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Re:Car allergic to vanilla ice cream by mschuster91 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @09:43AM (#37597510)
It's not like fiber doesn't have its own weird failure modes. Favourite one I heard was shoddy belowground work while crossing a street. No problem with ordinary car traffic, but heavy trash haul trucks could interrupt the link.
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Re:Car allergic to vanilla ice cream by orbital-decay on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:46AM (#37598423)
An ISP my friend worked at was having weird outages in one area, and it turned out that they had an apartment block built right in the way of their free-space optical link. Surprisingly, it was fine at first because the link went straight through it without obstructions, window to window. But when they started to add window panes, finishing the construction, the link became spotty, and adding the doors blocked the signal completely.
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Re:Car allergic to vanilla ice cream by mschuster91 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:39AM (#37599293)
How does one even attempt to troubleshoot that, without resorting to a questionably legal drone or chopper flight?!
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Re:Car allergic to vanilla ice cream by liotier on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:03PM (#37601494)
Line of sight, easy - just aim a sight and find that you are seeing a building rather than the opposite antenna.
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