Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Do Network Interface Devices Make Fraud Easy? Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 91 02:46:02 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 134, Message 8 of 9 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu In article rborow@bcm1a09.attmail.com writes: [about plugging your phone into the network interface to determine if a problem is the telco's network, your inside wire, or your phone instrument. The question was about the security at the NID itself, which is apparently outdoors for Illinois Bell.] Here in Madison WI the network interface is inside the building, so the security problem couldn't arise. But the last time I had a problem, the telco repair person told me that in the event of future trouble, I should take a phone known to be in good working order and plug it in there to see if it was a telco problem or an inside problem, since I have to pay for the latter, before calling telco repair. Not long after, when again having a problem, I did this, was convinved it was on their side, and I told this to the telco repair service when I called (from elsewhere, obviously). It seemed to me they appeared almost instantly to fix it. Maybe it makes a difference in the service one gets. Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888