US Mirror Slowness SOLVED (goddamn squirrel)
All, Devs, The horrendous mirror slowness I've had with TW upgrades is SOLVED. Cable co. was out this morning and strung a new 200 ft. cable from the drop to the house. Upper insulation near the drop was gone and outer COAX shielding was partially chewed. Odd thing is it effected some areas of the globe worse than others. For whatever reason, number of hops, different routes, etc.. it effected RIPE addresses worse than most others. Cable company had previously said "no problems on their end". Guy today said, "no, your connection is hosed, I can see that on the screen". Getting competent tech-support is like Russian-Roulette anymore... Good news is mirror-chooser from the US is now working fine, and has been. This was the 3rd cable they have replaced from the drop to the house. Tree-rats are hell on aerial-coax.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 12-12-2024 02:20PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All, Devs,
The horrendous mirror slowness I've had with TW upgrades is SOLVED. Cable co. was out this morning and strung a new 200 ft. cable from the drop to the house. Upper insulation near the drop was gone and outer COAX shielding was partially chewed.
Odd thing is it effected some areas of the globe worse than others. For whatever reason, number of hops, different routes, etc.. it effected RIPE addresses worse than most others.
Cable company had previously said "no problems on their end". Guy today said, "no, your connection is hosed, I can see that on the screen". Getting competent tech-support is like Russian-Roulette anymore...
Good news is mirror-chooser from the US is now working fine, and has been. This was the 3rd cable they have replaced from the drop to the house. Tree-rats are hell on aerial-coax....
Next step, expandable foam application...let foam cure...cut with saw of some sort to form appearance. -Season Greetings.
On 12/12/24 2:55 PM, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
Next step, expandable foam application...let foam cure...cut with saw of some sort to form appearance. -Season Greetings.
Good idea, Only downside is they chew the cable on the telephone-pole end. Getting up there will be a bit of a challenge... It's about 24 feet up. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 12-12-2024 03:35PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 12/12/24 2:55 PM, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
Next step, expandable foam application...let foam cure...cut with saw of some sort to form appearance. -Season Greetings.
Good idea,
Only downside is they chew the cable on the telephone-pole end. Getting up there will be a bit of a challenge... It's about 24 feet up.
Cut branches away also if possible, tar paper may work better in emergency for colder weather. Foam may not expand well if it's cold.
On 12-12-2024 03:43PM, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
On 12-12-2024 03:35PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 12/12/24 2:55 PM, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
Next step, expandable foam application...let foam cure...cut with saw of some sort to form appearance. -Season Greetings.
Good idea,
Only downside is they chew the cable on the telephone-pole end. Getting up there will be a bit of a challenge... It's about 24 feet up.
Cut branches away also if possible, tar paper may work better in emergency for colder weather. Foam may not expand well if it's cold.
ok, put 3 foot wide metal around line pole up 6 feet to prevent climbing of squirrel to top.
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:43:00 -0600 -pj via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> :
On 12-12-2024 03:35PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 12/12/24 2:55 PM, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
Next step, expandable foam application...let foam cure...cut with saw of some sort to form appearance. -Season Greetings.
Good idea,
Only downside is they chew the cable on the telephone-pole end. Getting up there will be a bit of a challenge... It's about 24 feet up.
Cut branches away also if possible, tar paper may work better in emergency for colder weather. Foam may not expand well if it's cold.
Low amperage 220vac in an otherwise insulated criss-cross mesh under the outer insulation? Chewing into that feels like a baseball bat hit, no return customers.
From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:35:23 -0600 On 12/12/24 2:55 PM, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
Next step, expandable foam application...let foam cure...cut with saw of some sort to form appearance. -Season Greetings.
Good idea, Only downside is they chew the cable on the telephone-pole end. Getting up there will be a bit of a challenge... It's about 24 feet up. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Makes me glad we have in-ground utilities here. -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/
On 2024-12-12 22:56, Bob Rogers wrote:
From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:35:23 -0600
On 12/12/24 2:55 PM, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote: > Next step, expandable foam application...let foam cure...cut with saw of > some sort to form appearance. > -Season Greetings.
Good idea,
Only downside is they chew the cable on the telephone-pole end. Getting up there will be a bit of a challenge... It's about 24 feet up.
Makes me glad we have in-ground utilities here.
Where the rats and the water can get to them :-P -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)
From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:22:00 +0100 On 2024-12-12 22:56, Bob Rogers wrote:
Makes me glad we have in-ground utilities here.
Where the rats and the water can get to them :-P -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)x Nope; they all run in conduit. Which can break or leak, I suppose, but this is Nevada; water damage is rarely an issue. And rats? I can see a good-sized hawk soaring out my window right now. -- Bob
David C. Rankin 2024-12-12 15:35 (UTC-0600):
-pj wrote:
Next step, expandable foam application...let foam cure...cut with saw of some sort to form appearance. -Season Greetings.
Only downside is they chew the cable on the telephone-pole end. Getting up there will be a bit of a challenge... It's about 24 feet up.
Try a pellet gun. Squirrels love eating from bird feeders. If you can find any any more, and you have few or no local seed eating birds around, put some rat poison in a feeder near that pole, or on the pole. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
On 12/12/24 4:33 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Try a pellet gun.
Squirrels love eating from bird feeders. If you can find any any more, and you have few or no local seed eating birds around, put some rat poison in a feeder near that pole, or on the pole.
Chuckling..., I currently have a Gammo .177 cal (900 fps), a Springfield .22, a Daisy Red-Rider and a bat leaning in the corner next to the sliding glass door. Only problem is where the pole is sits a good 200 ft from the back door and it's hard to catch the squirrel activity in that corner. (north corner is worse, it's 435 feet from the door). The only time I catch activity at that pole is when you hear a sharp electrical "pop" and then a "thump" a few seconds later. I've had more than one squirrel manage to touch the transmission-line and ground (lightning) wire at the same time. Too late for me to do anything with it then -- but he won't be chewing anymore either. Best we can do is keep an eye on the throughput and call BS when the cable co. tries to tell me everything is good on their end. There are probably 50 trees (pines, oaks, maples, walnut, etc...) within 100 feet of that pole. Squirrels can get to the cable box with a short jump from any one of them. But, if I catch them up there, the pellet gun will come into play. (and while we are on that subject, Crossman Premier Hollow-Points are a good plinking pellet that you can actually find in-stock :) I'm just glad I can finally update TW in a sane period of time now. This has been a very slow deterioration in throughput and not consistent. No rhyme or reason, but some address blocks came though at their full upload speed. (usually 15-20 MBs). I don't have any download sites that serve at the full 300 MIbs (40 MBs) -- except speedtest.net will show the full 300 MIbs. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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