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To: library user
“Something else I forgot to mention: whenever it gets light outside is when the internet gets slower. At 3am when I get up for work, I can do pretty much whatever I want. Browsing is fast as hell then.”

That is a dish issue (weak signal), either dish pointing or obstruction
(trees etc.).

Time to call your provider.

34 posted on 09/19/2010 6:40:10 AM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: DaveTesla

I’ve called them many times.

The tech guy has been out here twice recently. He has no idea what the problem is.

He said it’s *possible* that a tree in the distance is in the way, but I said that the tree is in the same spot at 3am as it is at 3pm, so why a slow to no connection at 3pm but a fine connection at 3am? He had no answer to that.

The dish is already on top of my house which is two stories high and he said maybe dig a new hole in the ground and put in a 55-60 foot pole instead.

If I was convinced a tree was in the way, I probably would do that, but the evidence seems to prove otherwise.

There have been instances over the past month - for two or three hours at a time - when I can get on during the day and the speed is flying, but most of the time it’s next to nothing.

And I take note of what the weather is like when the speed is fast and it doesn’t seem to matter.


37 posted on 09/19/2010 6:47:49 AM PDT by library user
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