New High Speed Line Goes Active 10/08

[biglad]

Hiya all,

This coming Monday (10/08/2009), ANY time from 8am-10pm the MGA serevrs will go offline for 30-60 mins while out connection is re-routed onto the new high speed line/equipment we have just had fitted.

As this work will be carried out remotly there will be no warning.

Please note due to this big change the mina IP address for MGA will change. It can take 2-3 hours for the public DNS servers online to pick up this change, you can how ever speed this up by doing the following.

Clikc Start and then Run, type in "CMD" (with no ") and click run/open
in the DOS (black) window type (again without ") "IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS" . Vista users will need to be in admin mode.
This will clear your DNS cache and force a new download.

Once the new ISP goes live on friday as a player once you have re-connected everything will be as before BUT WITH NO LAG EVERY AGAIN!!!!!!

[Rachael]

Great news, Cant Wait for the new line to be up and running.
Lag free :)

[biglad]

small update, i just had a call from the new ISP, the 3rd party engineers (BT) have put of finsihing the installation of our line until monday.

please note due this last min chnage by BT, it may cause a couple of hours downtime on monday, as i booked Friday (07/08) off work to be on site with servers todo move to new lines. On monday when the change will take place i will be at work, but i will be monitoring everything from work, once the chnage has taken place and at the earliest possible time i will nip home from wotk to fit the new equipment.

also please note once this swap takes palce ALL MGA services will be offline until i install the new equipment (IRC/WebSite/Realms/UT/FL/Etc. all offline)

once install the new equipment everything will come back up :)

[Rachael]

Thanks for the Update, BT do take their time to do stuuf Guys so as well as you being fustrated so are we, Biglad being fustrated the post.

Apologies for this short notice change as that is what it was.

[Allister]

Thanks for the update Rachel and Biglad.Althought it may be frustrating it is for the better good and we all want a lag free server im sure?!No need to appologise.You guys do your best to keep " us " playing a great game at no cost.
my thanks to all the MGA staff team members and those who make this server possible.

[gerard]

no need to apologies rachel and big we all be patience and for the few who complain just ignore them they don't know what it means to run a private server keep up the good work.

numbers

[the8thark]

I agree with the above no need to apologise at all. Actually 2 thumbs up from me for keeping us players in the open about what happens, before it actually happens. I think you all know it's something I'm a little picky about.

Anyways this should be awesome really soon. Thanks.

[biglad]

as i will be at work when the swap over is done, i have left detailed instructions with my local onsite IT support (the wife lol).

so when the time comes she will remove the old reouter and add the new router in its place, i have some very basic config on the new router so i "should" be able to complete the install remotly but we will see

[gerard]

Numbers has the full trust in the local onsite IT support (:D)

[biglad]

im glad some does, u shoud see the instructions.

remove grey & black cables
just unplug blue cable
remove grey sqaure box

add white sqaure box
connect blue cable
connect white cable to white box & black socket in wall
connect black power lead

lol

[Rachael]

Hehe, We have trust in your onsite IT support she will do just fine hehe.

[gerard]

:D:D:D:D

simpel instructions must work big even when she is blond!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mafia]

yeey today is the big day :D (i hope :-s)

[biglad]

UPDATE FROM NEW ISP

The new system is live and everything is working, we are JUST waiting for the engineer to move the cable, disconnect it form the old ISP and connect it to the new one.

[biglad]

ANOTHER UPDATE FROM ISP

I just got off phone agian with the new ISP, they cant see any connection to me at all, so they are rebooking an engineer to visit and look at whats wrong.

(that is what they said, i think this means he forgot to plug it in lol)

[Rachael]

Well even Engineer's can be noobs =/

[zasa]

So...

When is the server going to be on the new "ISP," full time?

[gerard]

have patience it will be announced when it happens

[Rachael]

It will be done by 8am Wednesday, this is what Biglad has been told.

[zasa]

Cool, thanks for a response!

And the delete, for that matter...

[Mafia]

offtopic: whats happening with the server? :|

ye i know its very off topic but its better than starting e new topic me thinks
ty for the answer you can delete this post :D

[Rachael]

Very Off topic, It looks as though its looping. Comes online but then after a few seconds D/C's. I cannot say for sure as Biglad isn't around :(

[zasa]

I was noticing that, I'd get on long enough to get a brief whiff of StormWind air and punt, hhehe...
Is the server itself rebooting or just an app? If it is an app, the server prolly needs a reboot.

[biglad]

the disruption to service was the new SIP going live, we are no active ont he new ISP

[gerard]

will see what's different when the server comes up, will wait patience.

greetings and hope to see you all soon