Many years ago, when the phone company here was QWest, my phone would go
out every time we had a rainfall of 1/4" or more. They never showed up with a
TDR to pinpoint the problem. It took them two years to find the failure, which
turned out to be a split outer jacket on an underground cable. The water would
seep in and saturate a wool insulation layer. They finally switched me over to
the very last good pair, and there hasn't been a problem since then.
When I moved here, the overhead junction boxes were wrapped with Hefty
lawn bags. It was more then ten years before they replaced those with proper
covers.
>
>The issues here are exactly as the "grizzled veteran" says. I have
>12000' of 24-pair up to our pedestal. Each time our service deteriorates
>the guys come out and switch us to another hopefully cleaner pair.
>According to Shaun who is usually the one to do it says we're down to
>the last couple "good" pairs. He's been out here a lot cleaning up our
>line. The good news is that they have upgraded the service to a new
>interface just 3500' down the road. The bad news is that they used
>copper. The good news is that we still may get 20mbps. The bad news is
>that it may cost more even though they said it wouldn't. The good news
>is that the new LTE Fixed Wireless tower may be close enough to get
>20mbps for $50. I'm skeptical. And what do I do for a phone?
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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