On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 01:25:42PM -0400, Brett Delmage wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > I did have a problem a year ago where the phone was working > > intermittently, but DSL was fine. I have my DSL on a dry loop, so it is > > seperate from the phone line. It turned out to be a problem outside > > where Bell connected the feed to my demarcation point, so it was their > > problem to fix. > > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 01:00:22PM -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote: > >> I noticed that when the wind picked up, the my connection went > >> intermittent, that is, it started cutting out in periods of seconds to > >> minutes. Guess it's time to get Bell a call. :( > > Good luck. > > We should all hope to have "dry" loops :-) Heh, well, that was the gist of my problem. The connection was at ground level in poorly wrapped connections, so it was in fact so wet that it was shorting to ground. > Bhell had some crappy exterior wiring here in the Civic Hospital area. > Every time it rained, the phone line started to short out. Often, DSL > continued to work in a degraded manner when the POTS quit, but even the > DSL would eventually quit too after getting slower and slower as the > higher frequency channels dropped out. Service came back slowly as the wet > wiring dried, sometimes days later. Fortunately, my DSL never completely quit, but I would not have noticed the line speed degradation due to the other Bell underspecified switch in one of their routing centres... > (The shorting process somehow caused 911 to be dialed sometimes. Worse > case was when the cops showed up at my front door at 2 AM on a night I was > sleeping, thinking they had a serious call.) > > It took Bhell 1.5 YEARS to finally find and fix the degraded exterior > wiring. It was a few blocks from my house. Ouch. Dont't talk to me about Rogers' wiring, both exterior and interior... > And it is now again the rainy season... ...and for the first time, April 11th, we had water in the basement because of that early morning intense electrical storm (through which I slept, surprisingly). > Brett slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.net> <www.TriColour.net> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________