January 15, 2003
It works better if you give it a kick.
If you happened to notice that this site (or any of the others I happen to host out of the rack beside the washing machine in my basement) was a bit tardy serving pages over the past few days, you weren’t alone. It seems that my ADSL modem had decided to throttle down on the outbound stream of bits, leaving the inbound calls alone. This explains why requests were answered promptly, but the goods were often delivered late or not at all. The issue was confirmed through a few FTP trials where several hundred thousand bytes of data were routinely uploaded without issue, but couldn’t be downloaded from the very same machine. Further support of the reason the “A” in ADSL stands for “asymmetric” and not “ass-hauling”. Fortunately, the situation was corrected with nothing more than a yank of the power from said modem. Everyone is feeling much better now, thank you. I wish something as simple as cycling the power would make me perk up…
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