Hardware & Technical Can hot weather cause Internet connection problems?

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It's currently scorching here on the English south coast.

Since the temperature rise, my powerline connection has struggled to stay connected.

I know that wires contract & expand with the temperature. Could this be causing problems with the powerline?

I've switched to WiFi for now.
 

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Rob At Work said:
I put my recycling bin out today, so global warming should slow down now and everything will return to normal
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Okay, I see the humour, but this is a genuine inquiry. I've never claimed to be well versed in how the Internet works.
 

Raino

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its holiday season, most electrons are on vacation ;)

na, joke aside, the only thing could be overheating units, mostly by blocked airflow
 
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MickyG1982

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To be honest, it could be anything.

Could be heat, could be a power hungry appliance, could be a problem with your house wiring or an adapter that is on its way out. Interference from other sources

Also increased Internet usage on your network or by others using your Internet supplier.

Literally anything you can think of
 

TorTorden_VR

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MickyG1982 said:
To be honest, it could be anything.

Could be heat, could be a power hungry appliance, could be a problem with your house wiring or an adapter that is on its way out. Interference from other sources

Also increased Internet usage on your network or by others using your Internet supplier.

Literally anything you can think of
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Yup, could be anything, anywhere.

Or some switch down the line is having some heat issues in the connection point.
I can easily imagine some of those boxes become as hot as cars out in the sun, so 50c+.

As for atmoshperics, I once was at a school where the wifi would only connect when the sun was shielded by clouds.
I would be sitting around, checking emails whenever cloud passed over :p
 

Tomtom

Tomtom
I'm guessing that, in an attempt to keep cool in this sizzling heat, you have fans running. Unfortunately electric motors tend to put a lot of noise into the mains supply which many powerline adapters hate.
Sometimes one can attenuate the interference by only plugging the fans (or anything with a motor) into extension leads, but YMMV.
 

Chong-su

Chong-su
I don't know there but in Spain all cables and fibers are underground ( approx 80/120cm ) and they arrive in the houses passing through channels or inside the walls always buried. Even if there you reach 50 degree, at cables doesn't mind. It is more realistic think that the problem is in your router, too high temperature could cause more or less Noise Margin / Line Attenuation . Those 2 are the big problems for internet.
You wrote you switched on wifi but I don't really understand ( maybe because to my ielts 4.5 ) because with or without wifi, if the problem is in the cable ( from the internet central station to you for example ) you should have the same problem. Say that, the problem could be not in your internet connection or in your router but in your lan cable ( what you use from pc to router ) which is of poor quality and could be generate problems. Try to change with a new one ( Cat 6 maybe ).

Before of that check the internet status than switch off the router for approx 1 minute and swith on again, wait and check the new status.

Hope to been helpful
 
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Strangepork

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Un1k0rn said:
It's currently scorching here on the English south coast.

Since the temperature rise, my powerline connection has struggled to stay connected.

I know that wires contract & expand with the temperature. Could this be causing problems with the powerline?

I've switched to WiFi for now.
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Maybe the Engineers in your local service have sunstroke?
 

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Well, I switched to WiFi and I'm staying connected. I'll take that.
 

Morbad

Morbad
I would check your modem's status/diagnostic pages to see the connection quality, which would at least give a hint as to where the problem is.

Rob At Work said:
Atmospheric conditions would be more likely to affect wireless connections than hard wired ones in all seriousness
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Thermal expansion/contraction, humidity, or animals attacking cables can certainly cause issues with cable, DSL, or fiber as well.
 

V'larr

V'larr
I use powerline too. Sometimes I have to just unplug and re-plug the socket in the wall - I reckon sometimes static builds up in the lines or whatnot and it needs to be 'reset' thusly.

Additionally, thanks to a tip I found before here on the forums, I find my connection is more stable (over LONG periods of time) if I run a CMD prompt that pings my router with 1 byte endlessly; I actually made it into a .bat file to run every time I start up my PC. The command is:

ping -t -l 1 {your router local IP goes here without the brackets}
 

AlSki

AlSki
I used to use powerline, I could work all day over citrix (i.e. which requires constant connectivity) without any problems, then switch to ED and have a few dropouts an hour. ED seems very sensitive to any issues, either matchmaking or transaction server errors usually. A deft flick power on and off with my toe under the desk would be enough to fix it. Sometimes I could even see when the network connectivity seemed to be slow entering/leaving supercruise and reset the powerline in time for the connection to re-establish before time out.

Having upgraded to nice shiny new motherboard with built in wifi then everything works better.
 
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