Monday, July 23, 2012
Staying connected
We were without Internet all last week. The problem started after the termite treatments, so at first we thought that the chemicals had destroyed the modem, or that the tent had dislodged the lines going into our house. Andrew spent hours on the phone with tech support, and we had two visits from cable guys. In the end, they decided that the DSL line from the street to the house needed to be replaced. Why? Well, the line had never been designed to carry data. And it was corroded. And a squirrel chewed through it. I guess that shouldn't have been as hard to diagnose as it was.
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You wouldn't think the squirrels have as much appetite for data as they do.
a good example of why it is so difficult to replace old infrastructure. Probably they do not even keep track of where they have old cables.
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