[time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Thu Sep 2 13:36:40 UTC 2010


Hi

If your WiFi is at 2.4 GHz it could very easily be a microwave oven messing things up.

Bob



On Sep 2, 2010, at 3:12 AM, d.seiter at comcast.net wrote:

> I used to have a huge problem with my Comcast link going down (in Silicon Valley!), but they seem to be MUCH more reliable than a few years ago. The problem now appears to be very short outages, which seem to be caused by local cell interference with my wifi network. Still trying to figure it out. (ie- the stoppages in a streaming netflix movie appeared to be sometimes linked to local cell texting traffic) Go figure... 
> 
> Dave 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Attila Kinali" <attila at kinali.ch> 
> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com> 
> Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:36:56 AM 
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme 
> 
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:25:55 -0400 
> "Bob Camp" <lists at rtty.us> wrote: 
> 
>> I suspect that it's not an unusual stance. If it is common, it would be 
>> something to think long and hard about in a mission critical timing setup. 
> 
> I don't know about the US, but in Europe such a stance would cost 
> an ISP most of its customers, hence they cannot allow to say 
> "oh, it's not web, we dont guarranty anything if you are not using the web". 
> It would be literally their death sentence. 
> 
> Usually, the ISPs here are more or less responsive on any issue a customer 
> has. The smaller ones better than the bigger ones. Most probably because 
> they know if the customer doesnt get what he wants, he'll switch to an other. 
> 
> 
> Attila Kinali 
> -- 
> Why does it take years to find the answers to 
> the questions one should have asked long ago? 
> 
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