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We use OptusCable for our internet connection in our current house. It was already all hooked up when we moved in. I bought a wireless router and a couple of wireless network cards, and M and I were very happy with our wirelessly connected lappys. However. I have begun noticing that whenever the weather gets fairly hot (like yesterday, and those 40 degree days a week or so ago) we lose our internet connection. I called Optus and flexed my old help desk muscle and got them to tell me that it was defnitely at their end and not at ours. And this was confirmed this morning when I read this on Whirlpool.

It’s very annoying. And as I’m not the account holder, there’s not really much I can do about it. But - I did remember the other night that I used to use the Scrapbook extension for Firefox. I installed the latest version the other night and saved myself some articles that I wanted to read through at a later date. So last night when I got home and, what a surprise, our connection was down, I just used Scrapbook to go through and read what I’d saved. It’s a very cool extension.

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A friend of mine had a similar problem with his Comcast cable connection. It turned out to be a thermal-related failure in the gear on the pole outside his apartment. Might want to have your cable provider take a look there.

dan typed this on Feb 09 06 at 1:12 pm

Also hot weather does weird things to the terminators - same with very cold weather. Might be that Optus’ equipment is reaching its environmental thresholds.

kartar typed this on Feb 09 06 at 8:34 pm

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