Mizzat
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join:2003-05-03
Atlanta, GA
 ·AT&T Southeast
1 edit | Load Coils are the devil
Though I'm not a tech, load coils make my life difficult. I'm sure they are great for farmers, but I've had to create too many jobs to remove them. Ugh! This article amused me, though. Talk about Irony!
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timcuth
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join:2000-09-18
Pelham, AL
clubs: |  You mean they put those things in there on purpose? 
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sNaKeYeZ
NES Geek
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join:2002-07-11
Chunky, MS
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Yep, they are the devil. A load coil (or something in the database that SAID I had a load coil) is what prevented me from getting FastAccess to begin with. Thank goodness that was fixed.
I think my problem was very common. BellSouth had no way of helping me through standard means, and if I hadn't pushed and talked to a helpful fella on this board, I'd still have no DSL.
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Tel
join:2001-10-12
Mauldin, SC
·AT&T Southeast
| Load coils can be our friend also, just not for DSL. I can remember in the early days of caller-id, the problems a missing load coil cound cause for customers on 20,000 feet of copper. I had one customer that had a problem with intermittent caller-id. I could get it to work a 100 yards from their house all the time, at the end of their driveway some of the time, and almost not at all in their house. Come to find out, when construction replaced a cable back up the road, the engineer had left the last load coil off the job. Eventually, we had about 10 or 15 pocket coils hung in a ped. |
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Rob
In Deo speramus, God Bless the USA
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Kendall, FL | reply to Mizzat
Is that Splitpair?  |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | reply to Mizzat
Charles makes a DSL friendly load coil. But it's too prohibitive to use it since a database overhaul wouldn't be worth it. |
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LightSpan
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join:2004-02-18
Lexington, KY | reply to Rob
No, that guy in the pic is to old!!!!!!!;) |
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Rob
In Deo speramus, God Bless the USA
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Kendall, FL
 ·Comcast
| said by LightSpan  :No, that guy in the pic is to old!!!!!!!;) is that yooooooooooooooooou ? lol |
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Splitpair
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Cow Towne
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said by Rob :Is that Splitpair? Na that guy has too much hair on his head though I do use the same type of soldering iron when working on mux cards.
Wayne
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Splitpair
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Cow Towne
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said by LightSpan :No, that guy in the pic is to old!!!!!!!;) He looks ten maybe twenty years younger than me and at least ten years older than you. 
Wayne
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tel601
join:2005-08-11
Picayune, MS
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Load coils are unfortunately a needed evil. When the pairs are over certain lengths they are required to maintain the levels of the frequencies in human voices. If they were not in place in these longer runs the result would caller id not working, volume of phone call low, and dial up modem not connecting. The biggest problem comes from them when a engineer decides to place a remote in the middle of a loaded route to provide adsl, they many times forget to include removing the load coils as part of the job. Load coils tend to limit the frequency response of a line to about 3khz no where near high enough for adsl. Hopefully they can all be removed as more remotes are placed in the field. |
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LightSpan
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join:2004-02-18
Lexington, KY | reply to Splitpair
That is true,now hand me that soldering iron so i can close up my wounds. |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here
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Sometimes they place a remote and regular cable in the same crossbox so where they can't remove the load coil without ruining the dial tone for the copper customers.
It really sucks when you're having to try and redesign plant on the fly with no money available. |
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