Metroliner telephone article 4065

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:55:45 GMT, Philip Nasadowski

The only wiring that would produce that effect is the wiring between the DSL bridge and the POTS jack. Very improbable.

I've done my own telephone (and cable) wiring to meet or exceed Bell standards for almost 50 years so I know it's done right. I have, or have access to, the necessary test sets to see what the signal quality is at the respective demark so I don't contact "them" unless I am sure and can articulate that it's "their" problem.

When we moved into this house in a 40-year-old suburban neighborhood 7 years ago, the phone service and cable service were "not up to grade" and both DSL and Cable Modem were not available.. To get it fixed, I did the following:

Ordered 4 POTS lines (Phone, FAX, 2 dial-ups). They had to put in new buried cable from the street pedestal to my demark. The couldn't find four clean pairs so they actually had to run new 25-pair from the B-Box to all the pedestals in the neighborhood. In the process their contractor cut the buried TV cable drop to my house so I got a new drop courtesy of Q-Worst.

When it was all done I dropped two of the lines, retaining distinctive ring on the phone line.

I am at the physical end of the loaded cable from a Portland CO - between 18,000 and 22,000 cable feet from the CO depending on how they measured it, so DSL was "not available" at the time.

The cable system was in the process of being rebuilt with the optical fiber backbone necessary for cable modem service. I am on one of the advisory committees of the cable franchising authority, so I was able to get on a first-name basis with their district plant engineer. He gave me a one-day heads-up for when my node was ready to be lit up, and we scheduled my install for the next day. Went in like grease through a tine horn. After a shake-down period, I dropped the dial-up phone line.

When they finally put in DSL Extenders, reducing my loop to 8,000 feet, I said "no thank you".

Isn't it nice to know the right buttons to push, the right people to speak to, and the right things to say to them??

Don't get me started on that!!! I spent 28 years on the FCC field enforcement staff (I'm both an engineer and an attorney and was District Director of the San Francisco Field Office), and saw the agency go down the sewer with the advent of "let the marketplace decide". The final straw for me was when the know-nothing-technical Chairman at the time - the guy who introduced the "spectrum auction" - decimated the field staff because he didn't understand what spectrum management and enforcement was all about. I retired 11 years ago (I still keep current as the regulatory VP of a consulting engineering firm ) and know that I got out at the right time.

73 de K2ASP

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"Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please" Phil Kane - Beaverton, OR PNW Milepost 755 - Tillamook District