Majestic-12

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:37 pm

OK then another distributed web crawling project, very user configurable, please join in and help

Majestic-12

It runs fine here with DIMES, Red Lib & BOINC, only uses some CPU for a few mins every so often when it is archiving the results to be uploaded.

Works on most platforms is using Windows download the Zip file I had problems with the Installer version couldn't get it to install

Create an account through the client, then once created sign up to UK BOINC Team through this link log-in then go to the team pages

Also set your country through the link above England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or UK

Only suitable for people with an unlimited Internet connection as uses lots of bandwidth.

Can set profiles for different times of the day, to optimize your experience of using MJ-12 as well as your computer for day to day activities

Any takers to come and join me with this project?

A manual here on how to tweak it

Any Questions either use there forums or just ask here I will help in any way I can

Here are our team stats, plenty of stats available from the projects and also from Free-DC

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:10 pm

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:
Only suitable for people with an unlimited Internet connection as uses lots of bandwidth.

Well that will knock a lot of people out including me!

Just had a quick scan to see what sort of bandwidth we're talking here - saw a mention of 30 gigs which is a helluva lot especially as I'm capped at 2 gig! Ho hum....

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:12 pm

That's why I mentioned it as I know some of you will have crappy providers with Caps on the bandwidth

Thank God for unlimited broadband

:lol:

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:13 am

The team membership has now doubled.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:15 am

Martle wrote:The team membership has now doubled.

Hoorah well done if you just use the standard settings all should work ok, mines running fine out of the box

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:07 am

Martle your showing on the stats now, will start rising through the teams a bit more quickly with two of us at it.

Any one else with unmetered broadband want to give it a shot

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:01 pm

Just signing up but are there any downloadable stats for this?

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:03 pm

Dazza wrote:Just signing up but are there any downloadable stats for this?

Not that I have been able to find no

Ram Raider · Post by **Ram Raider** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:52 pm

I've joined too or at least I think I have. The team page lists me as a member but my options page does not.

Also if you click my nickname (or Dazza's), it claims the user id does not exist which was a bit confusing at first.

Hopefully it will sort itself out next time the stats are updated.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:53 pm

Probally just a time delay notcied that a few mins ago when I clicked your links, next upload should be fine

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:23 pm

Is this normal?

[02/10/2006 17:29:21] Failed inside AsyncBeginGetResponse due to: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Majestic12.WebCrawler.AsyncBeginGetResponseStream(IAsyncResult oAR)
[02/10/2006 17:32:24] SaveWorkerData can't operate on oItem that is null!
[02/10/2006 17:32:24] Worker #0 failed to save its data. Original BID=1 Original URL=http://www.cis.es/cis/opencms/CA/1_encu ... estra=3236
[02/10/2006 17:39:31] SaveWorkerData can't operate on oItem that is null!
[02/10/2006 17:39:31] Worker #0 failed to save its data. Original BID=1 Original URL=http://www.cis.es/cis/opencms/CA/1_encu ... uestra=216
[02/10/2006 17:44:04] SaveWorkerData can't operate on oItem that is null!
[02/10/2006 17:44:04] Worker #0 failed to save its data. Original BID=1 Original URL=http://www.cis.es/cis/opencms/CA/1_encu ... uestra=375
[02/10/2006 17:46:06] SaveWorkerData can't operate on oItem that is null!
[02/10/2006 17:46:06] Worker #0 failed to save its data. Original BID=1 Original URL=http://www.cis.es/cis/opencms/CA/1_encu ... uestra=376
[02/10/2006 17:55:14] SaveWorkerData can't operate on oItem that is null!
[02/10/2006 17:55:14] Worker #0 failed to save its data. Original BID=1 Original URL=http://www.cis.es/cis/opencms/CA/1_encu ... uestra=379

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:27 pm

Ignore your logs all you need to look at is on the status page if you have successful crawls they will show up the number of them there, inclusding any failed, timed out etc etc

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:50 pm

Ram Raider is showing up fine now, don't see Dazza as yet have you created an account

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:11 pm

I think I created an account.
It's a difficult to use website!

Just trying to find a half decent team to join thats all.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:11 pm

You create an account through the client

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:19 pm

yepp, done that.
If I click update on the status page I get a busy error.

I'm not very good at this one.

Do I need to update b4 I turn off cus I had 8000 on the total crawled & then had to re-boot. When it came back up it was at 0 again

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:21 pm

When you want to shut down open up the client and press exit it will then attempt to shut the client down so all the data is not lost.

Best off keeping it going for a bit yet and let it upload a few times that way it will register you on the stats

Edit: I assume your user name will be Dazza

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:24 pm

It says I am part of the team!

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:24 pm

Dazza wrote:It says I am part of the team!

Yep it does now just waiting for your stats to update now so that the info can be seen

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:26 pm

My machine is set to shut itself down - will this be a problem?

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:27 pm

Don't know don't switch my computer off, you will just have to wait and see what happens if it shuts down correctly it will/should save the information until you switch back on again

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:00 pm

Wouldn't the safest option be 'Hiberanate' instead of 'shutdown'?

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:25 pm

Yes but the DVD writing stuff don't say.... Hibernate when done!
Apart from that If I do hibernate then sometimes my BOINC stuff does not recover and it errors but if I shutdown it picks up near where it was.

I can't explain that one.

Anyway is the server accepting updates cus after 105 mins of work & 23000 URL's crawled I can still not update - just get a busy Try later message!

I'm gonna give it another 15 mins and give up i reckon

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:27 pm

It uploads on its own you don't do it

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:28 pm

Oh, how often?

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:29 pm

When its ready to do so it archives/compresses the results then sends them back

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:41 pm

Oh, wait a mo

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:38 pm

Dazza wrote:Just trying to find a half decent team to join thats all.

I see you chose the right team to join.

:roll:

You're showing up fine and dandy now.

PS If I can run this thang without screwing up, it should be a doddle for you. :lol:

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:43 pm

I concur all is showing up for you now as well, with all this DIMES stuff up in the air at the moment its a great chance to get ahead on this project.

Now if only we had 100 Mb connections here in the UK, imagine how many links you could crawl on that

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:54 pm

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:I concur all is showing up for you now as well, with all this DIMES stuff up in the air at the moment its a great chance to get ahead on this project.

I've been pestering the guys on the forum about DIMES and the results are just beginning to trickle through again. I don't assume for a moment that my input had anything to do with it but I'm just kidding myself that I must have irritated them so much, they just wanted to get rid of me. :P

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:52 pm

Will be in top 50 within the next 7 days, come on you lot must be some more people with a high bandwidth

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:06 pm

Created a signature logo for Majestic-12 users.

http://www.signature.ukboincteam.com/si ... serid>.gif

where <userid> is your userid!!

So my link is
http://www.signature.ukboincteam.com/si ... c/1305.gif

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:53 pm

Thanks Dazza. :P

More Hobnobs coming your way .....

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 6:49 pm

I've had to make the signature smaller to accomodate forum space so the new one does not show the last few days processing info

if you want one of those then it's

http://signature.ukboincteam.com/sigs/m ... serid>.gif

I have also made the display dynamic (with some clever code) so I don't have to keep creating the 800 graphics every few hours, only draw back is that the pig keeps changing everytime you visit a page.

I am only "allowed" to grab the data once every 24 hours but I am hoping this restriction can be lifted.

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:03 pm

50th ( a bit ahead of your prediction)!

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:07 pm

Well someone has upped there game aint they

Were in the top 12 for the day at position number 9

Some serious crawling going on at the moment between the 4 members we have

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:40 pm

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Well someone has upped there game aint they

I think Dazza has converted his agent to Nuclear power. What's the secret for your high numbers? :roll:

Greenways Court · Post by **Greenways Court** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:06 pm

I think i've just created an account too !

Although when i click on the update button i keep getting a DNet error - busy try later?

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:11 pm

Greenways Court wrote:I think i've just created an account too !

Although when i click on the update button i keep getting a DNet error - busy try later?

As long as eveything is working and your agent is processing the buckets, I wouldn't worry about it.

A great big warm welcome to our cosy little team. :D

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:20 pm

Update doesn't do anything the program uploads & downloads work on its own you just set your preferences and away you go.

Have set myself some profiles for different times of the day so while I'm at work it works more intensely and when I'm at home and want to use it it runs a bit slower for 5 hrs

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:36 pm

Greenways Court joins and now we are upto 47th!

UBT - PiezPiedPy · Post by **UBT - PiezPiedPy** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:59 pm

Seems a bit commercial to me - I'm gona leave it to Dimes

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:56 pm

UBT - PiezPiedPy wrote:Seems a bit commercial to me - I'm gona leave it to Dimes

DIMES is dead for the moment, at least this one is alive & kicking

UBT - PiezPiedPy · Post by **UBT - PiezPiedPy** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:09 pm

Dimes is Still working on my computer - No probs apart from a little glitch earlier this week

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:12 pm

UBT - PiezPiedPy wrote:Dimes is Still working on my computer - No probs apart from a little glitch earlier this week

Its still working but look at the stats there more or less non exsitent they are not crediting at all, so I'm not doing as much DIMES for now no point doing it when I get no reward for it

UBT - PiezPiedPy · Post by **UBT - PiezPiedPy** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:19 pm

I'm hoping there caching credits done

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:39 pm

I think you spoke too soon.

I can't get any stats from majestic and I just cleared everything down as well!!!

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:48 pm

A bit of server downtime or an error

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:46 am

UBT - Simon has joined us (no credit yet) so come on whos next

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:58 am

Fantastic news. :lol:

Welcome UBT Simon to our expanding team. :D

UBT - Simon · Post by **UBT - Simon** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 1:25 pm

Thanks guys apparently i did 20,000 URLs during the night. Just got to make sure to save some badwidth for streaming music

Hopefully I'll do much better with the crawling today

since i did join late in the day.

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:41 pm

Wonder if anyone can enlighten me.

I've got 3 boxes all networked in through a router and obviously all sharing the same network connection. At the moment I'm running this baby on just one machine and was wondering what would happen if I was to also run it on all 3 machines.

Would the shared network connection be able to cope or would they all share a 33% share of the bandwidth therefore the same share of results? Is there any advantage in doing this?

I can't seem to find any answers on the Majestic forum. :?:

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:43 pm

AS your on one connection I guess the 3 clients would battle each other for bandwidth, I don't find you will get anything additional out of using 3 comps instead of just one as its all to do with bandwidth.

I suppose you could always give it a try

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:52 pm

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:AS your on one connection I guess the 3 clients would battle each other for bandwidth, I don't find you will get anything additional out of using 3 comps instead of just one as its all to do with bandwidth.

I suppose you could always give it a try

Yea that's what I thought. :roll:

I'll just experiment in tweaking the agent for max efficiency. As you've been doing this longer me and you do seem to get higher totals, is there anything you can pass on in the way of tweaks?

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:54 pm

I just put up the number of workes by 5 left it for a hour to make sure it was working fine and then just upped it slightly each time to make sure all is fine also upped the number of buckets

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:56 pm

Allow it to use all of the connection speed!

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:02 pm

Dazza wrote:Allow it to use all of the connection speed!

Just realised I had not done that, must be how you passed me so quickly

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:04 pm

D'OH my secret is out.

Only doing it at this speed for today and then it'll get a very small amount of band width.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:06 pm

Also people if you want to do your bit for England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland (if there is an option for that one), then log into your profile through the link on the 1st post and alter your country.

Martle is Wales
Dazza & me are England the rest of you are UK for now

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:13 pm

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Martle is Wales

My secret is out. :roll:

With regards to maxing out this thing, I've taken everything on board and we'll see what happens. 8)

Thanx

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:47 pm

Over 10,000,000 urls!!

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:54 pm

Dazza wrote:Over 10,000,000 urls!!

Lets hope they roll in quicker now as people tweak there settings :wav:

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:37 pm

My client says it is in "starvation" mode :?:

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:40 pm

Dazza wrote:My client says it is in "starvation" mode :?:

Try here may be of use

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:23 am

Martle what have you done to get your URL's so high, that's a massive increase to before

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:38 pm

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Martle what have you done to get your URL's so high, that's a massive increase to before

I just took it nice and easy and increased my crawlers to a max level when I stopped getting errors and then increased my buckets ever so slowly. After setting these minor changes I let it run for a couple of hours to see if there was any improvement.

I wish I could tell you the secret but it's very machine specific and it's just a case of trial and error.

I think the Welsh Dragon has alot to do with my increase:lol:

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:44 pm

Will up mine again when I get home, can't be beaten by Wales

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:54 pm

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Will up mine again when I get home, can't be beaten by Wales

Well let me catch up with you a little bit more. :lol:

The Welsh are a coming. :twisted:

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 6:42 pm

OK massively upped the workers will see what happens next

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:04 pm

To all those out there with an unrestricted connection, come and join our team and you too could experience the wonderful world of Majestic tweaking. Our team is quickly rising through the ranks (Cue - Halifax Lad :roll: ).

Join today and Dazza will throw in a neat stats sig - any colour you like (as long as it's black) with a picture of your favourite animal (as long as it's a pig).

Don't delay a moment longer as this offer will end very soon.

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:29 pm

Join today and Dazza will throw in a neat stats sig - any colour you like (as long as it's black) with a picture of your favourite animal (as long as it's a pig).

Black, yes, Pig, no.

It can be any picture you like, just so long as it's quite small!!

Looky here

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:30 pm

And I was gonna keep that quiet

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:19 am

Lowered my mega high settings now was making my computer unusable

UBT - Simon · Post by **UBT - Simon** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:26 am

For some reason my pc keeps getting knocked offline and i suspect its MJ12

therefore i've put the node on migrate (finshing off the crawling then stop) if/when i figure out whats going on then i'll come back

oh well fun while it lasted, least i did my part for the project.

Simon

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:34 am

Sorry to here about that Simon.

Get yourself sorted and maybe you may find that it's nothing to do with Majestic.

At least NetDimes has appeared to be running up to full speed again.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:11 pm

Well done all currently in 32nd place and about to get 20 Million URL's crawled, carry on the good work.

Any one else want to join us to help out on MJ-12, hopefully people with problems like Simon will be able to set it to crawl less URL's and still help the total rise

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:52 pm

Just taken a screenie of our rise through the ranks:

Onwards and upwards. :D

Anyone else want to join us in our surge. :!: :?: :roll:

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:15 pm

Martle,

Have you changed from been in Wales to UK now?

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:31 pm

Thought I would catch you up quicker if I wore a disguise.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:32 pm

Martle wrote:Thought I would catch you up quicker if I wore a disguise.

Nah will never happen its odd because the stats for Wales are not available any more I could have sworn they were there the other day but now its just England, Scotland, Ireland, UK

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:43 pm

I think you'll find that it will turn back to Wales on the next stats update. I think I must be the only cruncher for Wales and was feeling a bit lonely.

and as for the other matter .....

Let's just see. :lol:

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:19 am

I'm Welsh again now and as I thought, I'm the only person crunching for this country.

I have so much power that I can make a whole country disappear with just one click of the mouse. :twisted:

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:18 am

Martle wrote:I'm Welsh again now and as I thought, I'm the only person crunching for this country.

I have so much power that I can make a whole country disappear with just one click of the mouse. :twisted:

Can't have that much power in your one horse country :evil: :twisted:

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:14 pm

Wish you could make Wales disappear with just the click of the mouse!!

;)

Anyway isn't Wales a principality and not a "real" country

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:25 pm

You can go right off some people. :bootyshake:

Post by **UBT - Mikee** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:40 pm

It is a country, but under occupation by the English and has been for several hundred years.

(I wrote a load of 'Welsh Nationalist' stuff after that but realised that it was way off subject, probably politically incorrect and would might have provoked a 'flaming' session so scrubbed it.)

Just need to borrow Martles' flag!

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:03 pm

That Dragon has now overtaken me

We are also in the top 30 now, fresh blood is needed now to keep us going from strength to strength

RodEllery · Post by **RodEllery** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:33 am

JUst joined, Will leave on default settings for now, see how it goes, start upping things in morning.

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:56 am

RodEllery wrote:JUst joined, Will leave on default settings for now, see how it goes, start upping things in morning.

Nice one Rod! :lol:

Looking forward to seeing you on the stats.

RodEllery · Post by **RodEllery** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:38 am

Now appeared in stats. Overnight run seemed ok.

Now managed to tweak it to do 40,000 url's an hour!.

It seemed to be using more bandwidth than I thought I had so I upped the limits a bit and at times downloads are now running at 2400Kbits!

Most confusing.

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:06 am

I've been tinkering around with a wireless router and have been having endless problems with the connection just ditching me out without warning. I've twiddled and tweaked and put the culprit down to Majestic. It's a big shame as I was really getting into this project.

So it with is great regret that I'm going to have to temporarily give this baby up until I find the cause.

So for the moment, the Dragon's going to have to bow out. :dontknow:

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:40 am

I am getting a wireless router today, with any luck it will work fine its pretty advanced but I will soon find out tonight what happens

UBT - Rick Horn · Post by **UBT - Rick Horn** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:03 am

UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:I am getting a wireless router today, with any luck it will work fine its pretty advanced but I will soon find out tonight what happens

I got one a couple of months ago. Came free with a new ISP. It was dead easy to set up, only gripe was the transmission range isn`t very good.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:04 pm

I have slowed down on MJ-12 now so I can do DepSpid

UBT - JohnR · Post by **UBT - JohnR** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:07 pm

I have a wireless router that won't stay connected to my Tiscali account without help.
I have to tell my email program to check every 4 minutes or the line is dropped (5 minutes is too long).
I always thought that it was Tiscali at fault as they supply usb modems that perhaps poll the system on a routine basis, where a router may just sit and wait, but that is just a my guess.

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:08 pm

Ahh, don't get me started on routers :evil:
I had a Belkin 4 port/wireless router that had 2 PCs wired into it and 2 laptops on wireless.
It worked fine for months, then all of a sudden the wired ports caused the ADSL connection to recycle.
Remove the 2 PCs cables and it would stay up forever but put em back in and it'd recycle.
I did initially put USB wireless on the 2 PCs but ended up buying a Netgear equivalent and everythings been fine since.
Never did find the reason for it.

UBT - JohnR · Post by **UBT - JohnR** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:12 pm

Belkin :roll: how did you guess

Temujin · Post by **Temujin** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:43 pm

UBT - JohnR wrote:Belkin :roll: how did you guess

at least the wireless will work :D

Martle · Post by **Martle** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:12 am

While we're on the subject of wireless routers, if you go up a bit you'll find my thread with my problems concerning my newly installed Netgear wireless. While I was setting it up (and had it hard wired) I was having big probs with it ditching me out and I blamed Majestic 12.

I don't think that was the cause. I noticed that one of my boxes was allocated a different IP for both wireless and wired connection and during the setup, I was getting all sorts of probs with conflicting IP's. Now that I've disconnected it and it's purely on wireless, it seems to be stable now. The biggest headache was the effect that it was having on my BOINC Manager as it was seeing any communication from my other boxes as a security threat.

It all seems to be sorted out now except that the minute I try to change the Network CSS or apply any sort of encryption (WEP), it just stops working and I have to hard wire it again to regain a connection. So at the moment I'm running a completely open network that's probably being used by all my neighbours. :roll:

I'll sort it one day no doubt. 8)

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:32 pm

right got MJ-12 back up & running, can't recall why I took it off in the 1st place

So it will prob take me a few days to tweak the settings to the right ones

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