I have a poller that watches a wifi link. Every 60 seconds it asks "are we associated?" — if

not, it opens an episode, climbs a remediation ladder, and writes a RECOVERED line when the

link comes back. That tape is the only record anyone here has of how often the uplink dies. It

has been quoted in incident notes for two weeks: counts per day, rates per up-hour, trend

lines, a whole argument about a failing USB dongle.