en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| Uverse buildouts... expect dropped line issues with POTS.
Those that live in areas with Uverse buildouts happening (i.e. VRAD being installed), expect outages with your existing POTS/DSL.
at&t's contractors killed my line twice in 1 week.
Tuesday, POTS was dead, DSL still worked, showed up as a 'short'. 5 hours later, techs repaired it, moved me to a new pair.
Saturday, I had no POTS or DSL (killed on Friday evening). Repaired Monday morning  as contractors had moved my service to a dead pair.
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Canada = Hollywood North |
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ninjatutle
Premium
join:2006-01-02
San Ramon, CA | Never had any issues here. Maybe the day labor force down there is more fresh where as the ones here have at least a few years under the belt. |
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koolkid1563
Premium,MVM
join:2005-11-06
Powell, WY
clubs: | The only time I lost POTS service during the build-out of U-verse in Houston was during my install when they got me connected up to the VRAD, and they told me that would happen. |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| reply to en102
The VRADs in my neighborhood are fairly new; one hasn't been turned up, yet. I don't recall any POTS trouble in the last six months; not that lasted long enough for me to get in a service call, anyway.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| 
VRAD in perspective | 
Digging up the street | 
Digging at intersection |
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Pine59
Premium
join:2002-04-03
Dallas, TX | reply to en102
I had the same problem in Dallas. Lost POTS and DSL, earliest truck roll was 3 days later but it was fixed in 20 minutes after the tech arrived.
We have 3 land lines but only one was cut, unfortunately it was the DSL line. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| My neighbor's POTS went out today, and I had many drops on DSL
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Canada = Hollywood North |
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FixManTx
Premium
join:2005-02-06
Carrollton, TX
| reply to en102
Those larger beige boxes have been going in all over Houston for most of the past year. They just put one in my apartment complex a few weeks ago and the power meter has been in a couple weeks. I keep trying to sign up but I'm getting the "not available" thing from the Uverse website. Since Houston is going through the Time Warner-to-Comcast swap I don't want to deal with cable. From everything I've heard from people who have switched here in the Houston area Uverse is better anyway. I don't have a POTS line and so far my DSL hasn't gone out. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| I found out that when my DSL typically drops, its about the same time as the cities automatic sprinklers hit the F2/VRAD. I suspect that its just noise from the pump, as my line returns to 'normal' right after its done. I hope this issue goes away with the VRAD and Uverse.
relative capacity occupation: 67%
noise margin downstream: 12.0 db
output power upstream: 12.0 dbm
attenuation downstream: 51.5 db |
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richierudman
join:2002-05-18
Stow, OH
| reply to en102
My stats for the heck of it. |  |
DSL Connection Details
DSL Line (Wire Pair): RJ-11
Protocol: G.993.1
Downstream Rate: 27264 kbps
Upstream Rate: 2048 kbps
Channel: Interleaved
Current Noise Margin: 13.0 dB (Downstream), Not Available
Current Attenuation: 31.7 dB (Downstream), Not Available
Current Output Power: 12.3 dB (Downstream), 6.0 db (Upstream)
DSLAM Vendor Information: Country: {0x4E} Vendor: {GSPN} Specific: {0x3937}
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| Mine was just 'plain' ADSL stats..
Home> wan adsl chandata
near-end interleaved channel bit rate: 0 kbps
near-end fast channel bit rate: 2496 kbps
far-end interleaved channel bit rate: 0 kbps
far-end fast channel bit rate: 512 kbps
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Canada = Hollywood North |
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Anonymous_
Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
clubs:
·RoadRunner Cable
·Time Warner Cable
 ·Time Warner VOIP
1 edit | reply to en102
said by en102  :Here's a few recent pics heres an main box
if you want to use the images drop me an line via PM
i charge 1$ per image
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Global warming did not eat my homework. |
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fm2499
@grandenetworks.net | Those pictures look surreal. Are you in the Twilight Zone?
Maybe you just need to clean the lens. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| LOL - looks like little fogged up.. but that wouldn't be the case in Palmdale/Lancaster (8% humidity).
AT&T have been up and down my street over the past week, knocking out my DSL on a hourly basis. |
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Anonymous_
Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
clubs: | reply to fm2499
na it's an OLD digtal CAM |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| Power was added to the VRAD on Monday.
Now it looks like they're doing all the neighborhoods in the area - at least 4 more VRADs going up.
Notice the 'wet' area on the cinder block wall. When the city sprinklers go on, I typically lose sync on standard DSL.
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Canada = Hollywood North |
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koolkid1563
Premium,MVM
join:2005-11-06
Powell, WY
clubs: | Somehow, I don't see the link between the VDSL DSLAM and your ADSL connection dropping out, as the ADSL connection is not even going to that DSLAM. |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by koolkid1563 :Somehow, I don't see the link between the VDSL DSLAM and your ADSL connection dropping out, as the ADSL connection is not even going to that DSLAM. It could be going through that cross-box, though...
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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koolkid1563
Premium,MVM
join:2005-11-06
Powell, WY
clubs:
·Bresnan Online
| I am sure his line is going through that cross connect, but the VRAD shouldn't have anything to do with his POTS line, unless some idiot tech did something with the termination of his pair, which is very possible.
En102, have you had any techs out to check your lines, and not just at your house, but at the cross connect too? |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA | Ya-but...city sprinklers could affect the cross-box more than the VRAD. |
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