A matter of timing

Yes­ter­day, I finally pos­ted on ENABLE­net, the free wifi at the State Lib­rary. I did men­tion that it had been reli­able and asked for feed­back on your exper­i­ences. Well guess what, today it had prob­lems. This morn­ing it was a little erratic in hand­ing out IP addresses. For 15 minutes I had prob­lems get­ting an IP address for either my Mac­Book Pro, Ipod touch or Dopod 838pro. Well sud­denly it sprang back into life and I was get­ting an IP and con­nec­tion on all three devices.

Another 15 minutes later and a cli­ent was hav­ing prob­lems, Same issue, no IP address, a quick bit of test­ing on my three devices same res­ults and I was think­ing power sup­ply on the uplink was caus­ing it usual infre­quent prob­lems. Then sud­denly I was get­ting IP addresses but no login page. A quick call to Acure Tech­no­logy the pro­viders of the ser­vice (and Met­roMesh) and I found out that it was a major sys­tem prob­lem, affect­ing not only ENABLE­net, but Met­roMesh as well.

The prob­lem had not been resolved by the time I fin­ished work, but I am hope­ful it will be fixed soon, I will keep you all updated. Though I blame the excess­ive rain Perth is get­ting right now. We are head­ing for the wet­test April on record.

It was fixed in the late after­noon, an event bey­ond the State Library’s and Acure Technology’s con­trol, a cata­strophic fail­ure of a power sup­ply on a switch at a down­stream ISP.

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