Re: Unipod Network Problem

In message <4f1e830466adopt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Bill (Adopt)" <adopt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <070907002501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Hedley Hunnisett <hedleyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <4f1df9a37fUCEbin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> News wrote:

How about using that concealed reset button and trying the set-up again
from scratch? Just to be sure that your initial error hasn't messed
anything up.

Didn't think about the reset button, but I have gone through the set up
routine again, very carefully, and this time there was no error message
at the end.

Never having used broadband, am I right in thinking that the router is
permanently on line? (I'm used to Dialup!). So to log on to a website
it's just a case of loading a browser, entering a URL and hitting Enter?

Yes, but you must not only leave the power to the
router permanently on, but the external line must
remain connected as well. The router is not just
a static switch, but a computer in it's own right,
maintaining and sorting your internet connections
and acting as a buffer - as your 'face' to the
outside world..

This is not correct! You CAN turn your router off at night or anytime
you want. Its just takes a few seconds longer for the router to pick
up the ADSL signal when you turn it back on. - The ADSL signal is
there all the time regardless of if the router is on or not.

Although I tend to leave mine on, thats personal choice and to do more
with my network then anything else.

Treat your router as you would a DVDR, or VCR that
needs to be 'on-stanby' to retain timing and other
data - or overnight EPG downloading etc.

No.

Most digital 'phones have exactly the same 24/7 need.

No.

Still haven't managed that. Netsurf says 'Sorry, Netsurf was unable to
display this page', Fresco says 'No data could be fetched for this
URL'.

Just a sudden, perhaps rather silly thought - but for
how long now has your router now been connected to the
telephone line?

For instance, BT are presently advising their customers
that any new dsl (broadband) line, once activated, will
take anything up to ten days before it will begin to
settle down into a consistent connection. They use this
breathing space - so they say - to judge the speed and
connection of the line as well as your likely use of it.

Basically correct, its the 10 days bedding period for ADSL Max based
services - rather then the fixed rate speed services.

Paul, with Orpheus by way of comparison, does all this
in about five minutes, especially if you've just set all
his machine's alarms ringing at 03h00, forcibly turfing
him out of bed.. ;'))

Eh! What!

It may be that your TalkTalk line itself is still being
'activated'. Not saying it is, mind, but check with
TalkTalk - and believe little of what the answerwing
android reads from it's script until an attached TechBot
scuttles off to check...

This depends on if its a total TalkTalk provided service (phone and
broadband) or one TalkTalk provide in areas they don't have there own
equipment in the local exchange in which case it the normal ADSL Max
service.

But from previous comments in this thread he has already spoken to
TalkTalk at high cost to be told its operational.


Does having the old modem still connected affect the issue?

Not in my experience - and John or Alan will have more
knowledge. From here I can use the modem as a fax modem
at the same time as I'm using the dsl broadband. Also,
if TalkTalk have left your old dialup protocols intact,
then you might possibly still be able to use that connect
into your account if broadband isn't working. (I think
PIPEX used to, or perhaps still do, something similar)...

You can indeed use your modem as fax at the same time as using your
broadband - no problem, I do all the time.

But you can't usually use broadband and a dial up connection at the
same time (except if you used two different computers then it is
possible in theory). Simple reason is the Internet stack/protocals
would not know which to use.

The modem uses the 'Speech/Aural' part of the telephone
line - the dsl connection uses another frequency on the
same line, at the same time. (The two are most usually
separated by a filter - although this may, in some rare
cases, prove not to be necessary)...

Its always necessary, unless you have a Filtered master box
replacement.

Cable is different.




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Chris Hughes
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