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iago:
So I noticed that the speed of the server this morning was rather slow. Also, we had a good dump of snow last night (~a foot, by my estimation, which involved measuring the tallest drift I can find).

I don't think it's a coincidence that for both big snowfalls this year we've had speed issue. At the same time, the roadinfo page (which details road conditions) for the government of manitoba has been hammered big time. I suspect that the speed issue is all the people checking on roads and weather.

I think I'm going to move back to DSL rather than Cable, since I never had this kind of problem back then. Cable hasn't been good to me in the last ~1.5 months.

Blaze:
I blame the schools!

Cables always been good to me.  :(

Chavo:
Cable seems to be affected by the weather more often around here as well.  As far as the technology goes there isn't any reason that I know of that this should be true so perhaps telcos that have had their lines in the ground longer have done a better job of weatherproofing.  Meh, if there is water on the line it should be easy to find and protect.

Joe:

--- Quote from: Chavo on December 13, 2007, 03:17:45 pm ---Cable seems to be affected by the weather more often around here as well.  As far as the technology goes there isn't any reason that I know of that this should be true so perhaps telcos that have had their lines in the ground longer have done a better job of weatherproofing.  Meh, if there is water on the line it should be easy to find and protect.

--- End quote ---

That sounds like a deal or no deal situation. If theres water on the line I would expect absolutely nothing to get through, unless you're lucky and it didn't short.

Armin:

--- Quote from: Chavo on December 13, 2007, 03:17:45 pm ---Cable seems to be affected by the weather more often around here as well.  As far as the technology goes there isn't any reason that I know of that this should be true so perhaps telcos that have had their lines in the ground longer have done a better job of weatherproofing.  Meh, if there is water on the line it should be easy to find and protect.

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iago's not blaming it one the weather itself, yet the fact that people are more apt to check weather forecasts in times of bad weather. I can't remember exactly why this is true, but IIRC, the same cable line is spread out across an area and it's a shared pool, while DSL is a single line dedicated to you.

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