Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:

>In , on 01/07/2005 
>   at 04:36 PM, "Mike O'Connor"  said:  
>
>>Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:
>>    
>>
>>> Interface speed = 80/320 - This is not at all clear to me.
>>>
>>>    I interrupt this as saying that the drive can function at
80MB's/Sec or 320MB's/Sec; but not at 160MB's/Sec.
>>>
>>>    Is my interruption correct?
>>>
>
>>Hi Don,
>>I'd interpret that as minimum 80 maximum 320 HBA support needed!
Not backward compatible with less than 80MB/sec  controllers.    
>>
>
>Hi Mike
>
>     Been missing your comments.
>
>     Thanks for the alternative interpretation.
>
>  
>

Hi Don,

Well what with gastrointestinal acute haemmorage on Crhristmas Eve and 
ongoing vehicle stalling problems that no-one seems to be able to 
resolve, I have been a bit off-colour recently!
Yesterday after waiting anxiously for several weeks on the outcome of 
the Telco's "qualification"  of my line-status - have to have ISDN 
removed to get the applied-for ADSL 512/28, I got cheesed off waiting 
and rang them yet again  as about 10 days previously they'd said it 
should all be resolved in 5-working-days, only to be advised that I 
can't get the service as I'm in a pair-gains situation here.  That 
depressed me somewhat as I was really looking forward to getting ADSL, 
just like my neighbour 40ft. away, who's on the same exchange!

However , on Googling on "Telstra, pair-gains", I located a god page at 
http://www.dataco.com.au/telstra_issues, which gave a good understanding 
of the problems with pair-gains technology, and also interpretations of 
the various ambiguous responses provided by Telstra, the national Telco 
here.  It also has telephone direct links to the ADSL section of Telstra 
and I was luckyenough to encounter a technical support person who knew 
about and was actually familiar with non-windoze Operating Systems!

He looked up my case number, and then advised me that my "hold" was 
absolutely nothing todo with pair-gains problems, or distance, but was 
solely as a result of lack ofadditional capacity at the local telephone 
exchange [Central office switch], and to keep hounding them at about 
three-monthly intervals!

So that made me rest easier!
There's still hope yet.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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