Rainy Days

[AMD Lover]

>>>>>YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THIS FIRST PARAGRAPH BUT IT GIVES GOOD BACKGROUND<<<<<

 

So like idk, a month ago lightning struck an apartment behind me. It blew the electrical panel doors off and fried all the wired internet devices.... and whether it went through the ground or through the phone line doesn't matter. It traveled to my house and completely melted the inside of the RJ11 jack, went to the ADSL modem, blew the front cover off of that (Oh it blew the ADSL filter into pieces), went from the modem to the first PC (6ft Ethernet cable) and completely melted that RJ45 jack and put a black spot behind the NIC on the motherboard frying the mobo. Then it went through the seconded patch cable (10ft) to a RJ45 jack in the wall. Traveled about 100ft across the house to my bedroom, running though a 100ft patch cable to my (Temporary) network switch, burnt that up and put scorch marks on my desk, came out of that through a (6ft) patch cable into another PC, frying only the NIC and leaving the PC operational and the only computer that survived was my custom built one.

 

 

ANYWAYS, None of that was needed. Every friggin time it rains my 12Mbps down shitty internet goes to like 2Mbps or less. Rn I'm getting like .98Mbps, it doesn't do this everytime it rains but a lot. Since the lightning strike also fried the box outside the house the line coming into the box was cut back and redone, a new box was installed (VERY NICE ONE!!!), new Cat 6 phone lines were put in, a HUGE lightning suppressor was put outside, all the grounds redone and dielectric grease put on everything. It looks great, CAT 6 throughout the house. The line from the box to the street was completely redone and new layed about 2yrs ago so everything is in great shape. So idk why my internet service is so shitty. If I call and complain it usually goes up within a day or two but otherwise my internet sucks.

 

If you want pictures of the damage and also the new Network Interface Box mention it in your comment.

[Enderman]

the only fix is to call the ISP and tell them the problem and ask them to fix it

slower internet speeds when raining is not normal

[The Flying Sloth]

The pictures sound cool

Anyways, sounds like it is your ISP's problem and  not a hardware one,

 

[AMD Lover]

12 minutes ago, The Flying Sloth said:

The pictures sound cool

Anyways, sounds like it is your ISP's problem and  not a hardware one,

 

Might have to wait for like an hour when I'm not trying to use the internet so I can upload them, hahaha

[SuperShermanTanker]

12 minutes ago, The Flying Sloth said:

The pictures sound cool

Anyways, sounds like it is your ISP's problem and  not a hardware one,

 

wow lightning can do some serious damage now I'm bolth happy and sad I don't have a hardwire and use wifi which works well enough for me and my 40 up and 40 down which seems to always gets throttled to 30 up and 30 down

[SuperShermanTanker]

25 minutes ago, AMD Lover said:

>>>>>YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THIS FIRST PARAGRAPH BUT IT GIVES GOOD BACKGROUND<<<<<

 

So like idk, a month ago lightning struck an apartment behind me. It blew the electrical panel doors off and fried all the wired internet devices.... and whether it went through the ground or through the phone line doesn't matter. It traveled to my house and completely melted the inside of the RJ11 jack, went to the ADSL modem, blew the front cover off of that (Oh it blew the ADSL filter into pieces), went from the modem to the first PC (6ft Ethernet cable) and completely melted that RJ45 jack and put a black spot behind the NIC on the motherboard frying the mobo. Then it went through the seconded patch cable (10ft) to a RJ45 jack in the wall. Traveled about 100ft across the house to my bedroom, running though a 100ft patch cable to my (Temporary) network switch, burnt that up and put scorch marks on my desk, came out of that through a (6ft) patch cable into another PC, frying only the NIC and leaving the PC operational and the only computer that survived was my custom built one.

 

 

ANYWAYS, None of that was needed. Every friggin time it rains my 12Mbps down shitty internet goes to like 2Mbps or less. Rn I'm getting like .98Mbps, it doesn't do this everytime it rains but a lot. Since the lightning strike also fried the box outside the house the line coming into the box was cut back and redone, a new box was installed (VERY NICE ONE!!!), new Cat 6 phone lines were put in, a HUGE lightning suppressor was put outside, all the grounds redone and dielectric grease put on everything. It looks great, CAT 6 throughout the house. The line from the box to the street was completely redone and new layed about 2yrs ago so everything is in great shape. So idk why my internet service is so shitty. If I call and complain it usually goes up within a day or two but otherwise my internet sucks.

 

If you want pictures of the damage and also the new Network Interface Box mention it in your comment.

I get 40 up and 40 down on my wifi and you are one lucky guy that it didn't fry the custom built pc cause those things (depending on whats in it) can be expensive

[AMD Lover]

1 minute ago, SuperShermanTanker said:

I get 40 up and 40 down on my wifi and you are one lucky guy that it didn't fry the custom built pc cause those things (depending on whats in it) can be expensive

Yeah, I guess it found every computer except mine an easier path to ground. Also I think it fried the switch and therefore protected my computer.

[brwainer]

That's quite a story. Several of our apartment compexes in Florida, Mississippi, and Texas have had pretty devestating lightning strikes - our company record is 46 switches ($900+ each), 128 APs ($400-$600 each), and a reported 36 resident devices. That was multiple lightning strikes in the same storm.

 

Regardless of how well the new lines and equipment have been installed, if it slows down when it rains that means that somewhere there is a spot that is not sealed or protected properly. The fact that it doesn't happen with every rain (I think that's what you meant) can be simply due to differences in the speed and direction of the wind, causing water to not be able to get into wherever the leak is. And it speediing up in a day or two is consistent with the water drying up.

 

I would ask your ISP if they can do a remote line test or pull the signal metrics from your modem when there is no issue, and then have then do the same thing when there is an issue. That would prove whether or not the issue is related to a line problem.