>On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:34:51AM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote:
>> Just a general observation that probably applies to DSL
>> implementations from all the baby bells and telcos...it is inherently
>> more complicated setup when you start adding the necessary hardware
>> layer at the telco CO. It is just one more thing that can go wrong,
>> and the technology there is still very new. I find DSL not quite as
>> reliable as dialup. While they advertised 'always on', doesn't mean
>> 'always up'. BS does give a free dialup account so when DSL is down,
>> you are not out in woods.
>>
>
>Hugh? DSL should be inherently much more reliable than modem dial-up.
>I've never heard of consistend outages that couldn't be traced to
>the line or other faulty equipment. Once replaced, it should work
>rock solid. I'd be contacting someone and complaining.
>J. Scott Kasten
J. is correct. I have a DSL circuit that i run my web server on. It is up
24x7x365.26. The only time it has failed is because of line problems.
I'm in an old area that is now short of pairs. The first pair went bad
over July 4th, which took forever to get fixed. But that when I was just
getting started and it didn't affect my web site yet. The "new" pair
was marked bad, but thery couldn't find a problem. Wekk it showed up a few
weeks ago. But, here is the neat part, the DSL portion worked, but the
voice portion failed. I was without phone service for a couple of days
and didn't discover it until I went to make a call and didn't have dial tone.Long
story short, the pair partially shorted out. At least 600 ohms so that
it siezed dial tone. Of course dial tone was terminated after a while.
Not being shorted enough, DSL kept working. I knew it was shorted when I
used my cell to pick up messages and I was put into voicemail immediately.
The tech verified the short and they used my original line pair, which
still had battery. I've been operating without problems since.
So, here is a case where voice died but DSL kept working. In Buffy speak;
fire bad, DSL good.
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