A few years ago we'd lose dial tone any time it rained. DSL still worked which I thought was interesting. A guy came and looked it all over, he decided to upgrade our box and run a new wire. He showed me where the old wire had no insulation for about an inch where it came out of the junction at the pole. Haven't had issues since then.
I should mention that my problem was only with wi-fi, my cable attached computer works great. -Curt Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:37:54 -0500 From: Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: My wi-fi router might be sick Message-ID: <52d9bed2.4070...@constructivity.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed BTW, I was having fits with my DSL connection, which is mostly run through wi-fi in the house. The DSL modem could not hold a lock, I would reboot it and it would go for awhile again. Seemed to happen more when it rained, which made me think the line was getting wet or something. I finally called ATT as they are always out in the road messing with cables and such, I figured they had buggered something out there. The switching office is probably only 1/2mi from my house, so I figure I should get good service. I have moved some wires around in my house addition work, but put stuff back together better than it was, so that was not the issue. Anyway, the guy came and determined that I had no ground on the box their line came into. I do not recall seeing any ground when I was moving the box, or I would have hooked it up. So he upgraded the terminal box and ran a ground to my temp electric pole ground, which has made the DSL rock solid since then, and the voice is better too. I guess I did not make that part better in my movings, but had it been there I would have probably done the same thing he did. So, that suggests that if you are having troubles, take a look at your terminal box (or network interface or whatever they call it) where their line matches up with house lines and make sure everything is connected properly. --R _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
