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I wonder if anyone knows what's causing this little problem?
We pay for the best broadband our service provider has to offer. They describe it as super-fast etc etc, all the bells and whistles. However, I keep getting small blips in service at almost regular intervals, and this has happened whichever quality of service we've used.
I cannot go a full hour without my broadband being interrupted, just enough to throw out whatever I'm doing, but not long enough to warrant getting up and doing something else. I can't watch an episode of a tv show without a blip at some point, I can't play an on-line game without getting booted just as I'm getting into it, I can't write a long forum post without having the worry of a shut down the moment I press send, I can get shut-off while listing items on ebay, not knowing what's actually gone on sale and also disrupting my ending time pattern.
I'll hear this slight churning from my pc tower, the dreaded circle of doom appears on my screen, a small yellow triangle appears inside my taskbar internet icon, the PC tower churns some more, I have to wait between 30 seconds and 90 seconds, and everything is back to normal.
Most of the time this can be first world problems, but because of it's persistency, every day, every hour (randomly, not a specific time), never ceasing, it's like a dripping tap torture, each drip more frustrating than the last, and then, every now and then, it disrupts something really important, like missing an auction I'd waited all week for, or snapping me out of a really atmospheric movie at a crucial moment, all emotional build-up destroyed by the time I get back etc etc. It's kind-of insanity inducing. It actually prevents me from playing some on-line games because there's no way I can complete the game, such as various multi-player activities, which is verging on a human rights violation in the gaming world, in that I am physically prevented from competing.
There's a chance it could be something wrong with my tower. There's a chance it could be something wrong with my broadband service. There's a chance it could mean my system's virused/hacked/under surveillance. There's a chance it could be that my software has trouble reading too much data and is self-knotted somehow.
What's your experience of why this might keep happening?
We pay for the best broadband our service provider has to offer. They describe it as super-fast etc etc, all the bells and whistles. However, I keep getting small blips in service at almost regular intervals, and this has happened whichever quality of service we've used.
I cannot go a full hour without my broadband being interrupted, just enough to throw out whatever I'm doing, but not long enough to warrant getting up and doing something else. I can't watch an episode of a tv show without a blip at some point, I can't play an on-line game without getting booted just as I'm getting into it, I can't write a long forum post without having the worry of a shut down the moment I press send, I can get shut-off while listing items on ebay, not knowing what's actually gone on sale and also disrupting my ending time pattern.
I'll hear this slight churning from my pc tower, the dreaded circle of doom appears on my screen, a small yellow triangle appears inside my taskbar internet icon, the PC tower churns some more, I have to wait between 30 seconds and 90 seconds, and everything is back to normal.
Most of the time this can be first world problems, but because of it's persistency, every day, every hour (randomly, not a specific time), never ceasing, it's like a dripping tap torture, each drip more frustrating than the last, and then, every now and then, it disrupts something really important, like missing an auction I'd waited all week for, or snapping me out of a really atmospheric movie at a crucial moment, all emotional build-up destroyed by the time I get back etc etc. It's kind-of insanity inducing. It actually prevents me from playing some on-line games because there's no way I can complete the game, such as various multi-player activities, which is verging on a human rights violation in the gaming world, in that I am physically prevented from competing.
There's a chance it could be something wrong with my tower. There's a chance it could be something wrong with my broadband service. There's a chance it could mean my system's virused/hacked/under surveillance. There's a chance it could be that my software has trouble reading too much data and is self-knotted somehow.
What's your experience of why this might keep happening?
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