Blame the weather ?

silverclaws

Senior Retro Guru
You know in this day and age of all this technology we rely so heavily on, a bit of rain and wind can bring the whole lot crashing to a stand still.

My internet has been suffering of late, so I contact my provider who tell me BT has issued an MBORC incident ( Matter beyond our reasonable control), the recent high winds have damaged the overhead network and the rain has flooded the ground level stuff.

What's the point ?

Britain is known for unpredictable weather, it rains a lot here, anyone could tell anyone that, even the foreign tourists know it, but we still have important communicational installations flooded by rain water.

Or is it excuse mongering because of the fact that the cheapest job has been done to protect profit and profit is to be protected at all costs, that cost being the customer who can't go anywhere else.

Now, I have just lost a blog I was writing, I noticed the slowing connection and tried to save my work, but lost it, but what I am doing isn't important, but those in business that depend or rely on the internet, what they do is important, so why are we relying on this unpredictable and flakey technology that weather not even severe can bring to a halt ?

Yes it s windy out there, a few showers and sun, so fast cycling weather, but life is continuing in all other respects except the internet dropping out rather a lot these days, where is the fault, machine , router, connection, provider or BT ?

And given our flakey technology are we riding for a fall ?
 
Try soaking your network cable in a bath overnight and then see if it works.

Not easy at all to keep things ticking along when we have huge amounts of rain.
 
If I had a waterproof network cable I might, mind if the telecoms were waterproof, they might not be having the problems they apparently do have with what our country does best.

Sure I know nothing is one hundred percent waterproof, water will always get in, but how much is being compromised by water for a communications network to keep failing and if it keeps failing then surely something is wrong and if so why is the fail not being quickly sorted out so fails become a rarity, as lets face it, we have always had rain so whatever industry starts in this country, they are starting with known conditions.
 
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