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From: wcs@erebus.att.com (William Clare Stewart)
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Subject: Re: Static Causes Hassle on YaleNet
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Date: 20 Aug 90 20:54:57 GMT
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In article <11013@accuvax.nwu.edu> microsoft!t-jimc@uunet.uu.net
writes:

] regular YaleNet voice lines, usually with middling success.  The
] age-old problem: bursts of static which destroy my connections and

] hardly noticable during conversations ("I don't hear any static, sir")
] but reduces me to 1200 baud or less with some regularity.

Don't you just HATE that?!  I had a lot of conversations about the
same topic with New Jersey Bell, which were only resolved when the
static got too loud to do voice on the line ("I don't hear any static"
"That's because I'm calling from the other line that works - you
couldn't hear me when I called you on the bad line.")  Turns out it
was a bad drop line going through one of my trees; I had tried to tell
them the problem was mainly during bad weather.

They also tried to suggest that if I had a business line instead of a
second voice line then maybe I could get guaranteed service quality.

A few years ago one of the Utah folks (? Donn Seeley or Jay Lepreau?)
related a story about trying to tell the local phone company that he
was getting phase jitter problems and there was a T1 out of sync.

"What does it sound like?" "You get these }}}}i}} curly braces every
second" "But what does it SOUND like?" "Is your supervisor there?"


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