[AusNOG] Solar flare

[Paul Brooks]

On 8/03/2012 8:54 PM, Jacob Gardiner wrote:
> I've had the same issue in the past. About 5 minutes after it would start to rain,
> speed would drop and sometimes would lose sync completely.

At the risk of stating the obvious - water mixing with metallic electrical conductors
tend to do that, quite apart from the corrosion issue long-term.
 
Glass fibres are a bit more inert - thats why we make windows out of the stuff.

P.