can you e-mail me a copy of that script?

I'd appreciate it. I haven't seen any network outages due to weather yet, but 
I would like to see if there are trends.

Technomage Hawke

On Friday 26 March 2004 11:06 pm, Austin Godber wrote:
> 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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