[Imc-tech] voice line fixed, DSL still hosed

[Zachary C. Miller]

Hey folks, I meant to send this to tech at soltec not tech at ucimc. Sorry
for the confusion.

Zachary C. Miller wrote:
> Josh, just so you know, Ameritech claims to have fixed the shorting on
> my voice line and it has made absolutely no difference in the
> situation with my DSL. The DSL still goes down every 4-8 hours and
> stays down until I reboot the router. Going down is always preceeded
> by a 1-10 minute period of increasing packet loss.
> 
> Isn't there some setting in the router's config that would let the
> router deal with this situation? I mean it's clear that immediately
> after whatever situation causes the outage the _line_ is fine because
> a reboot always brings things back up to full 100% quality with no
> packet loss. I don't have to wait for the trouble to clear up before I
> reboot, if I happen to be sitting here and notice it an immediate
> reboot is effective.
> 
> So can't the software detect that it isn't connected and just do an
> immediate internal reconnect of some sort. I mean even if there is a
> problem with the line, in this case, smart software should be able to
> deal with it.
> 
> Just a thought. I will call on Monday about all this.
> 
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Zachary C. Miller - @= - http://wolfgang.groogroo.com/
IMSA 1995 - UIUC 2000 - Just Another Leftist Muppet - Ya Basta!
 Social Justice, Community, Nonviolence, Decentralization, Feminism,
 Sustainability, Responsibility, Diversity, Democracy, Ecology