| penguin42 | oh great, BT's troubleshooting site doesn't work... | 12:35 |
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| penguin42 | oh, it does just taking ages and ages | 12:35 |
| daftykins | where's the troubleshooting site for the troubleshooting site? ;) | 12:48 |
| penguin42 | right, annual phone line failure reported | 12:50 |
| daftykins | it's that consistent? | 12:51 |
| zxmpi | maybe they're trying to copy hp and just make the web site take 15 minutes to do anything :-P | 13:03 |
| daftykins | hahaha | 13:03 |
| daftykins | i'm impressed that was rolled back so quickly | 13:03 |
| zxmpi | which is sad as dublinbus website was doing that back in 2000. the site frontpage was over a megabyte in size when almost all were on 56k modems :-P | 13:04 |
| daftykins | :S | 13:04 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Not that consistent - last year it was April | 13:34 |
| * penguin42 guesses it depends how many fish are in the manholes | 13:34 | |
| daftykins | ah, any ideas what tends to be the solution each time? | 13:34 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: Normally they flip to a different wire until they find one that works | 13:35 |
| daftykins | hmm sounds like moisture related woes | 13:36 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: one year they said they redid the connection in a near by manhole, but last year they said it was another one further away and had to get a Openreach guy after the first guy (from the contractor Quinne failed to get anywhere | 13:36 |
| daftykins | wow they use subbies? weird | 13:37 |
| penguin42 | yeh, it was https://mjquinn.co.uk/ | 13:41 |
| daftykins | they ended up not using those Corning CBTs on my place for the fibre by the way, i forget if i mentioned... i got these rubbishy looking grey boxes screwed onto my front wall instead | 13:42 |
| daftykins | they seem to be 1-in-2-out affairs | 13:42 |
| penguin42 | yeh you said | 13:42 |
| penguin42 | I plan to call Youfibre in a week or two to see if they can end my virginity | 13:43 |
| daftykins | ah :D getting so bad for repetition nowadays | 13:43 |
| zxmpi | using virgin media here in ireland. internet does go down a fair bit. can usually count been down a few days per year. usually a trees branches will take out wire around here. | 13:47 |
| daftykins | surely VM cable isn't overhead? | 13:47 |
| zxmpi | so i now have tesco mobile prepay backup/ E15 a month and i have a hotspot on my phone. | 13:47 |
| zxmpi | adsl virgin media 50mb download iirc. my landlord provides it | 13:48 |
| zxmpi | free so not gonna complain | 13:48 |
| penguin42 | oh, didn't know vm did adsl, mine is docsis on underground soggy coax; they are doing some overhead fibre as well I think | 13:48 |
| daftykins | oh ok, i was assuming their usual hybrid fibre coax implementation as per UK cities | 13:49 |
| daftykins | it'll be VDSL2 though at a speed of 50 Mb | 13:49 |
| zxmpi | yeah ireland isn't mad on underground cables. they dissolve in irish bogs :-) | 13:49 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: They seem to be replacing the coax by FTTP in some cases - running RF-over-fibre | 13:49 |
| daftykins | funky | 13:50 |
| penguin42 | gratuitous hack really, so I think it's pretty much digitised RF that you then turn back at the far end and hey you have RF docsis back | 13:50 |
| zxmpi | i've seen coax run underground here in a conduit fail after a few minutes use. worked fine on power up after it had lain in ground for a year. but after an hours use packet loss on network was >95% | 13:51 |
| daftykins | surely just using some kind of grease filled cable would work out o0 | 13:52 |
| zxmpi | yeah, they tried that with the atmospheric railway. the grease helped create an air seal on the vaccuum tube. rats ate the grease soaked leather. | 13:55 |
| penguin42 | haha | 13:56 |
| daftykins | :O | 13:56 |
| daftykins | whoops, used the flavoured stuff ;) | 13:56 |
| zxmpi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalkey_Atmospheric_Railway | 13:56 |
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