Why I No Longer Order from Performance/Nashbar - Page 7 - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

06-16-2004, 07:24 AM

So in looking through my traceroute, I see the packets are hung up in
Qwest's network. My ISP will not have anything to do with it since the
packets are leaving bellsouth's network just fine. So I call Qwest (since
they have no e-mail address for support for non Qwest subscribers). They
tell me even though the packets are bouncing in their network and stopping
there, there's nothing they can do to help me (what a crock of crap from
someone who just does not wanna do their job - hell, it's THEIR network and
the packets are formatted properly, and their network won't send them on...)

So I sent an e-mail to the webmaster at performancebike with the tracert to
tell him that there's more than 1 of us out there who can't get to his web
site, here's some info to help him out, and it will be costing them
business, and here's the tracert and hopefully he, as the owner of the site,
can get someone to help him with it.

So anyway, for inquiring minds....

"salmoneous" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
news:54daff87.0406131311.5d68bd1d@posting.google.c om...
> For whatever reason, I can't get through to Performance or Nashbar's
> website. My computer refuses to connect, and has for a month. I've
> tried several browsers, clearing caches, etc. Nothing works.
>
> A little reading turns up that I'm not the only one who's had this
> problem, though it sounds like most people don't. They've got some
> weird code or something.
>
> In any case, though I've been a happy customer for years, I'm too lazy
> to try and fix this anymore. I'm trying a couple of other places to
> see who has good prices and service. Any suggestions for places I may
> have overlooked.
>
> Oh, and if anyone knows anyone who works for Nashbar, tell them to fix
> their website. Who knows how many people have similar issues.

06-16-2004, 08:32 AM

Dave wrote:
> So in looking through my traceroute, I see the packets are hung up in
> Qwest's network. My ISP will not have anything to do with it since
> the packets are leaving bellsouth's network just fine. {snip}

Stragely enough, I just got an e-mail from non-Performance today, and when I
clicked on a link I got a "dead" error page. (I was an early replier to OP,
saying no problem w/my connection on same ISP.)

Now I can't connect to /either/ Performance or Stuporgo, although Nashbar
loaded fine. (Not that I'm even shopping for anything right now; spent WAY
too much in last few months!)

Bill "sure seems like it must be on their end" S.

06-16-2004, 08:32 AM

Dave wrote:
> So in looking through my traceroute, I see the packets are hung up in
> Qwest's network. My ISP will not have anything to do with it since
> the packets are leaving bellsouth's network just fine. {snip}

Stragely enough, I just got an e-mail from non-Performance today, and when I
clicked on a link I got a "dead" error page. (I was an early replier to OP,
saying no problem w/my connection on same ISP.)

Now I can't connect to /either/ Performance or Stuporgo, although Nashbar
loaded fine. (Not that I'm even shopping for anything right now; spent WAY
too much in last few months!)

Bill "sure seems like it must be on their end" S.

06-16-2004, 08:32 AM

Dave wrote:
> So in looking through my traceroute, I see the packets are hung up in
> Qwest's network. My ISP will not have anything to do with it since
> the packets are leaving bellsouth's network just fine. {snip}

Stragely enough, I just got an e-mail from non-Performance today, and when I
clicked on a link I got a "dead" error page. (I was an early replier to OP,
saying no problem w/my connection on same ISP.)

Now I can't connect to /either/ Performance or Stuporgo, although Nashbar
loaded fine. (Not that I'm even shopping for anything right now; spent WAY
too much in last few months!)

Bill "sure seems like it must be on their end" S.

06-16-2004, 08:32 AM

Dave wrote:
> So in looking through my traceroute, I see the packets are hung up in
> Qwest's network. My ISP will not have anything to do with it since
> the packets are leaving bellsouth's network just fine. {snip}

Stragely enough, I just got an e-mail from non-Performance today, and when I
clicked on a link I got a "dead" error page. (I was an early replier to OP,
saying no problem w/my connection on same ISP.)

Now I can't connect to /either/ Performance or Stuporgo, although Nashbar
loaded fine. (Not that I'm even shopping for anything right now; spent WAY
too much in last few months!)

Bill "sure seems like it must be on their end" S.

06-16-2004, 08:32 AM

Dave wrote:
> So in looking through my traceroute, I see the packets are hung up in
> Qwest's network. My ISP will not have anything to do with it since
> the packets are leaving bellsouth's network just fine. {snip}

Stragely enough, I just got an e-mail from non-Performance today, and when I
clicked on a link I got a "dead" error page. (I was an early replier to OP,
saying no problem w/my connection on same ISP.)

Now I can't connect to /either/ Performance or Stuporgo, although Nashbar
loaded fine. (Not that I'm even shopping for anything right now; spent WAY
too much in last few months!)

Bill "sure seems like it must be on their end" S.

06-16-2004, 08:33 AM

S o r n i wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>> So in looking through my traceroute, I see the packets are hung up in
>> Qwest's network. My ISP will not have anything to do with it since
>> the packets are leaving bellsouth's network just fine. {snip}
>
> Stragely enough, I just got an e-mail from non-Performance today, and
> when I clicked on a link I got a "dead" error page. (I was an early
> replier to OP, saying no problem w/my connection on same ISP.)
>
> Now I can't connect to /either/ Performance or Stuporgo, although
> Nashbar loaded fine. (Not that I'm even shopping for anything right
> now; spent WAY too much in last few months!)
>
> Bill "sure seems like it must be on their end" S.

UPDATE: never mind.

Bill "all back to normal now" S.

06-16-2004, 08:33 AM

S o r n i wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>> So in looking through my traceroute, I see the packets are hung up in
>> Qwest's network. My ISP will not have anything to do with it since
>> the packets are leaving bellsouth's network just fine. {snip}
>
> Stragely enough, I just got an e-mail from non-Performance today, and
> when I clicked on a link I got a "dead" error page. (I was an early
> replier to OP, saying no problem w/my connection on same ISP.)
>
> Now I can't connect to /either/ Performance or Stuporgo, although
> Nashbar loaded fine. (Not that I'm even shopping for anything right
> now; spent WAY too much in last few months!)
>
> Bill "sure seems like it must be on their end" S.

UPDATE: never mind.

Bill "all back to normal now" S.

06-16-2004, 08:33 AM

S o r n i wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>> So in looking through my traceroute, I see the packets are hung up in
>> Qwest's network. My ISP will not have anything to do with it since
>> the packets are leaving bellsouth's network just fine. {snip}
>
> Stragely enough, I just got an e-mail from non-Performance today, and
> when I clicked on a link I got a "dead" error page. (I was an early
> replier to OP, saying no problem w/my connection on same ISP.)
>
> Now I can't connect to /either/ Performance or Stuporgo, although
> Nashbar loaded fine. (Not that I'm even shopping for anything right
> now; spent WAY too much in last few months!)
>
> Bill "sure seems like it must be on their end" S.

UPDATE: never mind.

Bill "all back to normal now" S.

06-16-2004, 08:33 AM

S o r n i wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>> So in looking through my traceroute, I see the packets are hung up in
>> Qwest's network. My ISP will not have anything to do with it since
>> the packets are leaving bellsouth's network just fine. {snip}
>
> Stragely enough, I just got an e-mail from non-Performance today, and
> when I clicked on a link I got a "dead" error page. (I was an early
> replier to OP, saying no problem w/my connection on same ISP.)
>
> Now I can't connect to /either/ Performance or Stuporgo, although
> Nashbar loaded fine. (Not that I'm even shopping for anything right
> now; spent WAY too much in last few months!)
>
> Bill "sure seems like it must be on their end" S.

UPDATE: never mind.

Bill "all back to normal now" S.