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geoschmo said:
Yes, I know Romulus. That's the same link you gave me earlier. It doesn't recognize my address. Not even to tell me the service isn't available. It doesn't like the street or zipcode I'm putting in. I found a service map on broadbandreports.com that says FIOS isn't available anywhere in Ohio. Not suprising. I guess it's fairly new and they would want to start out hitting the major markets first.
My only options appear to be cable and DSL. DSL for me isn't a good option though because I'm over 15,000 feet from the nearest CO. At my old house where the PBW server was previously it ran well on DSL, but I was much closer to a CO there.
Since I've installed the script on the server we haven't had a single outage except when I took it down on purpose last night to test the script. That's pretty good compared to the last few weeks. I'm wondering if the script checking the line occasionally is somehow stabalizing the signal. I don't know if that's even possible, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.
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I work for Verizon.
BUT, the reliabilty is really there. Its a shame you can't get fios, yet. I would say you were loosing connection when no one had visited the website in a fixed time period. The ISP is dropping your connection on purpose thinking its a dead link with no one there. They do that to save money and to give more bandwith to other users by taking yours away as they think you aren't home or something like that. The script is accessing the web and think of it like moving the mouse so the screensaver won't kick in. That brief access resets the timer that has been timing you out.
** Edit ** Oh, DSL and FiOS don't do that. The nature of the two is somewhat like a T1 and once the loop/connection is made it stays there. I will say DSL will loose performance over severals days without resetting the IP, BUT it remains connected the whole time.
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