Comments on: One Tree Healer Kara http://www.parttimedruid.com/2008/05/21/one-tree-healer-kara/ Just another WordPress site Sat, 25 Dec 2010 07:05:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Talisker http://www.parttimedruid.com/2008/05/21/one-tree-healer-kara/#comment-239 Talisker Wed, 21 May 2008 17:16:59 +0000 http://parttimedruid.com/?p=71#comment-239 I have also been completely screwed by the AT&T disconnect bug, which started about a week or two ago. I switched to AT&T U-Verse from Time Warner about six weeks ago, and all was fine, until the more and more frequent disconnects. Finally, I couldn't stay logged longer than a minute, and streaming video was getting hung up, as if I'd lost the connection. I had the AT&T guy come over, and we checked the exterior line, the modem, tested for local interference, took down the wireless modem firewall, changed security from 128 bit to 64 bit, designated the Blizzard ports used for downloading patches - you name it, we tried it, it didn't matter; we couldn't get it solved. But when I plugged in a cable from the router, the disconnects disappeared. It had to be the wireless. Are you using the wireless modem/router? So we were all ready to blame the device, EXCEPT - my laptop was doing fine. No disconnects. So we wondered if it was a software issue? I disabled NoScript on Firefox, wondering if it was interfering with the server pinging from the game. Except I was getting hung up on streaming video, too. As you might expect, no result. Was it a virus? I have a Mac, so this is a long shot; virus scan yielded nothing. So, is the wireless hardware in my computer going bad? I did recently replace the logic board - perhaps something got messed up in the process (the machine is 2 1/2 years old). However, now that I hear you were having the problem, I really wonder. Is it just AT&T wireless sucks? I never cancelled the Time Warner cable, figuring I might end up going back. It may very well be that AT&T just sucks. I have also been completely screwed by the AT&T disconnect bug, which started about a week or two ago. I switched to AT&T U-Verse from Time Warner about six weeks ago, and all was fine, until the more and more frequent disconnects. Finally, I couldn’t stay logged longer than a minute, and streaming video was getting hung up, as if I’d lost the connection.

I had the AT&T guy come over, and we checked the exterior line, the modem, tested for local interference, took down the wireless modem firewall, changed security from 128 bit to 64 bit, designated the Blizzard ports used for downloading patches – you name it, we tried it, it didn’t matter; we couldn’t get it solved.

But when I plugged in a cable from the router, the disconnects disappeared. It had to be the wireless. Are you using the wireless modem/router?

So we were all ready to blame the device, EXCEPT – my laptop was doing fine. No disconnects. So we wondered if it was a software issue? I disabled NoScript on Firefox, wondering if it was interfering with the server pinging from the game. Except I was getting hung up on streaming video, too. As you might expect, no result. Was it a virus? I have a Mac, so this is a long shot; virus scan yielded nothing.

So, is the wireless hardware in my computer going bad? I did recently replace the logic board – perhaps something got messed up in the process (the machine is 2 1/2 years old). However, now that I hear you were having the problem, I really wonder. Is it just AT&T wireless sucks?

I never cancelled the Time Warner cable, figuring I might end up going back. It may very well be that AT&T just sucks.

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