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join:2004-01-07
Crockett, TX
 ·Windstream
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| reply to tstolze
Re: Wet Weather Issues
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.  | |
tstolze
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join:2003-08-08
O Fallon, MO
·CenturyLink
| 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? Yes I have about 6 ft of cat5 for my home run with a splitter in the NID. Here are my current stats as I have the router removed.
DSL Speed (Kbits/Sec) 12538 894
Margin (dB) 10.0 10.0
Line Attenuation (dB) 38.5 20.0
Transmit Power (dBm) 22.6 12.2
I will have to take a drive in the morning to look for open/damaged "boxes". I have seen several that my line doesn't run through that are either open or have been destroyed and just have a plastic bag over them for several months now. 
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Crockett, TX
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| 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! | |
GeekJedi
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Mukwonago, WI
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| 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. Gotcha! I was thinking of the little green peds, for some reason I remember an olg GTE tech calling it a repeater.
I agree with the butt-set statement! I have a Harris that I carry with me to check audio (and in-building telephone) on the 66 blocks all over the building.
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