I’ve been having connectivity problems off and on today
I’m pretty sure that my connectivity problems are connected to the fact that so many people are at home and online. Periodically I get thrown off, and then unpredictably my service comes on again. Anyway, most of the time I’m online, and I hope that continues.
So for the duration, if every now and then it seems as though my posting pace is a bit off, you’ll know why. At least, that’s my excuse.
Same here in SoCal.
WiFi connectivity disappears for periods of 5 minutes.
But the 3G and 4G smart phone connections are solid
Personally, I blame Russia, Ukraine, or Trump. It is difficult to keep up with the villain of the hour.
Interesting!
Since working from home began a couple of weeks ago I have had no connection problems until today!
That you are also having problems makes me wonder if, even though we are in different states, if there is some connection to our loss of connections?
charles:
Well, we are all just one big happy internet family. 🙂
I think that tons of places are having connectivity problems all at once, and for the same reason.
Me too, especially in the late evening.
I’ve been feeling a bit detached.
But the internet has stayed stable here.
I have not had any connectivity issues, but in northern NV, the number of people on line now is probably not much different than it was in December of last October.
Parker: You don’t think it’s Nancy Pelosi?
Very steady here but I’m in a modest size town in Butte County California near Paradise and the network has been beefed up all around here since then. I’ve noticed that Youtube can seem deprecated and the feeds from Amazon as well. Hulu seems to be stable.
Here in Northeastern Illinois high-priced Comcast land connectivity seems normal. I suppose I should get out one of the internet speed tools on my desktop. Which has a cat6 Ethernet cable direct to our interface box.
Right now, as usual, I’m visiting Neo on my iPad through what is supposed to be the fastest WiFi port on that interface box. As I wrote no iss .
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…… Hahahahaha – a very old and lame networking joke back from when I labored in the salt mines.
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A shopping report from an evening trip through the local grocery store. SWMBO thought we ought to try some time when those batty old boomer geezers – just like us – weren’t cluttering the aisles with their riding carts and oxygen tanks. VBG
We figured if it was too crowded or not well stocked we’d just go tomorrow morning.
With the exception of paper goods – paper towels, Kleenex, and toilet paper – everything else looked to be back to normal.
Dairy, frozen food, breads, canned fruits, baking goods all normal. Supposedly there has been a run on baking yeasts and mayonnaise. They were pretty much fully stocked.
Cold and flu meds available but limited to one box per checkout.
I’d say there were about 20 lost souls wondering around.
Mostly younger single males; Dads maybe doing ANYTHING to get away from their kids? Only one older female was had a cloth face mask and it was hanging around her neck and not over her face.
No gloves on anyone EXCEPT the stocking clerks. Who were also wearing disposable face masks. Also the clerks and baggers had on both gloves and disposable face masks.
We can sleep in tomorrow! Yeah!
Ordinary Internet is OK, but I have been having problems logging into my e-mail.
We had issues Saturday afternoon – was everyone streaming reruns of some sports contest to simulate reality?
Internet out here in the boonies has never been robust, but it’s actually been at least as reliable in the last month as it ever was before, for which I am profoundly grateful. We had a bad hurricane strike in 2017 in which we lost phone, internet, and satellite connection for weeks (no cable here). Even FedEx and UPS quit delivering for a month or more, and the local Post Office was closed for months. The only way to get packages was to go to the next county at 8am and stand in line. Even so, at least we could drive 50 miles and shop for most necessities (no generators or chainsaws, but food was available), because the damage was local. Disconnection and supply-line disruptions still make me jumpy, especially when they’re nationwide, even worldwide.
Well, does the lack of recent posting by Neo indicate a deeper problem?
Yeah, Russia or China trying to censor Neo.
Just realized something about Covid..
since the deaths are mostly in the older, and co-morbidity range
you can think of it as hastening what was already happening
ie. people who may die in a few years of high blood pressure, diabetes, old age, etc… are dying earlier…
so your going to see after this, the stats on the bad things go down as there will be fewer people who will die from those things as covid culls the herd so to speak
Texan99 – yeah, that was a problem, but all you did was go back to what our parents were doing as a matter of course, barring the USPS closure.
I remember driving from my grandparents’ very small Texas town to the county seat for what we today would consider basic shopping other than minimal groceries and farm supply (the local dry goods store — it was called that on the sign — did carry comic books, however; I read my first Spider-man standing in the aisle, as we couldn’t afford such frippery — he was battling the Sandman for the first time).
Florida is already gaming out what to do about social distancing in hurricane shelters.