Off subject but I need help

[Bret Busby]

On 17/07/2019, Peter <petergoggin at bigpond.com> wrote:
> My telephone and internet services have been converted to NBN. I am
> having considerable problems which Telstra seem unable to fix. The
> telephone service is unreliable, call go to voice mail and the phone
> does not ring and yet we can call out. Resetting the telstra modem fixes
> the problem for a day or so but the it comes back. Most of the time the
> internet worked normally. Now for the past few days logging onto the
> internet causes problesm.
> When I connect to the internet I get a message :
> Load cannot follow more then 20 redirections.
>   I have tried with three laptops and get the same problem , hence
> unlikely to be a laptop problem.
>
> The signal strength is good when setting up the connection but then is
> displayed as a '?'. My browser will connect to the internet but once a
> page is selected it is not always possible to follow links. It claims
> firefox has detected the server is redirecting the request in a way that
> will never complete and problem may be caused by not accepting cookies.
>   So far telstra have replaced their modem but this did not make any
> difference.
>
> I do  not understand what is going.
>
> Am I alone in having problems with the conversion to NBN.
>   I realise this is not the right list for these problems but if ubuntu
> is responsible for trying to get onto hotspots please tell me how to
> stop it.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Goggin
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It has just occurred to me - you said that you CAN connect to the
Internet, and that the problem is with the servers that you encounter.

Have you tried ping and traceroute, to find where you are being sent,
when you try to access a web site?

Can you access bom.gov.au, with a web browser?

Also, with cookies, have you tried using a web browser with the cookie
setting to save cookies for only as long as the current session?


Also, given my previous post regarding the NBN, have you tried the web
site ozspeedtest.com? If you do, you need javascript enabled, and, I
recommend using the alternate version of the test, using the Optus
mirror (I have also used the iinet mirror, as I am in a suburb of
Perth, WA, and, both gave as good results for my cellphone wifi
hotspot, and, often, better, than the NBN modem)


-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
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 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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