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Re: FF vs BR vs bad Internet

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T wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I had the experience two days ago at a customer site
> where the Internet carrier, in their ultimate wisdom,
> had provisioned two customers with the same fixed
> IP address.  They admitted to the problem but would
> not fix it.  Needless to say, my customer gets a
> new Internet provider come next week.
> 
> So the Internet connection got broken every five second
> or so until the other party on the provision went
> home.  Then everything was solid.
> 
> Anyway, I put both Firefox (Gecko) and Brave Browser
> (Blink) on the customer's machine.  Both browser
> had heart failure over the problem.  Brave would
> almost not work.  But Firefox would mostly tolerate
> the problem, although with a lot of complaining.
> And I could not download poop with either of them.
> 
> -T

You run across some interesting computer related issues.
:)

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FF vs BR vs bad Internet T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-15 12:11 -0700
  Re: FF vs BR vs bad Internet Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2025-03-15 13:49 -0600
    Re: FF vs BR vs bad Internet T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-15 13:22 -0700
      Re: FF vs BR vs bad Internet John McCue <jmccue@qball.jmcunx.com> - 2025-03-16 14:01 +0000
  Re: FF vs BR vs bad Internet Paul in Houston TX <Paul@Houston.Texas> - 2025-03-15 16:33 -0500
  Re: FF vs BR vs bad Internet Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-16 01:17 +0000
    Re: FF vs BR vs bad Internet Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2025-03-16 03:45 +0100
    Re: FF vs BR vs bad Internet T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-15 20:26 -0700

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