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to: RAY GOULD
from: DAVID WEI
date: 1997-08-29 20:13:00
subject: Re: Line Test

 -=> Quoting Ray Gould to Art Krallman <=-
 RG> Hi Art...
 
 AK> I called the phone  company and they told me both my line are the
 AK> same. How come I connect at different  speeds? any thoughts.
 RG> the phone company lied. ;)     I have a similar problem here in the
 RG> UK..  I have 2 lines but I can only get 33600/33600 on ONE of the
 RG> lines, the other one is always 31200 with about 1 in 30 calls being a
 RG> 33k6..   I've had engineers checking out both the lines, i've had gain
 RG> increased on the poor line but the phone company say nothing is wrong
 RG> with it..    I think that the line is just not as good quality as the
 RG> other one and the phone co cant find the problem.. 
 RG> bfn..
 IMHO, most teleco consider both line to be the same if both are either
 dead... or useable (even just barely)... Better to check for loose
 connection, extremely long cable, cheap cable, and interference than
 calling them...
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