Sorry to have to put this message here. I can't get in anywhere else! I keep trying to get to the "OUAT..." and the 'Over 50's' pages, but only get as far as the 'Computer Video' gif. The rest of the page remains blank, it's very frustrating. So if you're wondering where I'm hiding - I'm not - I just can't get through to see what everyone else is writing. Therefore I have no idea what to reply to! So I took the easy option and started this new thread!
I presume everyone else must be having similar problems every night - like wading through treacle. Is it any better for those of you with ISDN or NTL-Broadband?
Anyway, if you don't hear any more from me tonight I do apologise, I'm going to switch off the computer and have an early night.
Cheers,
Chirpy.
P.S. Hopefully, when I press 'Submit New Topic' it'll work and not hang on me. 
...well I tried it once and got 'Connection Timed Out' The second time my modem disconnected. So here goes again...'Connection Timed Out'...and again...Oh dear I just got redirected to the 'Chatter' page to see I'v 'multi mooblied' oops! Now I'll probably be half an hour deleting them all!!! 
Hi Chirpy,
By now you must have hit the sack because I have been trying all day and got the same as you - blank screens and timed out. I tried this morning, lunchtime, this afternoon, evening and now again tonight - all the same blank screens for most of the time.
I'm off to bed too but I'll try again tomorrow.
Regards,
Paul
I'm on ISDN at work and NTL-Broadband at home.
I worked late tonight (until 19:30) - during the day, no problem, but by 19:00 it had slowed considerably (see my posting in "Over 50's").
Now I'm home, I sit and play a game of solitaire waiting for the page to change.
Is it lots of people, or...
John 
Hello again,
I decided not to go to bed! After trying to submit this topic 6 times and getting 'Time outs' or my modem cutting out. I got quite a shock to see that all of the submissions had gone through! If anyone managed to see the 'Chatter' list, it was headed by six identical topics! (A multi mooblie)
Thankfully - although it took some time to do - I managed to delete the first five before anyone managed to post a reply (phew!) (that's why I didn't go to bed!). But I imagine that's what caused John to do a double-post here - unless he's deleted it by now.
By the way, I just wanted to let Bob C know that I didn't post this thread to have a go at him. 'cos I know that it's not his fault. It was just that I had no other way of letting others know why I haven't answered anyone's posting. I know people are getting through because I keep getting "You've Got Mail" notifications. It's just frustrating that I can't see what they are!
Hopefully, all will be well in the morning.
Cheers,
Chirpy.
Hi all 
Dear chirpy, i use Telewest Cable Broadband, and most of the time can vouch it is worth every penny (if you use/stay on-line a lot)
In the evenings especially the last week or two have been having problems connecting to CV Forum, but not other web sites (strange that?)
During the day however flies through the pages, broadband also makes a mockery of downloading,
Have noticed your post to "John" in the over 50,s thread, and would strongly suggest that if you go down the broadband route,
Buy your own nic pci card, not only are they very cheap now, but fitting is a doddle and if already fitted it takes minutes for the engineers to get you up and running.
Consider firewall as a necessity rather than a possibility,
At the moment either mself my wife or my daughter seem to be on the internet, my only concern is (when im back on my feet haha made a funny, when im up and running hoho chuckle, (sorry about that had a couple of really silly minutes must be the tabs oops tablets).
yes if yourself, Tracy ? (hope ive got the name right?) are on the internet a lot then it is worth the change over.
My two penny worth (he says whilst wading though expected software) "mooblie quote".
Kind Regards.
Regards all.
But everything is working well this morning.
Now where did I get up to.....?
Paul
T'was like winter's toffee just a few minutes ago, as well. Timed out several times before springing back to life.
Yes I just got home half an hour ago and tried to logon to the forum but got 'time out' messages. I came back just now and opened up easy-as-pie. Strange???
Evening again all,
Chirpy - you must have been quick - my double-posting was only there as I needed to correct something and didn't want the "edited by..." note. I posted the corrected version as a new posting and then went back and deleted the original. You must have been in during the 2 minutes that both postings were showing (now you know my trick) 
By the way - another good thing about broadband - we have two computers and I have connected them together on an ethernet link so Ol'ga and I can both be on-line at the same time (and the telephone still works.
John
Just noticed this message.
I've reported the problem to our host and also sent them a report from our site-monitoring firm.
I'll report back when I know more.
Bob C (also finding the experience treacle-like and also had to write this message twice, cos it wouldn't post the first time!!!)
[This message has been edited by bcrabtree (edited 27 September 2001).]
Bob, thanks for looking into the problem and doing your best to sort it out. Will you be posting your report re. 'Treacle' here or in your 'recipe' thread?
John, I've been using the 'delete' method of editing my messages for ages. I find the [This message has been edited by...etc.] really annoying!
Thanks for the info re. Broadband, which reminds me...I forgot to reply to Stuart about Telewest. We only have NTL here in Colchester (same as you, I think, John). I don't know whether they'll let me use my own nic pci card (whatever that is?). If so, how cheap is 'very cheap'? Firewall is not a problem as I already have that.
Cheers,
Chirpy.
I've had a reply, and they're telling me that the problem lies not with them but with their connection supplier.
Here's what was said.
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It was a problem with Genuity again, here is the description:
Original Description:
Multiple customers within the Austin, Houston, and Carrolton, TX area
may be expereincing severly degraded service.
Genuity Network Engineers are investigating.
***Note #89 09-27-2001 18:15:51 GMT Author: mwest
**CUSTOMER NOTIFICATION: RFO**
Genuity's Network Engineers report a link to a backbone aggregate router
that held BGP for downstream routers was prematurely disconnected. This
resulted in downstream router losing their BGP sessions. Network Engineers
restored the affected BGP sessions and customers resumed passing traffic
normally. There will be no further updates to this ticket.
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Our host added:
We are beginning to migrate our shared servers out to a better connection,
it will take us approximately two months to do, but it should dramatically
reduce these types of problems in the future.
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Bob C
Thanks Bob. That confirms my suspicions that Americans use a different language from English.
AHA!!! Just as I suspected!!! (that goes for what you said too Alan.
Alan,
While it is the case that there's a lot of techno-babble about, I'd urge you to read Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue (I actually wrote motherboard there, and had to correct it!!) to get an objective viewpoint on the relative merits of US English versus "Queen's" English.
A lot of the things that we think of over in the UK as being aberrations in US English actually have firmer roots than our present-day UK equivalents.
Fact of the matter, though, is that it is a splendid book, but not one you could sit down and read cover-to-cover all in one sitting.
I think it should be mandatory reading for all journalists - including sub-editors and editors - working in the UK.
I have to say I had to rethink quite a lot of my ideas (okay, I do really mean prejudices) after reading it.
Oh, and, "No, you can't borrow it". That was how I lost my last two copies!
;)
And while on the subject of Bill Bryson, I bought his Australian travel book to read on holiday and have to say I thought it was the best thing he'd written in years.
Bob C
quote:Originally posted by Alan Roberts at work:
Thanks Bob. That confirms my suspicions that Americans use a different language from English.
Thanks for all the work, Bob.
Seems faster this evening, though.
But I am accessing at almost 02:00 on Saturday morning.
John
Bob, I know the argument about the origins of the language(s). There's no doubt that many American usages of words that differ from UK usage date back to the Pilgrim times, and have changed little since then. That doesn't mean that what we speak isn't English or that American English is more true. It just confirms that the languages are different in subtle ways. No language is set in concrete, dictionaries only report usage, they don't define the language. Languages develope, inventing and adopting new words and meanings all the time. Just looking at the number of words we've got from French shows that we've even adopted some words twice, with subtly different spellings to convey slightly different meanings (e.g. wardrobe and guardrobe; both from French but in different centuries, insurance and assurance; ditto).
Ho hum, back to the day job.
'Coup-de-grace' = Lawn Mower.
Like others on here my download time has been slow.After a few e-mails to Freeserve they changed my dial up number but no change.
In a e-mail today they said to contact my telephone company and ask them to increase my "phone line gain" no idea what this does but have asked BT to do this,it takes about 48hrs to carry this out. So by Friday if there is a difference i should notice it.
Charles
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