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« on: March 12, 2012, 07:41:20 AM » |
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Well my station was up for 48 days, a week before my vacation I decided to boot, just to clean up any memory issues, etc. All looked good, as I left for a week in Orlando. In Buffalo, waiting for my flight. I start getting my wxstatus emails saying nothing has uploaded for 30 minutes, then I get the 60 minute email, 90 minute email.... then voila it starts updating. Chalk it up to a 'planned' midday outage with my ISP. Day 5 of vacation, same thing. Similar time of day, but after several hours get worried. I noticed my web cams are also not updating, so I know its not the weather pc (as the cams are IP). Next morning and another 16 emails, I pop a note to my house sitter, and ask if they can "reboot" my router. They unplug, re-plug and it starts working. This thing runs 364 days a year without issue, how does it know I am 1600 miles away??  Andrew |
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DanS
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« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2012, 08:00:41 AM » |
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Murphy had to be involved!  You're lucky to have a house sitter you can rely on. With ours, if we're out and something like that happened I would rather take the loss of data then let our 'sitter' near anything involved. Easier to fix when I get back. She has the 'gift' of destroying anything she comes in contact with.  (damn good cook though!) Hope y'all had a good time in Orlando! |
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« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2012, 08:19:09 AM » |
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how does it know I am 1600 miles away??
Your 'system' is watching you via the webcams.
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« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2012, 08:23:58 AM » |
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ROTFL! Mackbig's system has a nickname, HAL !
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« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2012, 08:45:49 AM » |
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Good week down there. First three days in the nineties, then the cold front came through (remnants of the Tornado spawning front). Storms rumbled through at 6am Sunday, Temp dropped to 60's for the day, really windy but cleared up by noon. Wasnt too bad though, that became our "shopping" day.
Rest of week was upper 70's touching 80 a bit. But it was dry and windy, so never felt too hot. Had to time pool exit with a sunny break. Pool was nicely heated though. 20% humidity if Florida is odd for us. Our usual trip is in May. It was nice to be at Sea World in the 70's, usually we are sweating our you know what's off.
Seesaw weather at home. March 5, -14C, ( 7F). March 7, 17C (62F). Saturday we had 3cms of snow in an hour, sun came out most melted, then we got a few cm's of sn'hail. Sunday went skiing in the morning, by afternoon it was 17C and we were out biking. Crazy. Feel bad for the ski hills, its March break this week and temps 12-21C (50-70F). They have the snow, but people dont head north when its brown/green in the city. It'll be very slushy and soupy up there rest of the week.
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« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2012, 10:29:57 AM » |
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ROTFL! Mackbig's system has a nickname, HAL !
I was going to say somthing about Big Brother, but since he's from the Great White North, it would probably be the McKenzie Brothers, eh? Good day, eh! |
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« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2012, 10:40:44 AM » |
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I hear ya bro! When I buttoned up the mountain place last November, all was well - then like 3 days later the Supercrap (tm) died. Try getting into the Monashees THIS winter! Roads are closed every other day it seems.
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mackbig
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« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2012, 11:50:25 AM » |
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Even though this particular problem has only happened twice or maybe three times in several years, and actually this is a first on this router, as its my new gigabit router, so its only been in service since xmas.... I might consider putting a digital timer on it, and have it go off for a minute every day or every other day... and maybe just around vacation time.
Funny. Back in the days of wonky hi speed my brother-in-law used an analogue cheap timer to re-boot his parents cable modem and router each day. The smallest increment was 20 minutes (plastic tabs..) My wife told me that there internet would go down around 10am every day. It had been happening for weeks. The ISP could not figure it out. So I went by. Found his timer setup in the basement. He had originally set it for midnight, but after several power failures and a cheap clock mechanism the "off time" had move to mid morning from midnight. I removed the timer...
Andrew
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Garth Bock
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« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2012, 04:53:41 PM » |
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All of us knew you were going on vacation and we decided to have some fun.....
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« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2012, 04:55:54 PM » |
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ROTFL! Mackbig's system has a nickname, HAL !
No...its name is.....Proteus......or it is Colossus........ |
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« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2012, 05:21:29 PM » |
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Joshua.
"Greetings Professor Falken"
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« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2012, 03:05:56 AM » |
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I figure it to be like the watched pot doesn't boil scenario. I really can't remember one road trip when something didn't go wrong with the Wx system at The Fortress of Solitude. I've run the gamut from old cable modem taking it's last spin to the cable feed from the street ending up IN the street instead of my house and all things conceivable in between including that very rare WeatherLink scramble of data in the logs. Of course, it's never anything like a system failure (drive crash, etc) just those quick fix things - except for the cable being ripped down but then again, I WAS further away than usual for that one (NY vs Tampa). I could sit here for the rest of my life and nothing would go wrong but cross a couple of state lines? BAM! Sometime next month, I'm sure I'll be starting my own thread of this nature...  |
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« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2012, 01:31:36 PM » |
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It never fails when I go out of town something will quit working. Now that I have everything on a UPS (including the cable box and router) I've had very few problems like that though.
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« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2012, 10:25:37 AM » |
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I laughed when I read this, then went crap as I was off skiing for two days and the webcam went down. Since one of our local stations likes to use it, of course I got emails asking what was going on. Up for 3 months and the one time I leave it quits working.... it just figures.
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« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2012, 10:34:50 PM » |
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Well my station was up for 48 days, a week before my vacation I decided to boot, just to clean up any memory issues, etc.
All looked good, as I left for a week in Orlando.
Well, I just returned from being out for two weeks and, surprisingly enough, only one minor problem with the cams - two of three dropped off, giving all three the same pic. System kept chugging along!  AND nobody ran into anything on my property this time!  |
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