Using a Blunt Object
I want to render something metabolically challenged. The situation is this—and bear with me, because it sounds ridiculous: every time it rains for more than two hours, I have to manually reset my router every 10-20 minutes to keep my internet working. And yes, this makes absolutely no sense, there is no reason this should ever happen, much less why it should be tied to precipitation. I have looked everywhere, read incredibly boring and esoteric technical literature, and come to the conclusion that this is not possible; categorically, it just cannot be. And yet it’s been happening for the entire three years we’ve lived in this building. All possible permutations of two different modems and three different routers have displayed this behavior.
And now, well. Frankly, something must die. BRB.
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leff and i have this problem as well. do you have cable internet? we’re tied to comcast (which, omfg, i LOOOOATHE!) and every time we have a lot of rain both cable and internet get sluggish/spotty/generally crappy.
this is *so* wonderful considering that we live in seattle.
i’m sorry that you have the same problem. i have no solution because we’ve been manually resetting for years now. just thought i’d commiserate.
Consider my mind blown. I also have cable via Comcast, as it is the only option available due to some antitrust-tempting agreement they have with my apartment. Srsly, the apartment won’t even allow DSL due to this agreement. In 3 years, I’ve never found anyone else who had this same issue, either online or F2F! Did we win some sort of reverse-lottery?
Actually, i haven’t noticed it being quite as bad since we moved upstairs. It’s probably something like faulty shielding on the coax to the modem. But only slightly faulty. So when they come out to test it it’s fine. And it’s comcast, so the idea of asking them to come out the next time it rains is laughable.
That almost makes a kind of sense. Oddly, I didn’t ever consider calling them. I can’t explain it to myself, how would I explain it to a person paid minimum wage to babysit phones? Guess this is just how low expectations of service from this company have sunk.
It is nice to know I’m not crazy, though.