I spent years on adsl and there were some things that affected the connection besides heavy traffic at certain times.
Because it was adsl it was using the old copper phone lines in the ground. Some of those cables were still the old type with wax paper outer, so if water got into a pit somewhere and actually got to the paper it would "wick" along the cable and rot the copper :sick:
If something like that happened it would take ages for repair crews to figure out what needed to be replaced where. Usually they would just swap you over to a spare line (if available) to see if it was better.
Summer, the dslam setup at the local exchange would sometimes struggle with traffic on really hot days (around 40c or even lower than that if it was consistently excessively hot for days and nights on end).
Yeah it has AC but it's in a fecking tin shed with no trees or anything around it for shade.
Stupid :rolleyes:
Ever since I changed to fixed wireless it has been so much better. Speeds are way higher than anything possible on adsl anyway, and the only times it stops working is when