Thursday, May 03, 2007

Vodafone Wireless Access - Or Not

I'm in Italy today, trying to get onto the Internet. A valued client has brought a number of journalists from around Europe to see more about Longhorn - but the wireless if commercial (supplied by Vodafone).

Here's a snippet of the logs:

 

Thu, 3 May 2007 12:34:21 Collecting mail from POP3 server pop.newsguy.com
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:34:21 Timed out connecting to POP3 server pop3.demon.co.uk
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:34:21 Collecting mail from POP3 server pop.mistral.net
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:35:21 Timed out connecting to POP3 server pop.newsguy.com
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:35:21 Collecting mail from POP3 server pop.mistral.net
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:35:21 Timed out connecting to POP3 server pop.mistral.net
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:35:38 Collecting mail from POP3 server pop.mistral.net
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:35:38 Collecting mail from POP3 server pop3.demon.co.uk
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:36:38 Timed out connecting to POP3 server pop.mistral.net
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:36:38 Collecting mail from POP3 server pop.newsguy.com
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:36:39 Timed out connecting to POP3 server pop3.demon.co.uk
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:36:39 Collecting mail from POP3 server pop.mistral.net
Thu, 3 May 2007 12:36:59 Failed to connect to POP3 server pop.newsguy.com:
[translating host name to IP address]
Host IP address = 64.214.94.172
... trying to connect
Connection failed -
-- Winsock ERROR : Connection timed out

 

Etc...

How impressive - NOT!

 

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