Connection woes
Posted : Saturday May 23rd, 2009

sigh

A sure sign of summer here is that my internet connection has gone haywire. It's a bit ... not good.

I am having what is known as a dry loop DSL installed because I believe a good portion of the problem here is the physical phone line, which is of not very good quality. But there actually seem to be multiple gremlins at play. I believe both the modem and my wireless router are overheating, and I have a feeling that at least one of my ethernet cables really needs replacement.

Which brings us back to why the weather. Well. I think when the humidity reaches a certain point the line quality decays even further. This isn't totally impossible I don't think and my working experience goes a long ways to proving that theory. But I think what's really happening is that the degrading in DSL signal is sort of the straw that breaks the camel's back. So I think part of the solution will be figuring out how to keep the modem and router cooler as well.

Anyway, not really fun stuff and pretty annoying to be honest. Hopefully by this time next week I'll have a connection that works for more than 5 minutes at a time once an hour.

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