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10Sep
2009 This is how bad my ADSL connection wasFor backround on the story, read more about it here: Part 1. Part 2. Here are some graphs showing the frequency of the connection. The first graph is connections by minute for the first hour, the second is connections by hour for the first 40 hours.
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03Sep
2009 Intermittent – a dirty word in telecomms – part 2Read the first part of the story here. Alas, the communication gods were with me and the phone was playing up when the tech got in yesterday. He called me on the land line before he got in, 3 minutes later the line got heaps noisy and then dial tone disappeared. I was so happy. [...]
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28Aug
2009 Intermittent – a dirty word in telecomms – part 1When you are a techy of any kind you often troubleshoot problems. Sometimes they are easy to solve, sometimes they are not. Of course before you fix anything you usually want to reproduce it. Again, sometimes it’s easy, other times it’s not. I am sure all programmers have come across a case where the sequence [...]