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September 07, 2008  
Subject: WLM and Service Attack
Group: microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger
Date: 7/2/2008 4:00:10 PM
From: psu-clint [Email Address Protection]


I had a very interesting test I performed yesterday. I have been having
this problem for some time now and I think I pin pointed it down to my
WLM account.

I play an online game name Phantasy Star Universe by Sega of America.
In the past I have been getting service interruption meaning the lights
on my modem stay on but all PC's and game consoles in the entire network
cannot communicate to the internet and are disconnected from there
services. During the morning hours 07/01/2008 our internet service had
been working fine. We have a Linksys WRT54G V5. As soon as I logged onto
WLM and also my game no more than 10 min go by and BAM service
interruption. I follow up with a ping to yahoo.com and also try to bring
up Google my homepage and no luck, telling me there is a DNS issue. So
in the past I used to force a public IP change and it seem to solve the
problem. But yesterday not the case. I logged back into my game 2 min
later BAM again no service. I all ready called my ISP and f**** that
they know nothing. So I decided to do a series of tests. After my second
disconnect I forced a new public IP change turned off my WLM and played
fine for 1 hour no problems. So during this good spree of no
interruptions I turned my WLM back on 5 min into a new mission BAM
Service interruption. So I forced a new public IP change shut down WLM
and played for 2 hours and had no trouble. So once again I turned on WLM
and 10 min into the game BAM again Service interruption. At this point I
had 3 suspected friends in my friend list that I suspected may be doing
something strange. So I deleted the WLM account created a new one
excluding the 3 suspects and I have been running the game all day with
no trouble with the new WLM account working fine. Anybody got some input
on this one??? :sarc:


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Subject: Re: WLM and Service Attack
Group: microsoft.public.windows.live.messenger
Date: 7/2/2008 9:48:12 PM
From: "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" [Email Address Protection]

Greetings,

Similar things have been reported before and usually solved by upgrading the router's
firmware to the latest version.

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"psu-clint" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:219da06f9a6d9259258492bfe3f86387@nntp-gateway.com...
>
> I had a very interesting test I performed yesterday. I have been having
> this problem for some time now and I think I pin pointed it down to my
> WLM account.
>
> I play an online game name Phantasy Star Universe by Sega of America.
> In the past I have been getting service interruption meaning the lights
> on my modem stay on but all PC's and game consoles in the entire network
> cannot communicate to the internet and are disconnected from there
> services. During the morning hours 07/01/2008 our internet service had
> been working fine. We have a Linksys WRT54G V5. As soon as I logged onto
> WLM and also my game no more than 10 min go by and BAM service
> interruption. I follow up with a ping to yahoo.com and also try to bring
> up Google my homepage and no luck, telling me there is a DNS issue. So
> in the past I used to force a public IP change and it seem to solve the
> problem. But yesterday not the case. I logged back into my game 2 min
> later BAM again no service. I all ready called my ISP and f**** that
> they know nothing. So I decided to do a series of tests. After my second
> disconnect I forced a new public IP change turned off my WLM and played
> fine for 1 hour no problems. So during this good spree of no
> interruptions I turned my WLM back on 5 min into a new mission BAM
> Service interruption. So I forced a new public IP change shut down WLM
> and played for 2 hours and had no trouble. So once again I turned on WLM
> and 10 min into the game BAM again Service interruption. At this point I
> had 3 suspected friends in my friend list that I suspected may be doing
> something strange. So I deleted the WLM account created a new one
> excluding the 3 suspects and I have been running the game all day with
> no trouble with the new WLM account working fine. Anybody got some input
> on this one??? :sarc:
>
>
> --
> psu-clint



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