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.

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

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.