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

[Noel Butler]

On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 07:50 +1100, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
> -


The test scripting also performs (or tries to) a reset, and can in rare
cases resolve a current issue, dont know if its in all cases now or just
those of higher position (SS).

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/attachments/20131121/076a272a/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 490 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/attachments/20131121/076a272a/attachment.sig>