Well, I've come home and tried a few things with the Netgear modem with
no success.

I managed to get a loan of an internal Nokia modem (or clone) and this
gives me a little more information but suffers from the same problem; I
setup the PPPoA connection but the authentication timesout. No matter
what username and password I use (my Orcon account, the jetstreamgames
realm) the authentication process timesout. I never get incorrect
username/password.

All I can do now is wait for the Telecom man....

GB

leety@ihug.co.nz wrote:

>>I had issues on thursday night and rang orcon friday
>>morning and basically they couldn't see me attempting to
>>authenticate, which was odd.
>>
>>I went in and checked my adsl password etc, effectively
>>changed nothing, retried a few times to logon and then I
>>was away. Maybe retrying login a few times might allow
>>people to connect and get around the issue (if it still
>>exits?)
>>
>>
>
>I had/am having (haven't checked today) a similar problem
>since Thursday with Orcon UBS. On Thursday, could not log on
>(PPP connection could not be established). The FastADSL log
>on (for Jetstream not UBS) still worked, not sure why since
>it's been over one billing date since I got UBS so they
>should have cancelled my normal Jetstream account by now.
>However, obviously I did not dare use it for long in case
>Telecom decide to use this as an excuse to claim I was still
>using Jetstream, just to check Orcon page and e-mails.
>Friday it was okay again except it was slow. Further testing
>revealed it appeared I had been limited to 64k despite the
>fact I was using UBS. A bit miffed, I eventually tried
>restarting the modem only to find I could not log on with my
>UBS log on again!. FastADSL was still working (and limited
>to 64k of course). To my knowledge, it has never managed to
>log on to UBS since then.
>
>I have e-mailed Orcon of course.
>
>It is possible I have been having mini authentication
>outages over the past week or two since there have been
>connection problems according to a flatmate. Also, the Dslam
>prevents my modem from connecting at higher than 320/120k
>which I had thought meant I'm on UBS not i-UBS but not so
>sure if this is true now...
>
>P.S. I had a similar problem last time whereby my speed was
>limited to 64k. E-mailed Orcon about it, never got a reply
>but it fixed itself.
>
>P.P.S. I have a Nokia m1122
>
>

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