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As a followup to this the connection was up for only 30 minutes and has been down ever since and still down. Called in again to see what is happening on the open ticket. This time the rep (Walter) said he doesn't really see any updates on the ticket whatsoever but he isn't sure he […]

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Was down all day yesterday pretty much from the last post and all day today until I decided to reset the modem. Now back up again. During that whole period I was pretty much able to ping the first router outside of my network. We'll see how long this lasts.

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From SpamBlogging: There is a feature in Exchange 2003 that is “new” (meaning that it wasn't in Exchange prior to this release). Under the “connection filtering” you can set it up to check messages against RBL servers and then toss them if they don't pass … I'll post this here because I'll hear from a […]

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Internet connection was completely down from 1:30am to 3:10am today and has been toast since 7am till now (10:30am). Actually within those outages I can reach the first router with about 50% packet loss but nothing beyond that. I called in to try to get an update on the open ticket. At first I couldn't […]

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Well, its time to update the Linksys thread here. Last week I called Sam back to report that the new router exhibits the same behavior and wanted to give him some feedback on what I tried etc. Never heard back from him. This week I'm having troubles with a different Linksys product (a wireless router […]

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Received another automated call this morning around 11am that my problem is still being worked on. Great, what can possibly take this long? Service has been spotty up to about 2pm but usuable. Seems a little more solid since 2pm but I suspect by about 5pm like yesterday it will go wonky again.

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According to a report by Nucleus Research the cost of spam on average is $1934 / year / employee. They don't provide proper links to their news releases or the report so I've just stored a copy here If you don't want spam to be an issue in your life any longer checkout SimpleFilter (disclaimer: I'm […]

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Since the last post service got better until about 11:45am and then there was no getting past the first route outside my network. So the cable line from here to wherever that first router is was fine but beyond that nothing. That continued until approximately 1:30pm and things have been relatively decent since then. I […]

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Well, since about midnight the connection is looking rough again. Up to 25% packet loss over the last 3 hours and looks to be the same since about midnight. Interesting that I just received an automated call from Rogers (a first) that they know my issue has not been resolved and that they are still […]

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It is no surprise that the technician never showed up. Probably found something obvious out on the street somewhere, fixed it and then never bothered to let me know. Down to 2% packet loss for the last 2 hours so things are definitely better but not good.

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