So I’ve been using Joikuspot to tether my bmobile Zoom! wirelessly to my MacBook Pro running OS X and I noticed some weird hiccups and glitches that show some sort of corruption of the data bits I’m receiving from the Internet. The 4 main issues are
- Corrupted Webpages: that will show HTML markup in the middle or end of the page or even load gibberish
- Corrupted Images: the image will not fully load and reloading will not solve it (forgot to try clearing the cache though, I used Opera Turbo instead)
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- Corrupted downloads: downloading the same file multiple times gives different md5sum hashes. Downloading directly from the phone seemed to get the file properly (so perhaps this rules out bmobile’s Zoom! as part of the problem)
- Interrupted videos streams: YouTube shows that it has loaded the whole video (after seeing the red progress ‘bar’ load fully) but in the middle of the video it just stops (this is different from truncated video streams where if you monitor the red progress bar it will jump from the middle to the end abruptly when loading the file)
Marul seems to have no issues for his Joikuspot so could it be OS X? Or could it just be an unreliable Internet connection from bmobile? Whatever is the cause of a combination of causes it does get annoying and wonder if there are ways to detect what’s going on and solve this strange problem of mine.
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Wait.. Theoretically this shoouldn’t happen right?? I can imagine the corrupted images (incomplete transfer), but shouldn TCP or whatever underlying protocols you use take care of the ECC? Then maybe you get low speed or incomplete transfers. But incorrect html files seems a bit odd.. :S:S:S
Unless it could be something weird happening at ISP side (possible throttling / data injection) or even on phone Joikuspot side delivering corrupted data at times. Considering it doesn’t happen all the time it’s even harder to narrow down. So.. *shrug*