A week or so ago I mentioned that I got my DSL to a point of very high reliability. There’s a fair amount of truth to that, with a bit of a sudden change today. Here’s how it all went down.

I figured out that my DSL was acting up because of issues with wiring in my house. What exactly was going on I still don’t know. But I do know that the previous owners of my house installed a second phone line, and that the physical wiring for that line is still in place. By installing a DSL filter at the service box outside and wiring the DSL side to the second phone line, I was able to filter my whole house using that one filter and ensure a clean signal for the modem.

Of course, that service-happiness high lasted for about a week.

Last night and this afternoon my ISP decided to do something to their access concentrator. I’ve been switched to yet another one, not unlike the disaster that happened back in February. No, I don’t have another $20 a month to fork over just for a static IP.

So as of now I have bigmomma running my ZoneEdit update script which is hitting the No-IP dynamic update check server every five minutes. I may have to make the interval smaller (and I will switch to using Germantown for the remote IP check if I do this) but it looks like things will work out.

Naturally my static IP hack I used on my modem isn’t working anymore. It didn’t work for a period back in February either, but then began to work again. We’ll see. I definitely won’t be seeing 98.17.59.63 again for a while.