[117956] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Brashear)
Wed Oct 7 10:55:05 2009
From: Jonathan Brashear <Jonathan.Brashear@hq.speakeasy.net>
CC: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 07:52:55 -0700
In-Reply-To: <200910071448.n97EmU9t080849@aurora.sol.net>
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Trying to pinpoint the failure point on one of those circuits is a PITA as =
well. Getting a telco tech out to test on a circuit that only goes down wh=
en it rains is an exercise that Sisyphus would probably decline.=20
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From: Joe Greco [mailto:jgreco@ns.sol.net]=20
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 9:49 AM
To: Hank Nussbacher
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?
> http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/17-10/ts_burningquest=
ion
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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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
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