RadioDoc
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Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
 ·AT&T Midwest
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Re: Geez....
The bigger issue is lack of maintenance to all of those pole and pedestal mounted power supplies. Around here it's not uncommon to see the doors flapping in the wind and the batteries hanging out, restrained only by their connecting wires.
And any ComEd glitch takes the cable system out for an hour or more, probably due to said non-maintained power supplies.
But people are sheeple and chase the "savings" ghosts instead of looking for quality service...which is how we get ourselves in so many consumer messes.
Until the cable company can provide better than marginally reliable service in their core product, nobody should expect anything better in their add-ons.
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calvintrager
join:2006-08-17
Charlotte, NC | (backup) Powering a VOIP system
Here is some good info
»www.cedmagazine.com/article/CA62···t=alaska |
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Enlightener
join:2006-01-28
Cedar Park, TX | reply to RadioDoc
Re: Geez....
Don't blame just the cable guys here. The telcos are agressively pushing active electronics beyond the Central Office as well.
Loose power at an RT or VRAD box and/or CPE equipment and your screwed also. |
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RadioDoc
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Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
·AT&T Midwest
| When I see the same haphazard and negligent maintenance practices from the telcos, then I'll blame them too. Currently, it's just the "cable guys" who can't keep it up.
Telcos have managed to field reliable service from RTs for decades. Cable has had decades to get it right and still can't seem to manage it. My phone service does not go out with every 10 second ComEd blip. My cable service, on the other hand, dies for hours.
Who is to blame, again?
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Toolmaster of La Grange. |
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Marcs37
join:2001-12-03
Niantic, CT
| said by RadioDoc  :When I see the same haphazard and negligent maintenance practices from the telcos, then I'll blame them too. Currently, it's just the "cable guys" who can't keep it up. Telcos have managed to field reliable service from RTs for decades. Cable has had decades to get it right and still can't seem to manage it. My phone service does not go out with every 10 second ComEd blip. My cable service, on the other hand, dies for hours. Who is to blame, again? Here, here!!!
AT&T Northeast has been very aggressive in changing RT batteries this year, some as little as 5 years old, mainly because DSL equipment has been added to existing SLC cabinets. During deployment of newer DSL-only RTs (UMC, Litespan), the batteries are changed as a matter of course if a SLC cabinet is adjacent. The newer batteries will power an RT with 12 SLC-5 systems and a DDM with moderate traffic for up to 24 hours before we have to roll a generator. The battery technology is getting better and better, but the electric grid...is not.
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