One of my favourites (and one I used myself for a long time) was "The solar flares are pretty bad at the moment, there must be a major inbound solar wave at the moment. This would be reversing the polarity on the wire and causing the slowness. Please contact Jodrell Bank and ask them to confirm when the wave is due to pass. After that time network service should be back to normal." I paraphrase somewhat.
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On DSL? Doesn't sound plausible to me to be honest.
Well I 'm definitely not having a laugh.
If you look here
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070207131207AAjh5WM at
answerers 2 & 5 they complain about wind, wet etc.. (probably more down the post)
And that's probably what happened to me.
I know for a fact that
moisture affects it because the eircom guy left the cable loose under my roof and the winds in November knocked it into the gutter. And when the gutter filled with water from the rain, the DSL was lost completely. When i lifted it out and left it to dry for a few hours, Miraculously my connection came back. I didn't bother with the CS of eircom cause they're no help. But this happened to me twice and since then i've properly secured it to the wall with clips and my connection hasn't dropped since, only slowed down.
As i said this may be a total fluke, but i'm definitely serious and no irony intended.
I'm sure I started a thread long ago asking ppl was the weather at fault for dropping my
DSL (my dsl light wouldn't even blink. like when it tries to connect to the
isp) then i posted that i lifted the line out of the gutter and it solved the problem.
PS- I was actually helped by an Australian telephone company on their forum, That's how i went to check for water in the gutter in the first place.
Ironic how an Australian would know more about the effects of bad weather on a telephone line more than an Irish person would... LoL.
Here's where i go for help on DSL:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/
This country is terrible for help. Maybe we're just arrogant, i don't know.