Bryce C wrote:
> Unrelated: How has the heat come close to destroying your Cox
> connections? Just wondering.

Well, I was told by the cable fixing guy that heat can negatively affect 
the operation of many of the components that matter.  And as evidence to 
that my cable connection has started suffering major connection issues 
... for instance, before I called them last week it got progressively 
worse ... to the point where it went down every 10-20 minutes.

Also, the third to last time I had a problem (November) I wrote a perl 
script to scrape the RF parameters from my cable modem ... and you can 
see obvious general trends with those parameters as the weather gets 
hotter ... well OK ... maybe they arent conclusive.  I should also have 
some tangible temperature data, which I haven't ...

You can also see daily oscillations, which perhaps can be attributed to 
temperature ... but possibly not too ...  I dunno

http://godber.org:8080/godber/info/all-monthly.png

The big bump you see in week 12 is from when they worked on my 
connection ... I can't explain why it oscillated right back the old 
steady state ... they haven't reverted the changes back to what it was 
... as far as I know.

Also, I am not so much criticizing Cox at this point.  There are lots of 
factors contributing to my bad connection ... largely the existing wire 
in this building, the heat and the fact that my signal has been split 
last summer ... despite it not being their fault (whose responsibility 
is the wiring afterall, not mine, thats for sure) it will probably cost 
them my business ... and I have been a long time customer ... paying for 
cable in two places at once for quite some time even ;)

Anyway, any fastq resellers still out there, if you want contact me off 
list.  I might be in the market in a month or two.

Austin
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