Published on : 2026-08-20 10:35
For the last three days, things have been a little...
unreliable around here.
The culprit was the old modem.
Every 5-10 minutes or so, it would either reset itself completely,
or decide that resetting was too much effort and simply lose
internet connectivity for 30-60 seconds. Naturally, this made the
home network about as reliable as a coin toss.
After enough frustration, 2 or 3 phone calls to my ISP, and my
eyes getting tired of looking at the modem lights every now and
then, I replaced the modem with a new one. It has a HUGE problem
that the old one did not have: the Feng Shui problem:
the new modem is WHITE 🤮.
My almost entirely black homelab ( with a bit of grey from Tiny )
now has a bright white plastic box. I punished it by putting in on
the bottom row of the rack with the slack from all the cables.
(IMG) the new WHITE modem
Even if it's white, the new modem has now been running for the
last 20 hours without a single problem. Even better, Uptime Kuma
has reported no errors during that time.
At this point, I'm cautiously optimistic that the problem is
actually solved. Famous last words, I know.
Did anyone notice?
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There is something funny about having an unreliable internet
connection when your website is mostly aimed at the Small Web.
The main site at sava.rocks is focused on things like Gemini,
finger and Gopher, so I assume there aren't exactly thousands of
people hammering the website every minute. Which means that,
despite the service being intermittently unavailable for the last
three days, I'm pretty sure almost nobody noticed.
Somewhere out there, there might be one person who tried to read
a blog post, got a connection error, shrugged, and went back to
doing something else.
If they even noticed that is.
Anyway, the modem is replaced, Uptime Kuma is happy, and the
network has been behaving itself for 20 hours.
Long may the uptime continue.
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