Codetel DSL problems

[MrMike]

Yesterday was a pretty damn horrible day for internet connectivity in Santiago.

Oddly, the rain seems to have a big effect. Codetel internet does not seem to work very well when it is raining. Maybe it gets depressed.

[DunHill]

Intensive use of "teepie" does not make the cabeling more thrustfull.
Digital signal doen't like water, so a cable fixed with multiple "teepies" is like a hose full with holes.

When it rains the signal follows , through the water, the shortest way from 1 wire to another, and creating a nice resistance/shortcut.
And the way they normally put their "teepie" around a wire is NOT waterproof, just to cover the view of the fixed/open cable

Don't try to explain this to your local technician, he will not believe you that cables carrieng digital signals cannot be fixed by using "teepies".

Before him his father - grandfather - friends - neighbours, they all fixed their cables using a "teepie", so there is (in his opinion) nothing wrong with that.

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[DunHill]

Originally Posted by james

e-mail is also suffering. I have had to "Send" sometimes 5 or 6 times before it was actually accepted by Codetels' server and finally sent. This could take anywhere from 4 to 15 minutes. Today has been worse than some of the other 'Bad days" recently.

The codetel mailserver is also the codetel DNS server and during this thread we almost all know that that service is crappy and unreliable
Codetel mail(dns)servers are infected by virusses and commonly blacklisted as "spam source"
The whole IP space of codetel is (as a lot of S-American IP space) normally blacklisted or on the edge of that.

The best advice is use external emailservices

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[Squat]

Originally Posted by MrMike

Yesterday was a pretty damn horrible day for internet connectivity in Santiago.

That's the proof that it's a localized problem, around Santiago and the Puerto Plata province...
Yesterday was as fast as usual in Las Terrenas...
(disclaimer: I don't write such posts to peess other readers off... I think it might help to pinpoint the problem.)

[DunHill]

Old Juan Dolio as well, 20% packetloss after it started to rain a little bit softly at 07:00
A reset st 08:00 and we were clear again, now with the sun gone and more and more clouds are coming in we have losses between 5 and 35% (SNR dropped from 8.0 to 0.5)

[DunHill]

If you want to have more info why your email of codetel does not work or why some servers block your access goto

UCEPROTECT®-Network - Spam Database Query
Codetel is ASN 6400

and this is just one of the blacklists

[adrianb]

Originally Posted by Squat

That's the proof that it's a localized problem, around Santiago and the Puerto Plata province...
Yesterday was as fast as usual in Las Terrenas...
(disclaimer: I don't write such posts to peess other readers off... I think it might help to pinpoint the problem.)

Interesting. You couldn't have not noticed it yesterday; our connectivity in Santiago was absolutely terrible. Did people on the north coast also have lots of problems yesterday afternoon/evening?

Adrian

[leehall]

Connectivity in the Sosua are was horrible. Strangely, did not seem to effect my blackberry connection. Much better this morning.

[Conchman]

Yesterday and a few days before that my DSL Flash was either completely off or only certain websites worked. At one time, I could use Pokerstars.com but nothing else. Guess they wanted me to gamble. I played a low stakes tournament in case of a crash and won the damn thing! At least it paid for Flash for the month.

[Tor]

Much better in Sosua today. Yesterday was terrible.