Beaver Freezing really bad

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Have activa as main, beaver as back up. Waiting to renew Activa, Beaver is freezing real bad. So bad not sure I will renew with them!!

[dishuser]

Have activa as main, beaver as back up. Waiting to renew Activa, Beaver is freezing real bad. So bad not sure I will renew with them!!

why is it you're only one saying that?
hmmmm

[Mensam]

why is it you're only one saying that?
hmmmm
Seriously, then yes I wonder. It freezes about every 10 minutes, I get the scrambled channel sign, then after about 3 minutes it comes back. I can gladly post a vid to show this! Could it be that my internet is messing up since no one else seems to have this problem?

[mrpink]

Seriously, then yes I wonder. It freezes about every 10 minutes, I get the scrambled channel sign, then after about 3 minutes it comes back. I can gladly post a vid to show this! Could it be that my internet is messing up since no one else seems to have this problem?

This is where you post to get help, or help other members.
If you are having freezing issues, really need to look at things on your end. It is difficult to tell the difference between this p$ and a real sub, so its confusing to hear you state issues about freezing. If the freezing was an issue, you would be seeing multiple posts talking about it.

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IKS Freezing Explained:
Thanks goes to WebWizard for putting this info together
c/p
Hopefully this will alleviate some of the posts saying things like server down again, or, are we down again?

Hopefully if you are running any form of IKS, regardless of the box and the server you should know what an IP is at that point. So I will not explain that part of it.

At the time I am writing this, SV is down, Nfusion & Kbox are up. I do not know about the rest. Now there is an easy way to tell server status of any IKS at any given time. First look in either your network config on your receiver as some models have the info there, or, if IP the receiver is connecting to is not visible then you will have to resort to your router settings or logs to pull the info but it is obtainable.

Once you have the IP you can easily check the status of the server by going to a DOS prompt and typing ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx is server IP). If it times out then the server is down! Otherwise you are having some other type of issue.

Now to explain the occassional freeze there is another command you can type at the DOS prompt. This will only work in entirety when server is up and running, but if it is down you will get a partial listing up to last connection to where the interruption is occurring. at the DOS prompt type tracert xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (where xxx is server IP).

You will now see every hop from your computer to the IKS server unless of course the server is down. You will also see how long it takes to make each connection in milliseconds. Now, this is some interesting information if you really break it down.

If you have 8 to 10 hops in there with a time of 200 milliseconds, you have used about 2 seconds to make that connection. Using a proxy could easily make this worse as depending on what you are using for a proxy. A proxy could include more hops plus just by using a proxy you are adding one hop to connect to the proxy server itself.

Ok some basic math here, saying your receiver rquires 10 hops at about 200 milliseconds, that means your "keyword" request takes 2 seconds to reach server. Servers work on a FIFO (First In First Out) when answering requests. So you can have some delay before the server can answer your request and then you have the 2 seconds required to send that info back. This whole procedure has to re-occurr over and over about every 10-15 seconds to prevent a box from freezing. Any lag on any server along the way can cause the issue of freezing as they transfer data back and forth.

Found post in another location on this site. Odd why I am freezing and no one else is, perhaps this may explain my freezing. Further I am at the very tail end for the CO for internet, therefore my internet is very very slow. So instead of bashing my post perhaps someone could have informed me that this may be why I am freezing and no one else is. Hmm hope I never need help from either one of you guys. Going to watch your posts and see if you never complain. LMFAO!! Oh and btw in writing this short post, I have froze 3 times for about 3 minutes each time!

[thebeav]

your times look good if it is a fta that lets u put in more then one server at a time disable all but beaver and try it
here is last 15 min pings from you

[torpainter]

No one bashed your post!! You need to relax a little

[hammer51]

hd channels are freezing and scrambling now same on basic

hammer51

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hd channels are freezing and scrambling now same on basic

hammer51
Thank you hammer51 and also thanks to thebeav. That is most likely what my problem is. I have 2 servers running. I will disconnect from the other one and connect only to beaver.

[walter]

R u kidding me here?

Folks being naive and posting that they are unable to watch certain channel but are able to watch another is one thing...

Actually posting the server log that shows it seems uncomfortable to me.

[thebeav]

no personal info was shown it was wiped out

the guy is haveing issues and im trying to see why and helping him by showing the pings are low

[Mensam]

R u kidding me here?

Folks being naive and posting that they are unable to watch certain channel but are able to watch another is one thing...

Actually posting the server log that shows it seems uncomfortable to me.

Thanks walter!! Was wondering about that, funny I am not able to ping

[fonger]

i took out the IMG.
in any case, thank thebeav for assisting with the user at that technical level.

[Mensam]

This post was from last night about 10:00 pm mst. As of now, all is good and has been for the last 20 min. Maybe it was a glitch in my internet, maybe it was my receiver, maybe it was who the heck knows, but now it is back to normal. If you will look at my posts, I have only said good things about beaver. Last night I thought maybe it was going down. I am not a pro by far with this, only been in it, like 17 years, but when I get back freezing I post in case others have the same issue. No one did, therefore, YES, it probably does have something to do with my internet provider. So thanks to all that helped out.

[thebeav]

no problem at all im hear to help if i can

i would rather know if there is issues so we can try to fix them thanks