The joys of broadband

posted by jack at 08:21 CET in / compute / network

I've recently gotten broadband service at home. When it works, it works great, but unfortunately our provider has decided to use some new bleeding-edge equipment that doesn't play well with the houses on our street. The network uses the same co-ax as our cable TV, and if our TV "accidentally" sends voltage out the cable (which apparently some TVs do) it fries some critical piece of network equipment.

So, it can work great for weeks at a time, then be out for days and days. So I had no network access at home from noonish last Friday until today. And just when I had started messing with this blog! Crikey.