Incommunicado

[drscott]

My DSL needs Viagra.

That is, it won't stay up. The SBC folks were around and about all day working on it, so far not fixed. Since the first trouble three weeks ago, I've seen three other guys trying to poke around in the buried line box in front of my house. Big problem, apparently....

So y'all won't hear from me much [muffle those cheers, please!] until it's fixed.

Comments

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your DSL problem. I've been lucky in that I've not had any problems with it conking out on me.

When I first got DSL back in 2001 in a "seudo" one bedroom apartment on Queen Anne Hill, I was told I had good copper lines and could at that time do the max of 7GB through put. Turned out the lines within the building had been replaced in recent years so I was lucky there.

Where I am now, don't know how current the wiring is, but I know the original jack line in the living room goes back to when the building was built in 1960, but everything past that is newer, but how new or old is anyone's guess. All I know is that all the jacks are modular now. Still, no incidence of problems here although I'm on 256/256 myself.

Both times, I've had my lines tested to verify they could handle the bandwidth (and they did.)

Anyway, good luck. Perhaps a bad jack or connection somewhere can cause ths problem, which I had, and two jacks in the living room had gone bad, but interestingly, it didn't affect the DSL, but I could not reach my land line VM though.

One more thought

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Has anyone from SBC checked your modem to besure it's OK? Just a thought.