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- From: jsavage@yorku.ca (James Savage)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Any way to fight the phone company?
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 13:08:28 UNDEFINED
- Organization: York University
- Message-ID: <jsavage.214.00D91E2B@yorku.ca>
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- In article <4f7j27$8lf@gti.gti.net> cuthe@gti.net writes:
- >From: cuthe@gti.net
- >Subject: Re: Any way to fight the phone company?
- >Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 12:53:34 GMT
-
- >FYI, to follow up on my original post, which asked how I can deal with the
- >phone company's stance that they don't promise any given data rate on a
- >residential line (I wasn't able to get over 21.6kbps on my new second line).
-
- >My third call to the phone company over a week was answered by someone who was
- >able to do a remote test of my line and said it came back as "Open Out"
- >meaning that there was an imperfection somewhere between the central office
- >and my building. That justified them sending out a repair person, even though
- >I had voice-grade use working.
-
- >The tech came today (Sunday) and we worked out a great solution for us all --
- >we swapped my second and first phone lines, so my second one was the perfect
- >one, and the first one was sufficient for voice calls. I'm happy to be able
- >to cruise again at top speeds, at no additional cost to me.
-
- ....so....the 'imperfection' was not found????....they simply moved the
- problem to the other line where it would not affect the voice application.
- I think the telco got off lightly. If they detected an 'open out'
- imperfection then they should have addressed that issue and presumably you
- could've used either of your lines for either application......unless, of
- course, the telco is not interested in perfection.
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