same problem (DUH) so I called back and the tech said they would send someone to the local "hub" and that the issue should be resolved inside of 24 hours.

24 hours later....no joy. New tech said it was definitely my modem!!!??? They sent me a new one (again) and it would not even power up. I was steamed because I knew darn good and well that I simply was not getting a signal to the house and yet another modem was not going to do anything. So now I have one broken modem and 2 good ones but still no DSL.

I called back again and told the tech to put a supervisor on the phone from jump. They transferred me to someone stateside that ran some "line checks" and determined immediately that the problem was local and that the "modem dance" was not necessary and that they would dispatch a tech to my home the following day. It took a total of 3 weeks to get to this point.

The tech showed up and checked the lines and said no signal to the house....DUH!! He located a junction box about 100 yards from the house and fixed the problem in under 10 minutes. A local company and installed some new lines in the box and didn't put everything back correctly.

I am using my original modem and my service is fine but I wish I had another source for DSL here because I would ditch Bellsouth in a heartbeat.

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Gerald Wallace...BAR in Ky.
BoRocks Rocketry Systems
jonrocket.com
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