A big step forward – escape from Optus

Happy days!  We are finally moving out of our rental house, meaning that we can at last part ways with Optus as an internet service provider.* So, with a new IP address, urbanstreams.net can finally drag itself out of a dark, unvisited corner of the internet, with a proper URL….

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One small step for urbanstreams.net for Christmas 2013

Finally, urbanstreams.net is on-line full-time after a long frustrating search for the cause of the server’s random rebooting problem.  The multitude of websites out there that advise on random rebooting problems suggest numerous possibilities, but I didn’t find a pointer to what turned out to be my problem: a faulty…

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urbanstreams.net reborn: day 1

  If, by some miracle, you have lucked upon this site, well done – I’ve wasted a big slab of time setting up the urbanstreams.net server before becoming aware that my ISP, Optus, chooses to block port 80.  Fortunately, (if I am unable to talk Optus into opening up the…

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