The site’s been up and down, mostly down, the last two days. The reason is simple: my DSL connection has been mostly down the last two days.
Why, I don’t know.The only thing I can possibly think of is we got some unseasonably warm weather for October, and temperatures in the house topped 80 degrees. The DSL modem doesn’t seem to like heat very much.
I set the DSL modem on an unused piece of Lionel track to raise it up higher in the air and get better air circulation on all four sides.
Powering down, letting it cool off, and then powering back up seems to have helped, especially now that I have the temperature back down to 73 degrees in the house.
We’ll see what happens. Southwestern Bell swore this Speedstream 5360 modem was less finicky than my old Alcatel 1000, but I don’t know. I think both of them can have their moments. Maybe I need to open up the Speedstream and kludge a fan in there, since it seems to have its worst problems when it gets warm.
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Might be the weather too. We’ve had some pretty heavy rains this week at times, and yesterday we had some really stong winds and a short, but really hard rain last night.