What the **** is going on with BSNL BB?
Had the same issue in the last week, but that had got resolved since day-before-yesterday. Strange.
kg11sgbg
Indian Railways - The Vibrant and Moving INDIA
WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whenever from within: Fedora-18/Ubuntu-12.10/openSUSE-12.3/CentOS (all GNU/Linux distros) I am running a web-browser: Google Chrome or Firefox or Konqueror; a strange thing is happenning.
I am unable to open "Flipkart", "You Tube Videos"(THE page/site is opening!!!),gmail of my own account!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, to upload any comments in TDF discussion threads????
But all these are OPENING and FUNCTIONING NORMALLY from within Windows-7 through: Firefox or Chrome or Maxthon Browser or IE.
As of now,I am writing this comment from Firefox under Windows-7.
Is BSNL an enemy to LINUX-OS ?
What the F*** is going on?
The rage of @gaurav is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED and SUPPORTED....
Whenever from within: Fedora-18/Ubuntu-12.10/openSUSE-12.3/CentOS (all GNU/Linux distros) I am running a web-browser: Google Chrome or Firefox or Konqueror; a strange thing is happenning.
I am unable to open "Flipkart", "You Tube Videos"(THE page/site is opening!!!),gmail of my own account!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, to upload any comments in TDF discussion threads????
But all these are OPENING and FUNCTIONING NORMALLY from within Windows-7 through: Firefox or Chrome or Maxthon Browser or IE.
As of now,I am writing this comment from Firefox under Windows-7.
Is BSNL an enemy to LINUX-OS ?
What the F*** is going on?
The rage of @gaurav is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED and SUPPORTED....
Umm.. that would take special software on BSNL's end to single out a particular platform. Not very likely!
Instead, check settings within the OS - perhaps browser or proxy settings have been modified somehow!?!
Flipkart & YouTube is acting up for me too. Tried changing the DNS?
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ithehappy
Human Spambot
That was it for me! Three guys came to check what was the problem I was having, and the first thing they did was opening the bsnl website. Well that loaded. Then Google.com, that loaded too! Then Yahoo, that loaded with some lag, and finally India Times, that didn't load at first two try, they kept murmuring that website always have some problems, and finally it opened. And the ever same conclusion came, which a new born knows from last life, 'everything is alright'. 'It's server problem', nothing on my end'. ****ing fine, I said.
Three idiots, one near retirement and I bet my arse on that he can't shut down PC properly, another guy, honestly looked like a construction worker, kept asking what T.V.that is, what is that, this etc...and the most knowledgeable guy, took 5 mins to create the network connection for their own modem and changed the splitter I was having, and proudly said 'that problem you were having, I fixed it'.
Awesome!
Three idiots, one near retirement and I bet my arse on that he can't shut down PC properly, another guy, honestly looked like a construction worker, kept asking what T.V.that is, what is that, this etc...and the most knowledgeable guy, took 5 mins to create the network connection for their own modem and changed the splitter I was having, and proudly said 'that problem you were having, I fixed it'.
Awesome!
sygeek
Technomancer
Hilarious! I don't even think that was unexpected.
"It's server problem", This should be the motto of BSNL.
Also, what gateway are you using? It will look something like: *i.imgur.com/SpwiGx6.png
Having the same loading issue with youtube.com for several days now. The site opens up fine, but whenever I try to open a video, the page just seems to give up...no error, nothing, just a blank page with the title being something like www.youtube.com/xxxxxxx this indicates that the site is unable to resolve properly.
Of course a tracert to youtube.com shows several time outs in the routing and pings of over 500 ms
Now talking about sheer ignorance of BSNL staff...the DGM broadband called me yesterday and enquired about the speed of my connection. I said it's horrible - then he asked me "do you have any idea whether the undersea cable cut has been restored?"
I was like - huh??
No hope with this ISP guys..seriously, but then I have no other option available in my area either
Of course a tracert to youtube.com shows several time outs in the routing and pings of over 500 ms
Code:
Tracing route to youtube.com [74.125.236.167] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 192.168.0.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 19 ms 15 ms 13 ms 117.194.64.1
4 17 ms 16 ms 15 ms 218.248.162.70
5 58 ms 59 ms 59 ms 218.248.255.74
6 478 ms 479 ms 477 ms 59.163.207.93.static.chennai.vsnl.net.in [59.163.207.93]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 484 ms 489 ms 487 ms 115.114.85.245
10 507 ms 501 ms 497 ms if-6-2.tcore2.SVW-Singapore.as6453.net [180.87.37.14]
11 483 ms 495 ms 487 ms if-2-2.tcore1.SVW-Singapore.as6453.net [180.87.12.1]
12 495 ms 497 ms 497 ms 72.14.220.134
13 * 494 ms 497 ms 66.249.95.124
14 513 ms 533 ms 517 ms 72.14.239.21
15 527 ms 529 ms 527 ms 209.85.240.145
16 527 ms 527 ms 526 ms maa03s16-in-f7.1e100.net [74.125.236.167]Now talking about sheer ignorance of BSNL staff...the DGM broadband called me yesterday and enquired about the speed of my connection. I said it's horrible - then he asked me "do you have any idea whether the undersea cable cut has been restored?"
I was like - huh??
No hope with this ISP guys..seriously, but then I have no other option available in my area either
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ithehappy
Human Spambot
@Sygeek: Attaching the pic. Underlined it. Could I change it for any betterment?
@Vignesh: Lol, I'd curse them badly if they had said that. Changed the landline to their crap phone, and some stuffs on desktop, so that they couldn't say anything nonsense. They kept looking at my router though, and I was always thinking when they'd say, hmm that router looks fishy, it is the problem, but they didn't say that ultimately!
@Vignesh: Lol, I'd curse them badly if they had said that. Changed the landline to their crap phone, and some stuffs on desktop, so that they couldn't say anything nonsense. They kept looking at my router though, and I was always thinking when they'd say, hmm that router looks fishy, it is the problem, but they didn't say that ultimately!
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You let them "touch" your PC? Your modem? I ask them to check the wire! Thats it. Tell them some bullsh1t like "I am network specialist/work in network-related company-bullcr4p, so all modem settings are fine and configured correctly and you don't need to bother...just check my line", if they want to personally sit at your desk and mess with your PC.
Run some *nix distro in a VM or something (live cd?) - they will not venture near your PC once they see its not Win XP or Win 7 (which they think are the only two OSs on earth)
You can't, BSNL assigns it. You may request them to "assign you a new port at the DSLAM" - easier said than done! With no guarantees that it would do any positive things!
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ithehappy
Human Spambot
OK, thanks Mario, for the information.
Btw guys on my router's config page there is a firewall settings, under that there are two things, outbound and inbound service, and that inbound service is by default set as 'Block always'! Screenshot attached. Which is weird, maybe that's the reason when I used to play games with my friend online they never were able to connect me, I always had to play on others created server. But if I change it could that speed up anything or this has nothing to do with browsing speed/download speed itself? My mind says it's the latter but wanna confirm with you geeks
Btw guys on my router's config page there is a firewall settings, under that there are two things, outbound and inbound service, and that inbound service is by default set as 'Block always'! Screenshot attached. Which is weird, maybe that's the reason when I used to play games with my friend online they never were able to connect me, I always had to play on others created server. But if I change it could that speed up anything or this has nothing to do with browsing speed/download speed itself? My mind says it's the latter but wanna confirm with you geeks
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OK, thanks Mario, for the information.
Btw guys on my router's config page there is a firewall settings, under that there are two things, outbound and inbound service, and that inbound service is by default set as 'Block always'! Screenshot attached. Which is weird, maybe that's the reason when I used to play games with my friend online they never were able to connect me, I always had to play on others created server. But if I change it could that speed up anything or this has nothing to do with browsing speed/download speed itself? My mind says it's the latter but wanna confirm with you geeks
Simply ask yourself - when you did used to have a "normal" BSNL connection which used to give you your expected speeds, did you have to tweak this setting? The answer would be no, which is also the answer to your current query
In layman terms, this setting is more like a customizable filter in case you wanted to filter the traffic between the web and your network.
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ithehappy
Human Spambot
Yep, that's what I thought. Getting too much dependent on you guys
PS: Btw I was seeing those 'geniuses' were testing speed via some website, probably their own, but I didn't get a chance to see it (as all three persons were blocking my monitor), what could it be?
PS: What the f***?
*www.youtube.com/watch?v=52trZBOOdBY
:O
PS: Btw I was seeing those 'geniuses' were testing speed via some website, probably their own, but I didn't get a chance to see it (as all three persons were blocking my monitor), what could it be?
PS: What the f***?
*www.youtube.com/watch?v=52trZBOOdBY
:O
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Yep, that's what I thought. Getting too much dependent on you guys
PS: Btw I was seeing those 'geniuses' were testing speed via some website, probably their own, but I didn't get a chance to see it (as all three persons were blocking my monitor), what could it be?
Some Karnataka BSNL website I think...whenever I speed test on that site, speed is always 1 ~ 2 mbps.
BSNL - Bandwidth Meter
Oh yeah? Look at the URL from which he's downloading the video!!
These guys are idiots man, I remember watching a youtube vid where this moron sped up a video recording of himself shredding on his guitar and claimed to be the fastest guitarist on the planet..You could easily spot that he had sped up his video because the timestamp on the video recording itself was changing at fast-forward speed!
At least your "hack BSNL" guy had the sense to disable comments on his video otherwise he would have received some nasty-a55 comments!
That is more of a security feature. Leave it as it is. You may need to forward your ports to host servers.OK, thanks Mario, for the information.
Btw guys on my router's config page there is a firewall settings, under that there are two things, outbound and inbound service, and that inbound service is by default set as 'Block always'! Screenshot attached. Which is weird, maybe that's the reason when I used to play games with my friend online they never were able to connect me, I always had to play on others created server. But if I change it could that speed up anything or this has nothing to do with browsing speed/download speed itself? My mind says it's the latter but wanna confirm with you geeks
He's downloading from 192.168.1.2!Yep, that's what I thought. Getting too much dependent on you guys
PS: Btw I was seeing those 'geniuses' were testing speed via some website, probably their own, but I didn't get a chance to see it (as all three persons were blocking my monitor), what could it be?
PS: What the f***?
hacking bsnl broadband upto 160Mbps download speed.wmv - YouTube
:O
Edit : Mario has already pointed that out.
every decent router has this firewall policy where all traffic initiated from outside will be blocked.what this means is if you initiate the connection then reply from outside will be allowed(e.g.launching torrent on your pc) but if connection is initiated from outside(e.g.friend trying to join your game server) it will be blocked.it has nothing to do with speed.also this rule is separate from firewall so even if you allow incoming traffic initiated from outside it will still be scanned by router firewall.
edit:& about that bsnl server speedtest:
*i.imgur.com/5wYP2XK.png
edit:& about that bsnl server speedtest:
*i.imgur.com/5wYP2XK.png
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kg11sgbg
Indian Railways - The Vibrant and Moving INDIA
Hey EVERYBODY @TDF,Friends....
I can successfully download packages(updates) & install to Fedora-18;Ubuntu-12.10,etc. Linux distros... BUT ALL THE WEB BROWSERS(within Linux distros) ARE SLUGGISH TO OPEN THE RESPECTIVE SITES...
Some sites such as: Flipkart,ebay,Youtube,etc. are NOT OPENING AT ALL.
But sites as: Facebook,Yahoo! are opening at ease?????!!!!
gmail is not opening.
In Windows no such problem is occurring, and all the sites are OPENING + RUNNING !!!!!!!!!
I've checked browser settings at all Linux distros....and no proxies are configured...it is a DIRECT connection to the internet.
I've checked my Broadband usage in: CRM which states that till today,only 4.3GB has been downloaded + uploaded(total usage)from 1st April 2013.
But my network speed from SpeedTest.net is at:
*www.speedtest.net/result/2640918875.png
From BSNL site:
WELCOME TO BSNL BROADBAND (Multiplay Network) SPEED TESTER PORTAL
Your IP Address is: 117.*.*.* Date Of Test:12-04-2013 19:43:41
Your current bandwidth reading (in Mega bits per second) is:
3.06 Mbps
(DOWNLOAD speed in kilo bytes notation is 391.44 Kilo Bytes/sec).
Retest *** Close
WEB DESIGNED BY BROADBAND NOC, BANGALORE
I am using ULD950 Plan.
Is my network HACKED somehow??????
I can successfully download packages(updates) & install to Fedora-18;Ubuntu-12.10,etc. Linux distros... BUT ALL THE WEB BROWSERS(within Linux distros) ARE SLUGGISH TO OPEN THE RESPECTIVE SITES...
Some sites such as: Flipkart,ebay,Youtube,etc. are NOT OPENING AT ALL.
But sites as: Facebook,Yahoo! are opening at ease?????!!!!
gmail is not opening.
In Windows no such problem is occurring, and all the sites are OPENING + RUNNING !!!!!!!!!
I've checked browser settings at all Linux distros....and no proxies are configured...it is a DIRECT connection to the internet.
I've checked my Broadband usage in: CRM which states that till today,only 4.3GB has been downloaded + uploaded(total usage)from 1st April 2013.
But my network speed from SpeedTest.net is at:
*www.speedtest.net/result/2640918875.png
From BSNL site:
WELCOME TO BSNL BROADBAND (Multiplay Network) SPEED TESTER PORTAL
Your IP Address is: 117.*.*.* Date Of Test:12-04-2013 19:43:41
Your current bandwidth reading (in Mega bits per second) is:
3.06 Mbps
(DOWNLOAD speed in kilo bytes notation is 391.44 Kilo Bytes/sec).
Retest *** Close
WEB DESIGNED BY BROADBAND NOC, BANGALORE
I am using ULD950 Plan.
Is my network HACKED somehow??????
bsnl usage stats are usually not accurate in the first week.anyway rest assured as no one is going to hack a bsnl connection because almost all bsnl broadband connection now-a-days use port binding in which your bsnl user account is bind to your telephone no./line so it can not be used on any other telephone no./line.