Comment by protocolture

Comment by protocolture 3 days ago

Man having dealt with so many wireless issues I already had a shortlist when I read fixed wireless was involved.

Either the radios were misaligned and the rain was reflecting it back towards a stable link just enough to improve throughput.

The rain took a bad link all the way down, failing over to a different link.

The rain/wind was moving an obstruction.

I have about a million of these stories sadly.

"The internet goes down on tuesdays"

Crane.

"The internet goes out in the morning"

Temperature inversion.

taneq 3 days ago

“The car won’t start after I buy ice cream”

The old classic, I think it turned out that in hot weather the fuel line vapour locked a few minutes after turning off, and the ice cream was at the back of the store, and took just long enough to walk there and back to trigger the issue.

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VorpalWay 2 days ago

I have a personal one with my car: if from a cold start during spring/autumn temperatures (or early mornings in summer), I drive about a km and shut it off, then come back to the car after a few minutes it will not manage to stay idling once I turn it on. What happens instead is that the RPM goes too low, and the engine shuts off, then the start/stop feature kicks in and restarts the engine. This happens every few seconds repeatedly. If I press the accelerator it can keep running. And if I just drive a meter or two it will work fine again when I go back to idling.
I tried both with neutral or in gear but with the clutch pressed (yes, it is a manual, fairly common in Sweden still) and that doesn't make a difference.
I haven't managed to figure out the cause, but since it is a modern car I would assume it is something with the ECU that goes wrong. (It is a Dacia Duster in case anyone else recognise this issue. The mechanic I asked hadn't heard about anyone else having this issue though.)

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