Hamster 2 *may* not be running every night.

[RichardWhitely]

Due to severe routing problems on one of Nildrams routers, hamsterserver 2 *may* not be running every night .

It all depends on whether I can get on Nildrams good router and even then that router may become b0rked when all of nildram bounce over onto it  .

[Lot]

Probably mean the same for myself and rizla then since we're both on Nildram. Let's hope they fix it properly next time.

[adslrizla]

Depends whether I can stay on tt2. It shouldn't get overloaded as the two halves of the gateway are balanced. However should I get disconnected and end up back on tt1 then all bets are off. I wish Adrian would just bin the hardware - it's had problems for weeks now.....

[mrstella]

Depends whether I can stay on tt2. It shouldn't get overloaded as the two halves of the gateway are balanced. However should I get disconnected and end up back on tt1 then all bets are off. I wish Adrian would just bin the hardware - it's had problems for weeks now.....

How can u tell what gateway u r on ???

[RichardWhitely]

Simple, open up a dos box (or command prompt box if you are using 2k or XP)

and type in at the C Prompt

C:\>tracert www.jolt.co.uk

Tracing route to clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

 1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
 2    31 ms    30 ms    32 ms  lon1-adsl1-tt2.nildram.net [195.149.20.12]

^^^^^^^^ As you can see the 2nd hop (sometimes it will be the first hop, depends on what you are using whether its a modem or router) denotes which one of Nildrams gateway's you are currently connected to.

A tracert to anywhere will do, doesn't have to be jolt.

[mrstella]

Simple, open up a dos box (or command prompt box if you are using 2k or XP)

and type in at the C Prompt

C:\>tracert www.jolt.co.uk

Tracing route to clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

 1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
 2    31 ms    30 ms    32 ms  lon1-adsl1-tt2.nildram.net [195.149.20.12]

^^^^^^^^ As you can see the 2nd hop (sometimes it will be the first hop, depends on what you are using whether its a modem or router) denotes which one of Nildrams gateway's you are currently connected to.

A tracert to anywhere will do, doesn't have to be jolt.

Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

C:\DOCUME~1\PETER>cd\

C:\>tracert www.jolt.co.uk

Tracing route to clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

 1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1
 2    21 ms    20 ms    21 ms  lon1-adsl1-tt1.nildram.net [195.14
 3    20 ms    20 ms    19 ms  lon1-8.nildram.net [195.112.4.64]
 4    21 ms    19 ms    22 ms  lon1-1.nildram.net [195.112.4.1]
 5    22 ms    20 ms    22 ms  lon1-9.nildram.net [195.149.20.109
 6    21 ms    22 ms    21 ms  jolt-gw.nildram.net [195.149.20.12
 7    22 ms    21 ms    23 ms  clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11]

Seems to be ok for me.

Regards

Peter

[RichardWhitely]

Yeah, hopefully that bit of shuffling that was carried out today (moving some of nildrams customers onto tt2) has easied it a little. However its doubtful that will stay like that unfortunately!