[AusNOG] "It's like grandfather's axe"

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

On 20/11/2013 7:58 PM, Tony wrote:
> No, I haven't reported it to the carrier for a while. I think I did at 
> one point in the past and the result was it went to the testing team 
> queue, sat there for 2 days until someone got around to looking at it 
> at which point the service had righted itself and job was closed with 
> "no fault found".
Now here's the interesting question..  Did the service actually 'right 
itself', OR did the line testing resolve the problem?  A house we lived 
in a few years ago, our ADSL sync would drop from 9mbps to 4-5mbps like 
clockwork, if we had more than three hours of continuous rain.  A call 
to telstra saying there was crackling on the line, and 5 minutes on hold 
while they ran a line test, and voila, the crackle was gone and a 
retrain on the modem and it'd be back up to 9mbps.

-- 
Damien Gardner Jnr
VK2TDG/VK2DGJ. Dip EE. GradIEAust
rendrag at rendrag.net -  http://www.rendrag.net/
--
We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
  We ran to the sounds of thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts,
  and tore the world asunder

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