ISP is flaking out almost exactly at 5pm when their office closes. HOW CONVENIENT. 😛
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@Eggfreckles it's not cellular, I know. Not sure the official term for this category, but it's kind of like souped up wifi as I understand it. They have radios on many towers around town and then customers have radios at their homes that need to point pretty much directly at those towers. Mine is on an old TV antenna tower the house came with (which was handy). They upgraded a few years ago and I get 250+ down, but upload is 1/10th of that. Nowhere near fiber, but didn't have any other option.
@bigzaphod Okay that sounds eerily like when my router kept losing WAN around 5am *and* 5pm every day. Briefly considered router was dying before suspecting my fiber modem was to blame. But then the problem disappeared with no intervention on my part, and I’m just choosing to believe some minion ATT tech discovered a misconfiguration and quietly pushed out a fix.
And of course ATT will never admit wrongdoing or give credit for the brief outages.
@bigzaphod One time I had an issue for close to a year, every day around the same time, my connection would totally drop for at least 5-10 minutes. After I don’t know how many people coming over to “fix” it, they found out that a Fire Department down the street had been testing a new system at that same time, and others finally started complaining.. Weird.
@JPZ oh wow... some kind of interference, I guess?
@bigzaphod I never found out the “how”, just the “why”.. But I remember at the time, after that day I never had those consistent issues anymore. Things can be weird when you least expect them to.
Last night my ISP got flaky right around 5pm. I posted about it here, sent them an email then logged off for a bit and got some food, etc.
By the time we sat down to watch TV it was working fine again and I sorta forgot about it.
This morning they called and told me they had a problem on a tower and fixed it by 7pm and they just wanted to let me know.
Honestly, I like my ISP. They aren't the fastest, but they're a small local company, they always call back, and they always fix their problems.