[OZAPRS] Exetel

[Ray Wells]

All,

A bit OT but still AR and aprs related.

I'm an Exetel users and I'm generally more than happy with what I get 
for my $$$

Recently (maybe a couple of weeks) I've been unable to connect to 
f6bvp.free.fr and I put it down to a problem at the remote site. Today I 
communicated with With Bernard F6BVP and he seemed surprised.

I conducted numerous test from here with both Linux and WinXP Pro, and 
both Firefox and IE. All resulted in being unable to connect. I don't 
use a firewall on the Linux machines and it's not a Cookie issue.I 
remotely logged on to the local community radio station and was able to 
connect out to f6bvp.free.fr via their Internode account. Ok, the remote 
site is functioning.

I ran traceroute (tracert in Windows) and both Linux and Windows 
machines baulked at the same point - 
bzn-9k-sys-p.intf.routers.proxad.net (212.27.58.125). I posted the 
result of traceroute to Exetel.

I logged a fault with Exetel who want me to change my IP address and 
report back. (Exetel users get a fixed IP address which they can change 
online, without ISP intervention).

I really don't want the inconvenience of changing my IP address so I 
asked Vince VK2CVR (also an Exetel user) to try a connect to 
f6bvp.free.fr. Same result, no connection, Vince advised he's been 
having problems for about 6 weeks.

Exetel have been advised of another customer with the same problem but I 
expect they will still insist I change my IP address.

Would contributors to this list who use Exetel please try to connect to 
f6bvp.free.fr and report back to this list with either success or failure?

Ray vk2tv
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