[117954] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Wed Oct 7 10:50:26 2009
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: hank@efes.iucc.ac.il (Hank Nussbacher)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:48:30 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0910070743270.2401@efes.iucc.ac.il> from "Hank
Nussbacher" at Oct 07, 2009 07:44:57 AM
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/17-10/ts_burningquestion
It used to be that we would notice this, except that it had everything to
do with temperature *and* dampness. In the '90's, it was still quite
common for a lot of older outside plant to be really only "voice grade"
and it wasn't unusual for copper to run all the way back to the CO,
through a variety of taps and splice points. Even though Ma Bell would
typically do a careful job handling their copper, the sheer number of
potential points of failure meant that it wasn't unusual for water to
infiltrate and penetrate. If I recall correctly, the worst was usually
a long, hard cold rain (hey we're in Wisconsin) after which people who
had been getting solidly high speed modem connects would see a somewhat
slower speed.
... JG
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