<div dir="ltr">We have a Telstra junction pit on our home boundary. Internet performance used to drop away during heavy rain and for about a week after. Call Telstra, a few days later technical support turns up, all tests OK, everything is OK till next rainstorm. Repeat until annoyed.<div>
<br></div><div>Eventually they tracked it down. The junction pit had a huge ants' nest in it, which acted like a giant sponge when it rained. It partially shorted out the ADSL cable terminals, giving rise to ridiculous crosstalk and signal loss. Took about a week to dry out.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Telstra Guy Who Removes Ants Nests was in Brisbane, and working his way around the country it seems, so I got a stick and slowly dragged it apart and out. A half-can of insect killer later - problem solved!<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>It was the only time I've debugged a hole in the ground.</div><div><br></div><div>kp</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Bruce Riley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:BRiley@studygroup.com" target="_blank">BRiley@studygroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi Catherine<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">This reminded me of years ago of another hardware failure – the offending desktop fan had a snake inside it!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Cheers<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bruce<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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