Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 2 Jun 91 20:23 PDT From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: PacBell Does Something Right Reply-To: John Higdon Message-ID: Organization: Green Hills and Cows Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 420, Message 8 of 10 Lines: 22 Donald Ekman writes: > It took exactly five minutes to connect my modem to the new line, and > another two minutes to test the whole thing. Pac Bell, for once, did > something right. You see this, John Higdon? :-) Yes, it certainly makes perfect sense for PacBell to remove your old drop, replace it with two-line overhead drop, and install a modern demark when you added ONE (1) line. On the other hand, it also apparently makes sense to the powers that be at PacBell to have an entire corner of my house covered with six types of protectors and ten haphazard single-line drops feeding them. A recently suggested theory is that this is PacBell's infliction of punishment for my having so many lines. Now for $300/month, it could all be provided on T1. Hmmmm .... could it be a sales pressure tactic? John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !