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    Angry any suggestions.. short of electrocution...

    my silly sodding puppy overnight has chewed through another network cable (which drives me bonkers) - which I was using to monitor my router to see what kind of UDP traffic causes the wireless to crash (Dlink won't RMA it!) - but she's chewed through the second cable in 2 days!
    Wireless disconnects every three minutes - due to said router problem. Any ideas - or am i just best off venting, and buying another reel of cable? She was lying there this morning looking up at me with these big brown eyes when I came out to see why everything stopped working - going "Who me???" She's getting cuter by the day, but still drives me nuts!

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    mrs fraggies little miniture poodle puppy decided to chew through a nokia phone charger the other day, not only once, but into tiny little bits ops:

    They make you mad and them give you the eyes.... evil critters lol

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    Coat the cables in barbed wire............or coat them in something sticky and then roll them in broken glass.

    Or - as i learned when i had a puppy - hide the wires better - get some cable trunking tubes or sumthing, tape em to the wall, put em under the floor etc. You can make it so they are very hard to get at.

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    teeth extrapolation till they are older then give em dentures

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    Run 240V mains cables across the room. She'll chew through it once, then never again.


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    just dont use wireless , its not a mature enough technology ?

    have you prooved that other AP's give you a reliable signal in the same position ?
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    I think wireless is totally "mature" enough for things like home use. With modern equipment it's great. I can get a totally reliable signal in every corner of my house / garden and I never get any disconnections or dropouts.
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    Wireless has let me down too often for me to support it at the moment.
    I got given a wifi router with this BT 21st century kit along with a matching USB NIC.
    It will sometimes just decide to drop the connection for no reason what so ever , perhaps someone within 100 yards has switched their microwave on.

    I'd still want to try and swap the AP out for another one ( just borrow one for a bit ) and see if that's the problem , or check the position to see if its on some ancient lay line of intermittancy.
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    I know that you can get sprays that are odorless to us but dogs can sense them- you spray them on furniture and it puts them off nibbling. Don't know how well that would work on plastic cables though, cause it probably woudn't cling

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moby-Dick
    I'd still want to try and swap the AP out for another one ( just borrow one for a bit ) and see if that's the problem , or check the position to see if its on some ancient lay line of intermittancy.

    Aye, or perhaps try changing the wireless channel?
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    paint the wires with something that tastes horrible. like nail varnish or something.
    non-flamable too perhaps...?
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    true - am going for arsenic for the cables.
    ap is dropping signal - previous ap had exactly the same problem. turns out the router (downstream - dlink dsl504 gen II) disconnects media when line drops out. current ap drops wireless when it detects that line has dropped - but hardwired doesn't. so was running ethereal on the router monitoring what was going on. problem is dlink has done it with two ap's now and it's really annoying me.
    Need to buy a new router!

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    Putting something on the cables, arsenic might be a bit harsh could be a good idear, or get the old chewed calbem, take the wire out of the sheefing and fill it with chilly powder, when she chews through ut, bam scared for life. Never touch a cable again, i read it in a dog book! My dogs too good to chew cables.

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    Nail varnish sounds like a good idea, or get a container with one of those mistifier caps on it and squirt her in the face when she does something wrong, its what they do in dog schools

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    lol that's probably a good idea - unfortunately - she likes chili... never tried it with chili powder tho

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    By dog likes spicy food, but it makes him lick the capet, try using something superspicy, like fresh chillys, the really small green ones.

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