Why do I lose my internet connection every day at sunset?

[cbayer]

I use an AT&T card and every day at sunset I completely lose my connection for about 30 minutes.

Is it some kind of radiation effect? Is it a message to me to finally get dressed and clean up the ashtrays and glassware?

Has anyone else had this problem.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear cbayer...

I have no idea...

What a puzzle!

I hope someone more knowledgable than I am will be able to answer...

In the meantime, it's good to see you tonight!

:hug:

[cbayer]

3. Hello dear Peggy.

My heartiest congratulations on your YouTube appearance. I am trying to download it, but have a really lousy collection right now.

Weather was beautiful today, wasn't it?

This getting kicked off my connection everyday is predictable as clockwork and a total mystery to me. I hope someone knows the answer.

Big fat hugs to you. :hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. It was a beautiful day, indeed!

In fact, it's still beautiful!

Thanks for your compliments!

Big fat hugs back atcha, sweetie! :hug:

[YDogg]

2. solar powered AT&T card?

:shrug:

[cbayer]

4. Nope, and it comes back after about 30 minutes.

Speaking of solar power, my new panels are kicking butt!

[YDogg]

9. cool. what do they power?

[cbayer]

10. My batteries.

I live on a boat and have no connection to the grid. I have a generator, but want to use it as little as possible. We just installed two killer Kyocera panels that feed directly into the batteries and charge them all day long. Other than the water heater, they are pretty much running the show now. It is really sweet!

[YDogg]

16. I want very much to hook up some solar.

I am a big fan of earthships. I'd love to live off the grid, but just don't see that as a likely scenario for us. But if I could hook up a simple system to power a portion of our needs, that would be very satisfying.

[cbayer]

18. There's an intital investment,

but some power companies are subsidizing. I have a friend in Texas who is getting money back from the power company. He feeds into the grid and his meter goes backwards. How cool is that?

[YDogg]

19. That would be awesome.

I haven't gone as far as checking with our local power company about subsidies/credits, but we like the general idea very much, and I hope that within a year or two we can dip our toes into something solar.

[cbayer]

22. I am assuming you are in New Mexico.

Check this out:

http://www.solarpowerrocks.com/new-mexico/

[YDogg]

27. alas, Florida

But thanks very much for the link - it looks as though there is good information available at the Florida page at the same site. I'll continue to take a look at it!

:-)

[mike_c]

6. 3 billion terabytes of porn roll every day at sunset....

Sucks the life right out of the tubes, I'm afraid. 'K bai.

[cbayer]

7. And how, exactly, do you know that?

Must be a happy hour phenomenon.

[Danger Mouse]

8. Loki. The God of Mischief strikes again!!

The bastard.

[cbayer]

14. I think it might be the God of

get your butt up off that couch, turn off that computer and do something constructive for a little while.

Don't know his name, but I would call him marriagesaver or antisloth.

[sarge43]

11. The gerbils in the spin wheel are on union hours?

My connection always craps out half way through a profound, insightful philosophical message. This may explain why I have no profound blah blah blah messages posted.

[Ptah]

12. In the twilight radio waves propagate differently.

[cbayer]

15. Radio waves propogate?

Like the mommy and daddy waves get together, have a bottle of wine and make little radio waves?

[Ptah]

23. Yes, similar to reproduction, however, during the twilight hours,

the daddy's (transmitter) cough * waves * cough
are able to get inside the ionosphere and travel to distant
mommies (receiver) that are normally too far to reach.



edit to ---> too

[undeterred]

25. Sounds like an engineers fairy tale

to me :rofl:

[Dangerously Amused]

13. It's supposed to happen at sunrise.

Your outlet was installed upside down, obviously.

[cbayer]

17. It might happen at sunrise as well

but I will never know.

That adds to my theory that there is some kind of electromagnetic thing that happens in the atmosphere when the sun comes up and goes down.

I just don't know what that thing is.

[DarkTirade]

20. Aliens.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Didn't you know?

That's when they shut down the valves on the Internet tubes.

[undeterred]

24. Aliens are borrowing your bandwidth

and aliens are very difficult to capture.

[cbayer]

26. Not that hard to capture.

I am married to one!

:rofl: