redblkjck
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join:2001-11-07
Sanford, NC
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Re: Problems DSL after 8PM, Sanford NC
Thanks for the reply. Ya know I don't use my home phone very often and after hours if I call is always my cell phone. I do remember hearing a lot of interference weak static noise one night when someone called the house phone. It's on a 5.8 wireless phone but I have a few wireless AP running near by. I didn't give it much thought other than wireless interference. I'll have to test it tonight, I have a wired phone somewhere packed away. House wiring is all new and they used cat5 going straight to the phone jack, no daisy chain from jack to jack. Each jack has it's own pair to the NID. For testing I put a standard inline DSL splitter at the NID and hooked the modem directly at the NID. Removed the house wiring from the picture. My SNR and Ant levels were the same as being hooked at the phone jack, measured off the modem internal pages. The tech did put in a bigger 'bit' to help draw a better signal. The Ant levels he said, I think were 45 and 37. Don't remember him saying anything about SNR.
I'll test out what the quality of the voice line is at night. If it's getting noise over it then I can put a ticket in for that. I am hooked into the last end tap on the street. I think I saw four other pairs hooked up (only four homes) at the tap when the tech opened up the pole. Underground cabled subdivision with those short poles for cable and phone access. It's about 225 feet from the NID and the street tap.
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shadowfax
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join:2007-01-06
Lexington, KY
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| Yep, in our rush to trouble shoot the data issues that has everybody upset, everyone forgets to pick up the phone and see if the phone is working. For example, I once went on a data trouble report of the IP address dropping from the server every other minute, the guy had problems for a couple of weeks befor getting fed up and calling. It took me about 30 minutes to locate the problem, a squirrell made a nice little nasty nest in a splice enclosure. The guys line had a solid cross on it and was completely dead. Once the nest was cleaned out, I resplice the line, and everything was ready to go. If he would have picked up his phone and realised the phone was dead, the problem would have been fixed in 24 hours, instead of 2 weeks. Go figure. |
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redblkjck
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join:2001-11-07
Sanford, NC
| Well there is not much noise on the line that I can definitively say it's a problem. I can say there is softness in the line. I did notice my SNR is jumping all over the place tonight. It's sitting between 6 and 10 then goes -4, -8, drops circuit, 17, 12, 10, 6, 4, 10, 10, -5, -8, drops. That is taken directly from the phone jack in the NID with filter. It's dropping about every 45 seconds right now. I'll try and get another ticket opened up. |
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redblkjck
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join:2001-11-07
Sanford, NC
| Guess I will have to wait till Monday and stop by the local office. The automated process is telling me there will be a service charge if they come out and find no problem with my voice line. Which unless they come out at night, there's not really a problem. If they show up and I am not here to explain what is going on... I'm screwed on a service call fee. Tried the help desk again. After 20 minutes of waiting, the help desk disconnected me soon as they picked up. I've had enough frustration with the India help desk. I'm not calling back.
I threw my 5100 back on to see if the problem still exists. It does. The signal reported is a bit higher on SNR and Ant 12/51 but the problems of the SNR fluctuating and dropping is the same. |
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redblkjck
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join:2001-11-07
Sanford, NC
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They switched the mode back to DSL2 from FAST.G, the SNR went up to being around 18 afterwards. Will have to wait to see what it does at night time. Talked to another tech who thinks this area might just be over subscribed. There are three more subdivisions added on within 1/2 mile. One is almost fully populated, the other two are being built on. They were not buying the bridge tap idea, said I should be having problems all the time rather than just at night...See how it goes. |
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