Subj : Various Things
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Barry Martin
Date : Fri Jun 12 2020 09:56:00


Hi Daryl!

 BM> Appears you are ahead of schedule: you were planning on being back
 BM> on-line by the tenth; this is the eighth. :)
 DS>   Yesterday, I ended up being offline much of the day due to 3
 DS> issues:
 DS> 1) Internet: The Xfinity connection/modem kept being reset.

Doesn't sound right unless....  I don't have experience with Xfinity
but my Mother has the service in NH.  She has mentioned the very rare 
problem where 'the box' has problems,

I've had issues where the DSL here connects and disconnects endlessly.  
Seems to be an issue at the Central Office down the hill or whatever 
they call the injection point in Davenport (about five miles from the 
house).

OK, I did a bit of Googling with 'xfinity internet keeps disconnecting'.
Firefox also suggested a few other words like "resetting", etc.  If it's
constant problem I'd start doing some checking based on the various
suggestions.  Did see where one suggestion was for faulty wiring --
makes and breaks the connection when the wind blows or birdie sits on
the drop and so moves the coax.

I had a DSL problem shortly after subscribing: connection would 
essentially fade/slow down, drop out randomly.  Found out I needed to 
test for "ATM": if that signal number is in one area the problem is 
local (user), if the number is in another area the problem is with the 
provider.                           

Essentially constantly pestered the phone company with my statistics and
test results (at one time I ran a line from the gateway to the DEMARC on
the side of the house, connecting directly to their drop, thus 
eliminating _all_ of the house).  They eventually moved my connection 
from one computer in the CO to another.  No more issues!  (So the 
problem was their stinkin' computer!!)

Back to you: And if the problem occurs once every five or six months or 
so might be more their computers having to relearn to talk to each other
after an update.


 DS> 2) Thunderstorms: The first round was between 9am and 12 noon,
 DS> and a second round, with the cold front, were between 9pm and 12
 DS> midnight.

Paging Mr. Franklin,  Mr, Ben Franklin....


 DS> 3) MAJOR UPGRADE with a Windows 10 Update. The update
 DS> check began at 3pm, and was not done for 7 hours.

You really need to subsribe to a connection faster than 1 Mbps!  With 
the Xfinity issues I'm starting to wonder if there is noise on your 
line?  That would cause a ton of resends and so slow your Windows Update
download to a crawl (like my DSL issue years ago).  

I didn't see where anyone was complaining on the Update taking all day. 
I had more paid attention to the comments on SpiceWorks as opposed to
ZDNet.  So maybe start checking to see how to test not only for download
and uploads speeds but line quality (signal:noise, etc.)


                        ¯                          ®
                        ¯   Barry_Martin_3@        ®
                        ¯                 @Q.COM   ®
                        ¯                          ®


.... June 4, 1977:  The VHS videocassette format is introduced .
--- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47
 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA

--- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462
 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1)

.