[sbc] "Your line is fine"
[paul] "well, yes. The problem occurs whenever it rains. Usually, I'm presuming, because there's boxes like that swinging open in the breeze. *points at cross connect box at the corner that is wide open and visible from the porch*"
[sbc] "Aww, god damnit. Has that been open all weekend?"
[paul] "yes, does my line go through that one in particular"
[sbc] "yep. I'm thinking I know why your connection was bad now." *visibly angry*
[paul] "All weekend I was getting 11dB SNR on the line, and had 22% packet loss.
[sbc] "I just tested you with 27dB SNR."
[paul] "Yea, it stopped raining last night."
should have called me.
I'm not on probation, so I can scoff the law while I close it with my trusty can wrench.
hehe. That which I cannot do, I cannot legally ask others to do. I just wish the box at the corner of lincoln and John R stay closed.
what about if it just happens to suddenly get welded up one day? 😀
suboptimal. Then people can't fix my lines.
oh, and I have some crap for you. If you wait until tomorrow to get it, I'll try and grab an extra battery as well.
you know, I saw that this weekend.. I was tempted to take my steel boots and kick it, because I have coaxial internet service, and never use my home phone. 🙂
haha, if my phone line didn't work, it gets fixed in hours. If DSL is down, it gets fixed in days.
can we get some kind of discount from SBC for keeping their stupid crossconnect closed??
I think they'd be willing to charge us a fee to keep it closed, but I don't think they'll give us a discount.