Re: Need a word for...

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

The key to your question is whether or not the repeated disconnect/reconnect is 
supposed to be happening.  If this is how the system is designed to work, then 
words like "cycling," "thrashing" or "churning" could all be suitable.  If the 
disconnect/reconnect is an unintended and undesirable situation, then the 
momentary disconnects you are describing are dropouts, and the reconnects are 
the system recovering from them.

Gene Kim-Eng


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