On Thursday 28 January 2016 19:00:28 David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2016 18:34:36 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 28 January 2016 18:08:50 David Baron wrote: > > > Royal pain in the ... > > > What do I do about this? > > > > > > Running on up-to-date 64-bit Sid box, running through netgear router. > > > > > > (Saw something about network manager/netcfg conflict but I do not have > > > netcfg.) > > > > I have come across this when a Netgear router was on its last legs. But > > I also met it when my local telephone exchange was undergoing > > maintenance. > > > > Lisi > > Netgear is brand new. Also occurred with the older one.
So it is probably not that then. > I doubt the phone company (ADSL provider) is the problem and they most > likely would not admit to it if they were :-) Oh, BT didn't admit it - even to my ISP - but I live near the exchange. I knew that they were doing work on the lines, I knew when when they were doing work on the lines, and noticed the extraordinarily accurate coincidence between my problems and the presence of a BT van at the exchange. (Monday mornings only in both cases.) Lisi
