ISP Information:
Any type of disk media which is not rigid. Often it's contained in hard cases, which can lead to confusion in identification. Commonly, the term is used to describe 1.44 MB 3.5 inch diskettes, but it applies to any media. Zip disks, for example, are floppy in nature if removed from their casing.
ISP Glossary:
Floppy disk - On 20 Apr 2004 16:34:30 -0700, littleboyblu87@yahoo.com (Mike) wrote: I have dialup internet access and I've noticed something whenever it gets hot outside. I noticed that when I try to get online before about 10 or 11 PM that my speed is extremely slow. I tested it on a website and it's like 14k. I can barely even access any webpages at all. Then after 11PM I reconnect and my speed is back to normal again (about 44k). I'm assuming this has something to do with my phone lines or some phone lines somewhere. This seems to only happen on days when it's above 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Why would this happen? Is it most likely a problem with my home wiring or could it be somewhere else? I have no way of testing my phone lines and I know the phone company isn't gonna bother with it.No idea with dialup, but when I first got a cable modem the speedwould come to a crawl on hot days (I was a beta tester with only about20 others users on the entire network, so it wasn't congestion). Icalled the head end tech at the cable office and he said that theamplifiers on the poles would become very non-linear when it got hotoutside, and they needed to do some tweaking on them to get themworking right. A week or so later and things were working again.So it is possible that somewhere something is getting hot and gets ofwhack a bit, reducing the quality of the line.
|
