This never ends, awful just terrible.

Let's start with last year.. Had a normal bt broadband, it was awful. Would never connect, the router would start flashing orange lights randomly and just.. A dead case.
After thinking about it I thought to upgrade to infinity, thought maybe the router is faulty or something, maybe it will work.
NOW, a whole year of.. Misery!!! I can't play one online game without having to close it as the internet is lost.
Called up BT India good hundred times, yes my lights are fine, yes te cables are plugged in, and no I'm not gonna cable every internet-needing device in my house, as this is 21st century and I don't want to buy 200M of 10cables!! Firstly it took a whole week of calling for them to put me in a different channel, as people around me were in the same wifi channel therefore it was conflicting and causing problems, but even so now.. It normally goes off randomly and takes a couple of hours to go back up, yeah the internet is still present, but it doesn't load anything, I mean this is a very expensive internet therefore I expected a great service and I do get it when it's working, but when it randomly goes off and I gotta spend literally hours speaking with BT India, it's not appealing at all, worse of all they don't even fix the problem, but recommend another few months of contract so that they could send in engineers and whatnot!
My phone contracted internet at £10, 5x cheaper than the BT infinity MIGHT not be as fast, but it's reliable!! Doesn't randomly disappear, and I don't even need to carry a router around.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

My phone line isn't faulty, I'm sure of it.
I can't run the tests without internet can I? Mind you when I make the connection wired, it's all fine, but then I'd have to sit in my corridor which isn't fine at all.
You make it sound like a prototype, when the broadband doesnt do this little mood swing oh his, the gaming quality is perfect, I couldn't ask for more! Many places at present day have wifi connection, restaurants, hotels and such and non of them expierence this problem, so why do I? Reading from other posts, I can only realise that this is either faulty equipment or congested lines, which is not my responsibility therefore I shouldn't have to worry about it, but what am I doing now?

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Dropped database in a never-ending app

Hello,
I have an application which processes all the time by implementing a never-ending loop and a sleep at a given interval. It accesses the database to retrieve, insert and update data throughout the entire process. I have created a connection pool that contains a configurable number of connections (for any future multi-threading) that will be retrieved to complete the SQL transaction and released when it no longer needs it. The list of connections is decreased when I access the pool and increased when the connection is released. My concern is that I would like to detect when the DB has been dropped and brought back up without having to restart my app. The first way to detect it would be to check the connection object when it is used, but I am not sure if that is the way to do it correctly. Does it fail when I create the preparedStatement or when I run executeQuery or executeUpdate? What is the best way to detect whether I need to re-create my pool of connections?
I appreciate your feedback.
Thank you

It will fail when you try to open the connection. If for example you are using a JNDI DataSource when you call the DataSource.getConnection() method it will throw a SQLException with the correct code and message for the database vendor.
That said, I wouldn't do it the way you're doing it. By holding an open connection, you're pirating a connection resource that the DB may need for something else, or another app might need and in my opinion it's just bad design.
I would recommend opening the connection at the beginning of the method where you are doing the data access and then closing it (along with all of the other database resources before leaving that method. A general code pattern would look like this.
public void getSomeInformation(){
String sql = "SELECT something FROM somewhere" ;
try{
    // initialize the connection
    // initialize the statement object
    // prepare whatever parameters
    // execute the statement
    // make sure you got some results and process accordingly
catch(SQLException e){
    // handle any exceptions that might come up
finally{
    // close the result set
    // close the statement
    // close the connection
    // set all of the above to null to mark them for GC
}Some of this may seem like overkill, but that's a feeling that goes away when you've had your application spin into the ground because you accidentally left database resources open and killed the database and the application server.
Yes, there's a little overhead in terms of getting the connection, but it's a delay that my customers have never complained about in the face of the abject reliability of making sure that the house is clean and orderly all the time.

This never ends, awful just terrible.

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