[Year 12 IT Apps] Hardware Failure

[ken price]

We have a Telstra junction pit on our home boundary. Internet performance
used to drop away during heavy rain and for about a week after. Call
Telstra, a few days later technical support  turns up, all tests OK,
everything is OK till next rainstorm. Repeat until annoyed.

Eventually they tracked it down. The junction pit had a huge ants' nest in
it, which acted like a giant sponge when it rained. It partially shorted
out the ADSL cable terminals, giving rise to ridiculous crosstalk and
signal loss. Took about a week to dry out.

The Telstra Guy Who Removes Ants Nests was in Brisbane, and working his way
around the country it seems, so I got a stick and slowly dragged it apart
and  out. A half-can of insect killer later - problem solved!

It was the only time I've debugged a hole in the ground.

kp


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Bruce Riley <BRiley at studygroup.com> wrote:

>  Hi Catherine****
>
> This reminded me of years ago of another hardware failure – the offending
> desktop fan had a snake inside it!****
>
> Cheers****
>
> Bruce****
>
> ** **
>
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