I figure this qualifies as a hardware issue, so I'm posting it here.
As Dab would know if he's driven up this way lately, there is a major highway construction job going on near where I live - building a completely brand new 4 lane highway. I was talking to one of the regular customers where I work who also happens to be one of the main Comcast repair guys for our area.
What we're having happen is a perfect storm for the node that serves the area where I live. And what makes it frustrating / annoying is that it's only on the internet side - NOT the TV side. Anyway, between the age of the equipment, the high temperatures, all the re-routing and laying of new fiber and cable lines ...
Net result is that my internet connection for the rest of the summer is liable to go down without warning and be down anywhere from just a simple two second reboot all the way to 10 - 15 minute outages completely at random. (It used to be that I could say at 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm, and 9 pm it'd reset - now it's gotten so bad that it crashed twice this morning before I even left for work.)
Of course, it's not just me, it's my entire neighborhood that's being affected by this, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. So if you happen to see one of my ships disconnect and I don't show back up almost immediately, it's not even because of a computer issue. And I'll try to post each time in the disconnect thread if possible, but you know how that goes, too.
The only good side to this is that when it's all done, I should have a completely stable connection that's darn near T1. It's just an infrastructure thing, so...
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
I looked up when we are going to get optic fiber and therefore superduper fast internets according to my provider and I'm not likely to see that for around 3 years.
It seems Western Australia is the 'bastard child' of Australia when it comes to that kind of thing, in when it comes to a lot of things when I think about it.
All the really 'big' bands go to Sydney and Melbourne but don't come to Perth, although we have been getting more recently.
Still, my provider (iiNet) is in the forefront of tech down here and I hope it stays that way.
' Wrote:It seems Western Australia is the 'bastard child' of Australia when it comes to that kind of thing, in when it comes to a lot of things when I think about it.
Huh? Right now I get 14.98Mbps download, 1.51Mbps upload. So close, but hey - it's cable.
Note - that's from here to Indy (Hi, Dab!), ping of 30ms.
I go from here to Cincy, and things drop to 12.47Mbps down, 1.51 up, ping of 51.
It's crossing the pond that kills me - ping of 148, 5.72Mbps down, 1.40 up.
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.