internet issues

BPE

Hello everyone. This is Bruce from HOPEtels.org , the Casitas in Mulege, and the casitas in Santa Fe NM. www.casitas.net. I use a pretty sophisticated wireless signal in Santa Fe that allows me to cover two square city blocks which include about 60 guest rooms with three internet accounts. For those of you living in RV parks, compounds, villages, etc. I can do the same thing. I just need one or two telmex high speed internet accounts and I can spread the signal out all over the park. If you are familiar with the Orchards Vacation Village in Mulege I will be doing the same thing there too. No more walking to your neighbors, no more $ 50 a month for internet, it's all shared and it works all over the park, AND I can run a hard wire from an antenna to your computer which make SKYPE work 100 percent better.
I can also beam internet for miles, so if you are in a town that does not have internet, but there is another town within 10 miles that DOES have internet we might be able to work something out.
Mulege is a perfect spot because there is a big hill on the side of town which will allow me to beam a signal to a town like Punta Chivato.
Email casitas@swcp.com if you are interested.

Recent phone problems. Anyone tired about my theories yet? Blame it on John…… that be hurricane John. Do not just beat up on all Johns indiscriminately.

I think we are looking at two separate problems one is the cause of the other. the wire has corroded and making intermittent connections. which then overwhelms the capacity of our tower switches.

Anyway last year I had the similar issues I am hearing all over town. My phone worked fine but my internet was intermittent. Luckily for me the local telmex phone repair guys and I had a good relationship. Because of that I worked with them till we found the problem, again key word is I actively worked with them, did not just tell them you better fix it. I was with them up ladders/building and so on. Yes it was that important to me. So with active participation I got them to replace my line/wire all the way to the junction box. And when I inspected the old line I found a horribly corroded repair junction. (do we have salt air and a potential voltage that is ideal for a galvanic reaction) This it was good enough to pass their signal strength meters but when the wind would blow it was causing a what we call in the world of engineering “noise”. That noise seems to be ok in phone calls but is disturbing packets of data.

this is because voice does not have to be perfect packets of data. it does not have to have what we call checksums to have errorfree data. can you imagine if you sent your password wrong in any way what would happen. So what it could be is because of the noisy data the entire system is overloaded having to repeat itself several times for the data.

Not long ago I was able to do the same on my friends business at Villa Paraiso. their internet was virtually unusable but phone was fine. The Telmex guys has been out there about 2-3 times in the last month without any success. So I asked VP to contact me the next time the repairman arrived and I would come over and work with them. First I went out and traced the line to the junction box and found a repaired junction. So I assumed this was the problem. Luckily the employees called me as I arrived the Telmex repairman was about to leave again. It is not their fault they do not have equipment that can find intermittent problems and that is what this is. So I talked the repairman into replacing the entire line when I showed him the repair junction, and I do not speak Spanish and he does not speak English. It is amazing what a friendly pat on the back will do with these friendly repair guys. Before they had significant problems everyday, so far in 30 or so days not a problem.

So my theory and no one else can own it is when our lines went down from hurricane john because of the amount of work they did the repairs that just can not withstand our salt air conditions, gee amazing a line with a potential voltage corrodes? So my recommendation is follow your line and see if there are any splices on it. If so, it is a highly suspect that is your problem. I posted a picture if an example of what to look for in a day or two of such a splice to look for at below. How you get Telmex to replace the wire may not be easy if you have a long run to the junction box, the line they use is not cheap. If you find a splice and need be I can come over as some of the line repair guys for our area know me, they always wave to me if they see me on my motorcycle on the way to or from LaPaz.



you can see it here, though after fixing the Villa Paraisos line he cut this loop but look for anywhere there is a knot. follow your line from your house to the junction box. if you find one of these and you are having internet problems they will replace the line if you are real nice... make some cookies.... I am serious, i even made pizza for them to get a pole moved, but more it was Brenda's adorable 4 yo daughter Andrea that charmed them.