Bullmax
Member
Anyone else notice their feed disconnecting or is it on my end?
Every year around The Holidays people experience faaaaaar more disconnects than at other times during the year. It's likely that the Internet, your ISP, Amazon AWS, and who knows what else are seeing significantly more traffic at this time of year than other times.
More traffic = more latency = more disconnects.
Happy Holidays!
Peter
K1PGV
This is correct.
Further, disconnects sometimes happens at other times at no fault with RR.
My ISP sometimes just go up & down that I cannot control.
Other reasons can include modum & or router glitches etc.
Oh, ABSOLUTELY correct.
My home ISP (admittedly, a pretty small one) just decides to shut my service down without warning when they need to do maintenance. Sometimes it's down for a few minutes, sometimes an hour or two. Or they'll suddenly decide to reboot their DNS servers... all at the same time. Bastards.
Tier 1 ISPs (that is, the ISPs that provide and connect directly to the internet backbone) even go out of commission every once in a while, ESPECIALLY during the load created at this time of year. For example, Sprint last week lost connectivity for many sites in the North East -- the T1s at the company for which I work were down for just over 45 minutes.
Peter
K1PGV
However scannercast seems to either lock up the computer or not allow me to browse the internet... but it seems scannercast has some unresolved programming issues.