Re: Tabbing and drop outs?

Colin Wilson wrote:
I am now running Firefox with just one page open and all seems stable
now. Could running tabs actually be causing these constant drop outs?

Not that I know of, but I can say that i've noticed a general increase in the number of "page not found" events even when the connection is fine, and across a number of machines - four at home, and also at work - via a different ISP altogether. This happens with Firefox and IE.

Simply refreshing the "broken" page will get it back up, but I don't know what's causing the problem generally.

Does the connection itself definitely drop out, i.e. have you tried keeping the stats displayed as you surf, to see if there are any obvious changes to the line status / attenuation ?

I had a few problems with my sky BB a month or so ago - the router/modem would "lock-up" with the LEDs showing OK. Sometimes it would clear but I usually had to turn the router/modem off and on to clear it. This seems to have passed, now, but I have recently started to get intermittent DNS problems (page not found errors etc) which affect Firefox, Pegasus Mail and Thunderbird. As you say, a refresh usually works. I'm considering fixing an alternative DNS server address in the router/modem rather than accept Sky's default.

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