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Yes, you heard it right Super Crap Internet is working furiously against further development of www.conanstevens.com.
Wi-Fi signals that mysteriously waver and drop out, DNS that cannot resolve www.google.com, unable to lease IP addresses and the ever favourite cannot find network...
Super Crap Internet is a joint initiative from D-link wireless, True ISP and Microsoft (we didn't use DOS TCP/IP code honestly).
The
Super Crap Internet Service Provider - True Move - has major issues with resolving domain names, sometimes you have to refresh 7 or 8 times and run a DNSFlush to find the www.Google.com website - even though it runs of hundreds of servers worldwide. A programmer friend of mine resolved this issue by telling his router to resolve DNS through www.openDNS.org (or possibly www.openDNS.com). Now he has no troubles like this at all. Amazing how a large national ISP cannot get DNS to work, considering it is the cornerstone of their business (web browsing).
Second partner in
Super Crap Internet is my shiny new D-Link USB wireless network card (I do not have a built in wireless as parts were out of stock when I purchased my ECS laptop). Previously I had a no name Chinese USB wireless thinga-ma-jig which worked wonderfully. I could pick up wireless networks from all across the city, I could actually connect to a hotel that was a good 500 meters away. Now my shiny new D-link cannot even register the other networks let alone connect to them. So much for using Brand Name hardware for quality.
A quick search should give plenty of info on why the MS implementation of TCP/IP sucks. I mean to reboot after a IP address change is so stone age (Windows 3.11 anyone?). To claim they have not used DOS code in Win2K-SP4 or WinXP is ludicrous - whatever happened to the nice stable stack that was with Win2K-SP1? It never needed a reboot - maybe it used the NT code??? Thanks Microsux for your contribution to
Super Crap Internet.
Anyway expect to see a bunch of additions to the site soon as I will be getting decent reliable internet again within the next week.
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