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- From: bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Any way to fight the phone company?
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 04:36:16 GMT
- Organization: Associated Technical Consultants
- Message-ID: <311583e5.45896239@news.insync.net>
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- floyd@polarnet.com (Floyd Davidson) wrote:
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-
- >Without the SLC you would be lucky to connect at 1200bps! And what
- >is the big deal about getting 28.8Kbps anyway? You are not paying
- >for a subscriber loop guaranteed to get 28.8Kbps. v.32bis (and
- >hence v.34) was designed to get 14.4Kbps over a loop that meets
- >minimum specs. Everything above that is good fortune, and you
- >have no valid complaint if you are not getting it. In your case
- >it is apparent that you are being provided far better than minimum
- >standard service and you are complaining is that it does not come
- >with gold plating.
- >
- >I get 24Kbps connects, and sometimes 26Kbps, but I can't imagine
- >making a complaint to the telco about not getting 28.8Kbps. I'm
- >26 miles from the CO, and the last 4 miles is copper. I talk to
- >the telco tech's on a regular basis, and more than once have told
- >them how lucky I am to get what I do...
-
- But Doug's remarks, that he was on a SLC and routinely gets 31.2k bps
- connections node-to-node, was what spawned my remarks. Doug uses his
- own situation to defend SLC technology against those of us who toss
- barbs at it. But I think we can agree that Doug's situation, to be on a
- SLC with *full digital* integration, is certainly the exception for most
- SLC-served subscribers.
-
- You are absolutely correct that the conventional loop which meets
- minimum specs can be expected to yield 14.4k bps performance and that
- all above that is good fortune.
-
- The original poster was bemoaning that his newly installed 2nd line
- exhibited what he considered unacceptably poorer performance (21.6k)
- when compared to his primary line (28.8k). Based on that level of
- performance, I don't see where he has a leg to stand on when it comes to
- complaining to the LEC. The LEC is in no way obligated to provide any
- level of service greater than a voice grade 300-3000Hz line. By virtue
- that his 2nd line offers 21.6k performance it therefore meets and
- actually exceeds minimum specs. The fact that his 1st line performs
- better for modem service is simply the luck of the draw. You win some,
- you lose some, and some get rained out.
-
-
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