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Is the internet being monkeyed with?

C

ChiefEngineer

I use Barix to feed remote locations. The Reflector service has been uber reliable. Until a week ago.

I use 4 carriers in Indiana. In each case the service is tied to a dedicated internet feed. No computers or other bandwidth grabbers. I am tied to 4 states with internet devices and have been happy as a pig in , until recently.

In one town I had recurring death of decoder (as I get emails when the service goes down) and replaced the box. Immediately I started having issues with town 2 even.

The encoder has had only 4 issues and these have been within the last two weeks and not the preceding year. The decoder issues are not tied to encoder problems. I set all my decoders to longest buffer (1.2 sec) and the loss of decoder I saw via email was not something that was heard on the air. Because this is now rotating with decoders around the state I note this is symptomatic of a problem. I have identical broadband feeds at the send end with 2 carriers.

I ask if anyone else has been noticing any internet related oddities.
 
You might check the Barix forums. Think I recall emails about their reflector service being moved to a 3rd party & going paid. Forget when the date was, but maybe it has something to do with that.
 
Barix changed servers with the same company May 31, 2011. Service has been great from that date and problem started recently.
 
There are many possible answers. With the types of errors you're seeing, I'd pay particular attention to power and heat. You do have them plugged into a UPS with line conditioning, right? And they're not in a particularly hot environment, right?

It's summer, and that means construction season. Lots of ISPs are reworking their networks to handle greater demand down the road. They'll never admit it, but it often means increasing the number of people sharing bandwidth through one Internet connection while they're working on other Internet connections. Sometimes they're switching around links that have been shut down due to other types of construction - like rebuilding roads and bridges.

Another answer could be that there's simply more traffic. Summer used to mean that traffic backed down as people spent more time away from computers. Now it means that people spend more time on mobile devices instead of computers. The attendant problems with line maintenance, system cooling, power fluctuations, severe weather interruptions, etc. all take a toll on the entire infrastructure.
Do you have the same ISP at home that you have at the office? Have you seen similar problems? A tracert may tell you where the bottleneck is. Have you changed your security or authorization software and/or method lately? On the PC side, some virus programs have gotten very bloated lately, and slow access and systems significantly. I'll no longer use some old favorites like Computer Associates or AVG. They impact systems much more than they used to. Microsoft Security Essentials works quite well, and teams nicely with Malwarebytes to provide an acceptable level of protection.
 
It could be an operating system update; much like when I quit allowing updates for Win2K.

I'll always believe Micro(I admire any man who names his company after his sex organ)Soft was intentionally bombing windows 2000 in order to move u$ers$ on to their XP operating $y$tem.
 
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