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- From: "miker in Tigard, OR." <mreiney@hevanet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: How Does One Contact The Phone Company About Noise Problems?
- Date: 24 Mar 1996 04:17:09 GMT
- Organization: Hevanet Communications
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- I have an intermittent line noise problem. There's an intermittent audible popping
- and crackling noise on the line when I connect to my ISP. When the noise is present,
- it either won't connect at all or the data rate goes to zero. It's worst around
- midnight. It's not there on connections to other BBS numbers.
-
- This ain't no little data disturbance. It would be quite objectionable on a voice
- call.
-
- The only available trouble number rings to some central service center 1000 miles
- away. During the times I can get thru, the noise is usually not there. So when they
- test the line, it's OK. I had to threaten to jump thru the phone and eat the
- supervisor just to get them to acknowledge that phone problems sometimes exist.
-
- My ISP is connnected thru a different phone company. So each points the finger at
- the other. Both want me to authorize undisclosed service charges if they go out to
- take a look.
-
- The phone company refuses to give me access to local service people who might
- actually be able to help. They won't even give me a way to call back to the person
- that I talked with last time.
-
- Aside from hijacking a GTE truck, is there any way to get thru to the local phone
- company?
-
- Also, redialing a lot usually finds a path that works. Is there a way to force the
- routing thru a particular path in the switching system?
-
- Thanks, miker
- Tigard, Ore.
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