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Unless you put your Airport on the roof, the fault lies in the system that delivers broadband from your Internet Service Provider. All sorts of things can go wrong here, from somebody putting a spade through an optical cable, to all the switching needed to send and boost signals down wires and distribute it to end users. Damp and cold can affect those switches.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 11:59:19 AM EST
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The phone line is dead too. So, yeah, soggy cables or something.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 12:41:14 PM EST
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Oh theres a whole range of stories to be told about that, ranging from Road mnders  putting a JCB bucket through one of the main cables covering half of south Wales, to employees of a certain well known UK telecom company who cut through armoured optical data fibres to use as pull-throughs for new telephone cables.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Jan 5th, 2010 at 01:21:48 PM EST
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