TOM WALKER wrote JAMES BRADLEY on 04-03-06 08:40

 JB> RT> Yeah, except here, I don't have a choice ... :-(

 JB>When POTS service here gives me 33.6 *if* the wind blows the right way; cry
 JB>a river. <-| I was getting consistent 28.8 transfers
 JB>with the old V.FC if th
 JB>line was stretched to my West, but connecting to a node
 JB>North of me - massiv
 JB>line noise and dropped carriers. It seems to happen to this day! (Yes, HW
 JB>handshaking cable on an external modem. Same machine, same modem, same
 JB>settings...)


 TW>  SO gows the state of repair of the old Copper
 TW> Lines. And it will
 TW>  ONLY get worse, SO be grateful for what you
 TW> have. I am and youer lines
 TW>  sound like what I have.

*Exactly* my point. (Read previous.) We've had a blackout of service from
morning to afternoon, with hardly a mention or a whisper of an apology. I've
called next door, about five times one day, at *least* twice punching in the
numbers, and the call didn't even ring his phone. Other calls did that very
afternoon, so, his equipment was working.

I don't think we have to "be happy" with this, but others seem to
go along with
it.


... James
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