Hardware & Technical Sudden & Unexpected Internet loss

[Beachlight7]

Poll should have "zero or none" option instead of "never".
Never means at no time in the past or future; not ever. It overrules the specific one week time frame.

 

[SnowGhost]

Poll should have "zero or none" option instead of "never".
Never means at no time in the past or future; not ever. It overrules the specific one week time frame.

Yeah, you're right. But it's a minor difference. And what is meant is clear from the context of the question.

I"ll accept that 'never' will be accepted to mean "at no time, without end". But in common useage never is often time limited, even if it is incorrect.

So .... take the 'never' statement and mentally change to to something like "I have not lost internet connectivity in the past week".

 

[DigitalDuck]

But in common useage never is often time limited, even if it is incorrect.

As seen in the phrase, "never in a million years".

 

[SnowGhost]

As seen in the phrase, "never in a million years".

A perfect example.

 

[Beachlight7]

I'll concede that.
Maybe I'm confused about its actual usage in English.
What is the point in saying "Never in a Million years", when you can just say "never". They both mean the same, apart from never in a million years is in fact weaker, as it gives the opportunity for something given a million and one years to occur. Where if you just said never, that means...indisputably never.
The dictionary also gives an example "they had never been camping in their lives.".
Why have that phrase when "they had never been camping." is better.

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

I'll concede that.
Maybe I'm confused about its actual usage in English.
What is the point in saying "Never in a Million years", when you can just say "never". They both mean the same, apart from never in a million years is in fact weaker, as it gives the opportunity for something given a million and one years to occur. Where if you just said never, that means...indisputably never.
The dictionary also gives an example "they had never been camping in their lives.".
Why have that phrase when "they had never been camping." is better.

Human psychology - "Never", in terms of time is not comprehendible whilst "not in a million years" is acceptable to people as 1 year is understood. Probably the same reasons why petrol prices are advertised as 139.9p/L and not 140p/L, and commodity prices are £9.99 and not £10 when the difference is negligible.

 

[Firestarter]

My connection used to suck but I read some advice to leave it switched on all the time. Since I did that it only rarely drops.

 

[Dave Leestir]

Scope

The poll question defines the (temporal) scope: "in the past week".

Are the people arguing against the word "never" going to insist that not a single packet should have been dropped, even though it would have been re-transmitted and the user wouldn't have noticed?

Also, I think I can validly state that I never played Elite: Dangerous in the past week, even though I will play it in the future - without complaining that I lied about the "never" part.

 

[Patrick_68000]

I vote 3 but in general it is rather between 0 and 4 times a day. When it happens, it is the computer reboots automatically and instantaneously. I changed the network card, graphics card drivers also, i put three operating systems on three different disks. Nothing changes, both on internet explorer or google. Maybe a motherboard problem or dslam, or phone line or ...

 

[SnowGhost]

Patrick_68000
Your problem is PROBABLY either
bad RAM, so go download memtest86 (or memtest86+ ... they are different) and let it run over night. Any failure is reason to replace it.
OR
Bad PSU. Size doesn't equate with quality. What PSU do you have?

If memtest86 comes back clean then I'd recommend replacing the PSU with a good one (I liek Seasonic PSU's myself)

 

[Gelbrock]

Im from New Zealand... Internet is available Monday afternoons, Thursday mornings and all day Sunday (10am till 4pm) Thats if there are no earthquakes, volcano eruptions, or Marvin the sheep has not chewed through the internet wire again.

Some guy from the big smoke who lives down the road has something called Broad band.... thinks he is all that.... pffft

 

[jan]

I found out that rebooting my router after cleaning out the temp file folders helps a ton since some of the temp files seem to try accses internet and clog up the router. if i try do some dl and dl seem to drop Down to a crawl whit 2-4 bit/s.
I hate p2p dl its the worst, normal dl gives me 500-1000 kb/s speeds and my internet is stable and fast.

 

[DD_Crash]

My connection is generally very good (I have BT infinity) however sometimes my speed drops drastically. As my gaming puter is hard wired I have found that unplugging and then plugging back in can cause the speed to go from 1 mb/sec up to 60+ , so before flying with my squad I do the unplug routine if I can remember.