Thank you Ray It's definitely time not temperature or humidity. Slow from late afternoon and all evening and all day weekends. Cheers John John Daniels [email protected]
On 15/06/2011, at 9:41 AM, Ray Forma wrote: > > John, > > a considerable while back I had similar problems. Whenever it became cold, my > Internet speed would decline markedly. I complained repeatedly to my ISP, > AAPT, who treated me like an idiot, continually asking me to disconnect all > other equipment etc. To shut them up I disconnected the house telephone > wiring at our point-of-presence, and connected my modem directly to the POP. > Then using my mobile phone, I complained again. AAPT trotted out the usual > about other devices, so I explained what I had done. They first admonishing > me for having fiddled with the POP, but then tested the circuit once again > and downloaded my modem logs once again, and admitted that there was a > strange correlation between download speed and temperature. They then said > that the problem was inexplicable and that I would have to live with it. > > A while later I was fortunate to find a Telstra tech working on one of those > silver bollards at the end of our street closer to the exchange. > Uncharacteristically, he was quite friendly and I explained my problem to > him. He said he suspected it could be the joint on my cable in the actual > bollard on which he was working. He said many of the joints on that bollard > were bad because of some dodgy waterproofing compound that Telstra had used > decades ago. He got various details from me and said he would try to do > something one day. Amazing! About two weeks later there was a little note in > my letterbox saying joint found and cleaned, test speeds please. > > My speed has been fairly consistent since, come rain, shine, or school-kids. > All the evidence points to thermal expansion and contraction in a bad cable > joint as the cause of my problem. Unfortunately I didn't get the tech's > details so could not thank him for probably breaking a lot of Telstra > protocols, but fixing my problem. > > Check if your problem in not similar by correlating your speed with air > temperature, rather than time of day. Also check workdays vs weekend days, > and wet vs dry weather > > On 14/06/2011, at 6:50 PM, John Daniels wrote: > >> Hi everyone >> >> I am still being plagued with a big reduction in speed in the evening. Up >> until 3.20pm it was 162KBs, then went to 90KBs and 50KBs >> >> Has anyone else on Hammersley Exchange experienced this? >> >> Cheers >> >> John > > Regards, > > Ray Forma > Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
