UK Weather App

I thought I’d post this recent discovery caused by my ISP temporarily, without my knowledge, disconnecting my internet connection to help another customer, then eventually leaving the service disconnected for a couple of days.

So at some point in the last few years, I downloaded the UK weather app, a handy utility, and it’s been sitting on my desktop, running from startup unnoticed for a while now.

The symptom I experienced was the computer froze during use and then startup. At the time I didn’t know my internet connection was being connected and disconnected. Therefore, I was working on the assumption that perhaps it was being caused by the use of a daily build or the new network stack. I worked out that it was the weather app causing the issue- ALT-Break helped me identify the app.

I also had an ah-ha moment, although I can’t confirm it until it happens again. I also wonder if the app was responsible for a comparable situation caused by one of my power line adapters needing a reset now and again.

Anyway, I thought it might be useful to post about this for anyone using the app who might have had a related experience.

I had that once. Couple up the hill were complaining of intermittent connectivity, so it was much easier for Openreach to just swap my working line with theirs on the run back to the exchange than to try diagnose the fault…

Yeah, powerline adapters are also not the most 99.9% uptime thing.

I replaced wonky, slow and unreliable Powerline adaptors with a mesh wifi and it’s a huge improvement.

A colleague decided that his man-cave (garden shed/summer house) with power available was best connected with a 20-metre fibre run in a length of flexible pipe so that the house network switches could talk to the man-cave switch.