[GreenKeys] Experience on this list

[Michael O'Day]

  I must have gotten an old hand when we moved into our new house. We had DSL installed with our phone service. The modem kept having to reset itself, and would lose connectivity. Got the tech out after about a week, while I was at work. After a few minutes, my wife put him on the phone with me. After a friendly, brief and knowledgeable discussion, he explained to me the problem was in the house, and was mine to fix. Fortunatly I have enough old-time datacomm experience to understand what he was saying. For some reason we have a 3-pair cable coming into our house, so he told me what pair DSL would be on, and GAVE me a DSL splitter at the box so I could get rid of the plug-in filters. 20 ft. of new cable later, internet works great. Found the previous owners had cut & spliced phone extention cords around the basement rafters and through the walls to provide extra phone jacks. To this day I have no clue what route the DSL signal was taking to get to the
 modem, or in how many simultaneous directions it was going.

Mike
N9ODM
 

--- On Wed, 6/17/09, amourdutigre <amourdutigre at kc.rr.com> wrote:

From: amourdutigre <amourdutigre at kc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Experience on this list
To: "Don Cunningham" <wb5hak at martineer.net>, wa2hwj at att.net, "Larry Tighe" <larryradio at worldnet.att.net>, greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 7:50 PM

I second that thought as well, Jack. There is some numbskull down the block 
who has repeatedly tried to steal the cable TV signal from the cable, and 
always somehow seems to screw up the telephone circuits, which are about a 
foot and a half over the cable. When the "phone man" comes out to "check my 
line", they automatically tell me it is the phone wiring in my house. This 
last nincompoop was offended when I asked him to check the drop with his 
buttset, but when he did, lo and behold, he heard all sorts of crosstalk, 
and could not get a dial tone.

Sure 'nuff, the idiot down the street once again screwed up the junction 
block on the pole, and it effected the service four houses up.

And I have never had any experience being a "phone man".

Joe H
KB0TXC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Cunningham" <wb5hak at martineer.net>
To: <wa2hwj at att.net>; "Larry Tighe" <larryradio at worldnet.att.net>; 
<greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Experience on this list


> Man, are you right, Jack.  I have two, good experienced hands (also hams)
> that were FORCED to retire early or lose all the benefits they had 
> accrued.
> You think it was bad, just wait!!  I had to show the last one out here in
> the country where all the pedestals were!!!  I happened to have missed one
> in the poison ivy and poison oak, so IF I ever have to get them out again,
> I'll be sure to point it out for his pleasure, HI HI.
> 73,
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <wa2hwj at att.net>
> To: "Larry Tighe" <larryradio at worldnet.att.net>; 
> <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Experience on this list
>
>
>> My experience with the new species of "telephone man" is that the 
>> customer
>> better know
>> what he needs and how it works....the "telephone man" doesn't have a clue
>> (but he does get
>> his medical benefits for free...).
>>
>>
>> -------------- Original message from "Larry Tighe"
>> <larryradio at worldnet.att.net>: -------------- 
>>
>>
>>> Endless problems with my DSL circuit down at the shore house. Telco had
>>> been there numerous times.
>>>
>>> I remembered someone on this greenkeys saying his drop from the pole to
>>> the
>>> house was two tubes of green powder....I asked the repairman to replace
>>> the
>>> drop. Lots of green powder there too.
>>>
>>> I wonder how much longer it would've taken had it not been for that
>>> sharing
>>> of info on this list.
>>>
>>> Thanks to whoever it was.
>>>
>>> lar
>>> Larry
>>> K2JIA
>>> www.antiquetelephone.com
>>>
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