[ale] Speedfactory upgrade

[Adrin]

Okay, what is this X10 device??   I have had earthlink/mindspring for years.  Recently
during storms and  heavy rain, I loose signal.  Usually giving the DSL modem a 1 minute
rest brings everything back around. Would love to be able to do this through a cron along
with maybe setting up a pppd dailin sometime.

I usually don't bother to call earthlink about the outage. Really tired of the same old
scripted ?? step message and auto response email. Maybe one day I will get all my email
changed over to a new ISP and do a switch where I don't have to pay extra for static.


Adrin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of James
> P. Kinney III
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 11:04 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Speedfactory upgrade
>
>
> On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 08:53, Geoffrey wrote:
> > James Taylor wrote:
> > > I transferred to speedfactory about a month ago, and it's been mostly
> > > satisfactory.  I've had a one hour outage which seemed to have been a
> > > Bell back end maintenance problem.
> > >
> > > I have been a little concerned that I've had outages during
> > > thunderstorms when my power blinks.  I've got all the equipment on UPS,
> > > but in the lightning storms we've had lately, there have been a couple
> > > of times when it's taken 5-10 minutes for the DSL modem to reconnect.
> >
> > Wierd.  I've got all my hardware behind ups's as well.  There's been
> > some nasty storms of late, but I've never had any weather related outages.
> >
> > You didn't have these problems prior to the move to Speedfactory?
>
> I have similar disruptions with my DSL from Speakeasy. If the atmosphere
> is highly charged, the sync has a tendency to go out. I have tracked
> this issue through 3 different DSL carriers (BellSouth, Speakeasy and
> Eathlink). The SDSL connection would remain intact while the ADSL would
> fail. Apparently, the ADSL sync is more fragile and disruptible than the
> SDSL. Just as the higher frequency signal tends to bleed out of the low
> quality twisted pair wires feeding my house, it seems that the broad
> spectrum emissions from lightning can bleed in.
>
> I have an X10 device on my dsl modem and a cron job that pings my
> upstream router. When I get no response, I reset the modem with the X10
> power socket.
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