Posted by Goose on March 02, 2012 at 20:30:59 from (173.190.237.126):
My Internet happens to be working at the moment. I have wireless service with the transmitter on top of a grain elevator five and a half miles away and a reciever on top of our house.
For the last week, it's hardly worked at all. Yesterday, the company replaced the antenna on top of the elevator as part of a planned upgrade. No improvement on my part.
Called in this morning, and the manager spent the biggest part of the day in my office trying to get it to work. He replaced the reciever on the roof of my house and had a stronger signal than he even expected. At the power supply under my desk, it still just fades in and out. He plugged in his laptop with the same result. That eliminated the possibility of the problem being in my computer. We'd already bypassed the wireless router that sends the signal to my wife's computer in the next room with no change.
I asked the manager if the problem could be the cable between the reciever on the roof and the power supply under my desk. He mumbled, "That could be a possibility", and continued what he was doing. Apparently he didn't think it was much of a possibility.
We'd already replaced the power supply, and bypassed the router, sending the signal directly to my computer only.
When he left this afternoon about 4:30, he said, "See what it does over the weekend, and if you don't see me or hear from me by 9:00 Monday morning, call me". He said that over the weekend he'd think it through and talk to some other people.
That cable is the only thing left that hasn't been replaced or eliminated as a problem in the entire system. After years of trouble shooting avionic systems in jet fighter planes in the Marine Corps, I'm aware of how easy it is to overlook the obvious on a problem.
Guess we'll see what happens over the weekend and on Monday.
BTW, the system worked great for several years until it began acting up intermittently last fall, so it's not like it's something new and untried.
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