Close powerbook and Internet disconnects
I went to the energy saving settings and even chose never go to sleep for hard drive or display and still when I close it it kills applications that are connected via FW and internet. Any ideas?
The only setting you need to change to stop your computer from sleeping is "Put the computer to sleepwhen it is inactive for:" within Energy Saver. You just have to move the slider to the Never position. That's it.
When you close the lid the PowerBook will sleep. There is NOTHING you can do about that.
PS If you want to close the lid and not want you PowerBook to sleep you can prop it open a bit. As long as the latch doesn't close it won't sleep. I use a simple old eraser to do this on my PowerBook Titanium which I currently use as a server.
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Noisy line and internet disconnecting
Hi
Last year, I had a problem with the phone cable outside the house. When it rained, it caused noise on the line and the internet would disconnect often. It turned out that the outside line was really old and needed replaced, which eventually happened after a couple of engineer visits.
Everything has been going fine, but now I seem to have the same problem again. The noise on the line started last night and today the broadband light on the hub has been turning orange.
I've tried all the usual - I've changed the filters as I have three spare ones, I've tried plugging only the phone into the wall, even via the test socket. I thought maybe it could be an extension cable, so I tried plugging the phone and router directly into the wall.
The noise seems to come and go, just like last year, which makes it harder to pin point what's wrong. At one point I thought I'd sorted the problem and I thought it was the extension cable because the noise disappeared - but then it came back again!
We have had a lot of rain over the weekend, but I think it's strange that it's affected the new line like it did with the old one, unless it's been damaged?? I'm wondering if it's actually the hub itself? It's the black homehub 2 that I have.
I've been at this all morning and I really don't want to call BT because I hate speaking to someone who doesn't understand a word I say and vice versa!
Any suggestions?ADSL line status
Connection information
Line state
Connected
Connection time
0 days, 0:03:17
Downstream
8,128 Kbps
Upstream
448 Kbps
ADSL settings
VPI/VCI
0/38
Type
PPPoA
Modulation
ITU-T G.992.1
Latency type
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up)
12.4 dB / 23.0 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up)
15.0 dB / 8.5 dB
Output power (Down/Up)
19.8 dBm / 12.1 dBm
Loss of Framing (Local)
229
Loss of Signal (Local)
171
Loss of Power (Local)
0
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CRC Errors (Down/Up)
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HEC Errors (Down/Up)
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Weird Continuous Ringtone and Internet Disconnects
We had a new phone line activated towards the end of February. An engineer visited our local exchange for set up and everything was tested working perfectly.
We then ordered broadband with O2. When the broadband was activated (early March) our phone no longer had a dial tone and we could no longer receive or make calls….Strangely though the Internet worked perfectly.
We reported the issue to BT who ran a line check and identified a problem with the exchange box.
An engineer was arranged to visit our local exchanged within a couple of days and fix the problem. 24 hours after reporting the fault the phone line started working again prior to the engineering visiting the exchange. We called BT to clear the issue and cancel the engineer visit.
We have noticed since the phone line has started working again, we now have a continuous ring tone and at the same time the internet drops out then reconnects.
So far we have done the following to identify the problem with our equipment.
Tried 3 different phones (on their own with no filter our router connected) in the test socket and we still get a continuous ring tone. Used 2 routers (O2’s and our own netgear) along with 3 different ADSL filters and the internet will still drop out when we receive a call.
I am convinced there is still an issue with the exchange as it was never properly investigated when we first reported the issue.
We have spoken to the foreign call centre that run the line checks, unfortunately as we were cut off during the call we had to call back and therefore were dealing with two support agents at the same time. One of the support agents ran a line check when the landline was in use so it has reported a fault with our equipment which according to the first agent, it did not.
The problem is getting a bit tiresome now and we just want a working phone line without these niggles. The foreign call centre seems only capable of running a line check and our particular problem seems quite unique. Has anyone else has this issue or is there a direct number for a UK based support team who can help deal with the complexity of our case?
Thank you for reading.This is simply a customer to customer support forum, I have no involvement with BT or Openreach any more, having retired a couple of years ago.
My diagram shows the points that would normally be checked for dial-tone, its actually quite simple for the Openreach technician to identify where the problem is, by simply using a portable phone.
If it proves to be a lack of dial-tone from the BT Exchange equipment, then the Openreach technician can move your line to another piece of equipment, then leave it for BT Wholesale to sort out.
If the dial-tone is missing after it comes out of O2s broadband equipment, then its possible for Openreach, with the assistance of O2, to move both ends to a different piece of O2 equipment.
If the fault is past that point, then Openreach are still responsible, right up to the master socket in your house.
As you can see, BT retail are only concerned with the exchange equipment. Their line test system will test from that point onwards. So if there is a disconnection in the exchange, it will indicate it during the line test.
Anything after that point, has to be dealt with by Openreach, who can be called by your ISP or BT.
As the problem occurred after you had the broadband installed, it would tend to indicate a disconnection in that area.
It could be something simple, like a broken wire, or unsoldered connection.
I am sure it will be resolved.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones. -
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Before I installed Lion I simply hit any key on the keyboard or clicked the mouse...
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Oh well...
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Sharing internet connection with powerbook and nintendo wii through airport
i have been trying to share my internet connection from my imac to my powerbook and nintendo wii. i've been unable to accomplish neither. i've opened the sharing preferences, chosen "share your connection from built in ethernet" which is how my imac is connected to the internet, and then chosen "to computers using airport". if i then set my airport options to automatic channel, encryption using 40 bit wep and set a 5 character password as it says if you "plan to share your internet connection with non-apple computers", (and then turn internet sharing on) shouldn't i be able to connect either/both my powerbook and my nintendo wii? or is it necessary to have some other piece of hardware or go through some other steps?
thanks in advance for any help.I got a macbook for college and I had the same problem with connecting my Wii to the macbook's connection. But lo and behold, the internet's a wonderful place! I tried this out (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070514152251515) and it worked! I'm not sure about the powerbook bit though, sorry. Hope it works for you too.
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What Apple wants from his customers?
1) I've paid my iPhone 4S 900 euros;
2) I'm used to buy music and apps from iTunes store;
3) my iCloud space costs 32 euros per year
and, like me, millions of customers around the world!
and Apple does not allow me (and many others) to use the internet traffic for which I (we) pay my (our) provider, that's not among those that directly sell iPhone??? Is this your idea of a really unblocked device as you falsely declsre from the pages of Apple online store ?!? Shame on you!
If I had know that the 7.1 led to this I'd never updated my iPhone. No one (Apple and the sites that live because of her) told about this issue in their enthusiastic comments on the new, updated version, of iOS. Shame on you!
This would claim a class action against such a behaviour!
I'm disgusted
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Hello,
Brother please follow these steps
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http://blogs.avg.com/community/avg-feedback-update-week-44/
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