N
Dear Local Congregation,
Is this a me-thing or a system-thing?
Likely the combination of wet/humid conditions and some
questionable connections/splices/wiring from your service
provider. Out were I am lots of people are still on twisted pair
copper put in originally for voice-only and not maintained well
(just too low density customers to be worth their trouble?)... and
those services are very sensitive to humidity and ground-moisture
(not enough rain yet to saturate anywhere though?). Poorly
maintained shielded cable (usually for cableTV/Internet) can be
as bad or worse, but if it is above ground or installed recently
(last 20-30 years?) it shouldn't be too badly effected...
Optical (last 20?) Fiber should be immune to problems with
dampness, though some switches along the way go back to
electrons/copper and may suffer, but should be climate controlled
environments.
It is likely that your neighborhood is effected as well as you...
do you know them well enough to ask?
I had comcast twisted pair (phone) into my house until about 2009
when I got tired of calling them everytime it failed only to have
them tell me it had to be my house wiring even though I'd gone to
the outside box and tested with identical results. They very
rarely came to my house during that time and "automagically" the
problem went away within a day or two (only to return a few weeks
or months later). My guess is they were overdue for service
somewhere upstream of me and simply waited until someone in the
downstream wiring had a problem to bother to repair/upgrade. At
the time it was likely they had over a mile of wire serving only 4
houses... after they drove me away they were down to 3... seems
like a diminishing gains situation for them, but they DID sign the
franchise agreements "back when" when they wanted the (exclusive?)
right to serve the area and had to agree to serve us marginals
too. Oh well.
S
- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam
un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam
un/subscribe
http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.comarchives:
http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC
http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
Locked
