I've been around the bend with loriel_eris and lord_varos on this one, but I thought it would be nice to get some other opinions before I commit this to fic.

In "Children of the Gods" Daniel says that he was unable to hit any active 'gates when dialing from Abydos. Can you think of any technical reasons we've seen in the series that would explain this?

My feeling is that the correlative updates kind of blew this away, but then there's also the attempt to separate off several 'gates into their own network, so perhaps Ra did something like that? (However if that was the case, how was Apophis able to dial out from the Abydos 'gate? And why didn't Ra lock out the Earth 'gate?)

To be honest, I'm kind of hoping no one can come up with a technical reason that makes sense and that I can claim Daniel lied.

Thoughts? Opinions?