[MLUG] OT : acanac, TekSavvy

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 03:42:46PM -0500, Alex Bedard wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Randy Sears <lists at cicleworks.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >     I had this problem too...although in my case it would be fine for a
> > month and then bad for a week, thus making it hard to get a tech to fix.
> > I am to the point of giving up on DSL and just using cable for now.
> >      Randy
> >
> >
> 
> Same thing here, during really long periods of drought in the summer, or
> once winter has settled in and there is  no wind storms, the signal is
> strong and I can keep a DSL connection for over a week, but as soon as
> spring hits and the snow starts melting, I am lucky if I can keep a
> connection uptime of an hour...

I had a problem like this -- it wasn't fixed till a tech came around 
while the lines were still wet.  It happened that by that time it was 
also a head tech -- the first-level techs had evidently kicked the 
problem upstairs.  He just wen out, looked at the cables on the poles, 
and pointed out where a squirrel had chewed through the insulation.

After Rewiring my connection through another strand of the cable, and 
everything was fine.

-- hendrik