For the last week we have been having trouble with our cable provided internet service. It would go off for several hours and then magically come back on again (the modem was losing connection). This happened about every day, usually in the middle of the day, until it went out Sunday while my wife needed it for important business.
I called for a service tech visit for Monday morning. Showed up on time, spent a lot of time looking everything over, etc. Puzzled, he spoke with a supervisor, who came over with a special meter and informed me I had "wee woob" on the line and he would go fix it.
He left and was back soon, telling me the problem had been fixed. I couldn't let it pass without a little more info, like what the heck is "wee woob" (a technical term). He told me that no one knows for sure, that they have had several discussions with manufactor, who is also at a loss other than they know it has something to do with the ground plane of the amp installed in the main cable line up along the road. Although they don't know exactly what it is, they do know how to fix it when it occurs.
He told me he went down the road to the pole where the amp enclosure was located, climbed the pole and, I swear this is what he said, "hit it with a big stick". Wee Woob gone.
So my question is, have we really come that far if today's fix to our technical electronics that brings us TV is the same as it was 50 years ago when we just banged the side of the TV to jar the tubes back in place to get it going again?
Perry
I do realize that this could be a standard gag they pull when they can't find a problem, but if it was, this guy should be nominated for an Oscar. He went into great detail about the steps they had taken, etc. (And the problem is indeed fixed.)