@1984 368542 wrote:
how long u had ur broad band? your probably only contracted for a year so you could just ring them up and say u want a new free rooter. I did that, and the newer deal they had was cheaper so it worked out well.
@DJCliffy 368541 wrote:
It’s not usually like this, it’s only been the last three days it’s been shit, it’ll be ok for an hour then the connection fucks up. You could be right but we’ve been having problems with our internet for fucking ages now.
Think we need a new modem cos we’re forever having to reset the blasted thing. It is proper knackered though! 😥
there’s a variety of reasons for this. one is simply because people are staying in more due to shit weather and its increased the load on the internet – but a more pernicious one is because this weather washes a mixture of water and rock salt into cable ducts that BT Openreach and NTL use. If there are any dodgy bits of cable or splices, this mixture of salt and water corrodes them into various chemicals.
These chemicals can react with other stuff in the air and the bits of cale become semi-conductors rather than just conductors – and semi conductors connected to bits of wire pick up stray radio signals. unlike your router or mobile phone where you obviously want to receive radio signals – these damaged cables create interference to the broadband signals going down them. and there are loads of stray signals – cops and taxicabs’ radios, and big transmitters of the BBC and foreign nations used for their radio services.
As these problems are often intermittent and depend on the weather, it can take ages for Openreach or NTL to locate them and sort them out..
