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reply to tstolze

Re: Wet Weather Issues

I have opened the NID several times with no sign of moisture. I will check in the morning if it hasn't started raining yet.

I am going to take my router out of the loop in the next hour or so. That way when I call tech support I will be one step ahead of them.

We are forecast for 1-4 inches of rain in the next 36 hours. Hopefully I can get some clues from the log in the modem.

Thanks!
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Ofallon, Mo Weather

Definitely check your modem and monitor the stats to see how much they fluctuate during the bad times. It's probably a wet cable pair, and knocking your noise margins down to the point your modem drops the connection. And NO MORE RAIN!! I'm close to the Branson area tstolze, and we've recorded record flooding around here. Table Rock Lake is up about 14 ft in places! My ticket load has been very large to say the least.

Do you have a home run with a splitter in your new NID?

Fuffer, repeaters are only for circuits, and don't have regular POTS running through them. All the closures you see on an aerial cable (or the green pedestals for buried cable) are simply splice points, or openings to bring cable pairs out and tie in the customers drop line.

And yes, we have test equipment that measure distance to faults, shorts, grounds, cross-battery, open cable pairs, etc. Makes the job a lot easier most of the time, but even then sometimes there is no substitute for a good butt-set and some scotchloks.....and using the "divide and conquer" method.

Levels look decent right now. Is that about where they normally are?

That black plastic stuff is called slicker cloth. There's an old saying that goes "Vinyl is final, but slicker is quicker." And unfortunately, slicker sometimes ends up being pretty permanent in some areas!

reply to Icon

said by Icon:

Definitely check your modem and monitor the stats to see how much they fluctuate during the bad times. It's probably a wet cable pair, and knocking your noise margins down to the point your modem drops the connection. And NO MORE RAIN!! I'm close to the Branson area tstolze, and we've recorded record flooding around here. Table Rock Lake is up about 14 ft in places! My ticket load has been very large to say the least.

Do you have a home run with a splitter in your new NID?

Fuffer, repeaters are only for circuits, and don't have regular POTS running through them. All the closures you see on an aerial cable (or the green pedestals for buried cable) are simply splice points, or openings to bring cable pairs out and tie in the customers drop line.

And yes, we have test equipment that measure distance to faults, shorts, grounds, cross-battery, open cable pairs, etc. Makes the job a lot easier most of the time, but even then sometimes there is no substitute for a good butt-set and some scotchloks.....and using the "divide and conquer" method.