# Is this my DSL provider's fault, or is it my computer?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-my-dsl-providers-fault-or-is-it-my-computer/359887>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 8, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-my-dsl-providers-fault-or-is-it-my-computer/359887 "2006-06-08T14:11:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-my-dsl-providers-fault-or-is-it-my-computer/359887/21 "2006-06-09T19:03:59Z")

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Problem solved! As suspected by most of you in this thread, winsock was not the problem. In fact, nothing related to my computer was the problem. The problem was a malfunctioning “pair” up the street. Rerouting us to a different pair solved it immediately and we are now back online with full browsing ability.

Thank god. I felt like I was detached from my brain.

Thanks to everybody in this thread for advice and general support. It helped a lot to be able to tell the tech that I’d already done a bunch of troubleshooting stuff (it kept it from being a 5-hour tech support call, for one thing).

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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-my-dsl-providers-fault-or-is-it-my-computer/359887/22 "2006-06-09T19:55:14Z")

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It’s a pain to not have access now a days. It’s worse when you have no idea that it is going to be gone for a while and you need to get an email or find information about something.

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**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-my-dsl-providers-fault-or-is-it-my-computer/359887/23 "2006-06-09T22:29:04Z")

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> [@diku](#):
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> Right, but if it was pulling a 169 address, she wouldn’t be able to ping yahoo or anything else. Nothing would resolve. Another quick check, can you ping the other computer? If they can ping and respond to each other, winsock is probably fine.

:smack: D’oh! That’ll teach me to try to do tech. support with a belly full of gin and tonics! (or more likely, it won’t…)

Anyways, glad to hear you’re back with us, **MsWhatsit**!

I’m surprised the guy had you ping MSN and CNN… both of them (as well as many other sites) have [ICMP](http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/ICMP.html) turned off; so the will not respond to ping requests. Huh.

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**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-my-dsl-providers-fault-or-is-it-my-computer/359887/24 "2006-06-09T23:43:40Z")

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NSA :eek:

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