Some readers may know that I live a little bit out in the sticks. The back of beyond in fact, internet has always been an issue even in the days of dial up.
The Welsh Assembly has been quite proactive in this - putting aside a pot of money to connect most of Wales to fast broadband. Sadly the issue has become Open Reach the company that owns the physical network.
A fairly substantial sum of money was thrown at the problem and the website said the work on our exchange would be done by May, about 2 years ago. In fact there was a deal of digging and laying of fibre from the exchange right across the mountain. What there was not was a rush to connect. So when the Assembly money had been used up laying the main core hardware, all Open Reach needed to do was use their own money to connect properties to the line. Something they declined to do.
So we have teetered along with our old copper line, old being the operative phrase. It has snapped completely twice in the last 18 months. There are dodgy connections along the line and every time there is rain or wind the connection speeds drop. Since September we have had in total nearly a week of down time as a connection block somewhere between here and the top of the mountain has intermittently failed. Every time the engineers turn up, by a miracle we are getting great connection speeds. As soon as they leave it drops again.
But maybe not, today an engineer is due and the interweb is barely connected. Maybe this time the errant connector will be found. Or maybe not.
This is better now we resolved the total outage of yesterday. The net went down fully, no connection at all. Gwion meanwhile was saying nothing, normally he will get out of his room to investigate if the net fails. But of course his ADSL lead was connected and the web working. Investigations and it turned out the wifi was down, all on it's own with no help. No amount of button prodding and re starts would persuade it to come back on so eventually hard wire the lap top to the modem, get inside it's operating system and make it work again. Very weird, how did that happen? Much much later out the kitchen again, Mau Mau the cat has found a nice new warm place to sit......
And now for the update, Open Reach have found that a section of overhead cable is faulty and a line crew will have to turn out to replace about 5 sections of line. Hmmmm did I say something like that when one section of the line snapped in September, not this September of course the September before that. Mau Mau might as well make the router her permanent seat, then at least someone will be getting some use out of it.
The Welsh Assembly has been quite proactive in this - putting aside a pot of money to connect most of Wales to fast broadband. Sadly the issue has become Open Reach the company that owns the physical network.
A fairly substantial sum of money was thrown at the problem and the website said the work on our exchange would be done by May, about 2 years ago. In fact there was a deal of digging and laying of fibre from the exchange right across the mountain. What there was not was a rush to connect. So when the Assembly money had been used up laying the main core hardware, all Open Reach needed to do was use their own money to connect properties to the line. Something they declined to do.
So we have teetered along with our old copper line, old being the operative phrase. It has snapped completely twice in the last 18 months. There are dodgy connections along the line and every time there is rain or wind the connection speeds drop. Since September we have had in total nearly a week of down time as a connection block somewhere between here and the top of the mountain has intermittently failed. Every time the engineers turn up, by a miracle we are getting great connection speeds. As soon as they leave it drops again.
But maybe not, today an engineer is due and the interweb is barely connected. Maybe this time the errant connector will be found. Or maybe not.
This is better now we resolved the total outage of yesterday. The net went down fully, no connection at all. Gwion meanwhile was saying nothing, normally he will get out of his room to investigate if the net fails. But of course his ADSL lead was connected and the web working. Investigations and it turned out the wifi was down, all on it's own with no help. No amount of button prodding and re starts would persuade it to come back on so eventually hard wire the lap top to the modem, get inside it's operating system and make it work again. Very weird, how did that happen? Much much later out the kitchen again, Mau Mau the cat has found a nice new warm place to sit......
And now for the update, Open Reach have found that a section of overhead cable is faulty and a line crew will have to turn out to replace about 5 sections of line. Hmmmm did I say something like that when one section of the line snapped in September, not this September of course the September before that. Mau Mau might as well make the router her permanent seat, then at least someone will be getting some use out of it.
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Hmm...MauFi!! Best of luck with the connections.
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