[tfug] dsl stats

[Benjamin Krein]

We signed up for DSL and installed it Monday.  We went back to cable  
yesterday!  I'm glad we didn't get around to cancelling our cable.   
DSL was horribly unreliable and Qwest's use of PPPoA made a modem I  
had on hand unusable.  Personally, I'm pretty disgusted with Qwest's  
implementation of DSL.  Back east I had Earthlink DSL over Verizon  
and actually liked it better than Comcast cable so I was pretty  
excited about the switch.  Apparently things have changed (or Verizon  
just did a better job of it).  Either way, good luck with your DSL -  
I'm happy to be leaving it behind.

Ben
On Nov 1, 2005, at 7:38 PM, dave jordan wrote:

> i've been having massive problems with my qwest dsl, ever since i
> signed up -- it goes out for a few hours every other day.  the repair
> dudes have been over here a dozen times, they've switched out the
> modem, changed pairs from the CO to the crossbox and from the crossbox
> to here, taken out the bridge taps -- the problem is definitely not on
> my side of the demarc, as evidenced by the fact that i can plug the
> modem directly into the demarc and it makes no difference.  it seems
> like my neighborhood (grant & mountain) is too close to the CO to
> warrant a remote DSLAM and too far away to reliably receive the signal
> from the CO (they have told me i am "directly" connected to the CO).
> paradoxical, i know.
>
> anyway, in the process of figuring all this out i have written a
> python script to suck the signal stats data out of my actiontec
> gt701-wg modem and put them into a file, so if anybody could use a
> copy let me know.
>
> -dave
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