[ale] [OT] Whine, moan, and complain - 6 day outage.

[Scott Castaline]

Jim Lynch wrote:
> Thompson Freeman wrote:
>> Ok. The weird part is, we have no idea what was wrong! The  
>> AT&T guy showed up, and nothing was working. He tied in his  
>> gear, back tracked up and down the line, came inside to  
>> double check all the way to the modem, and the blasted  
>> _old_ modem started working! He (the AT&T guy) claims no  
>> clue as to what happened, and I sure am clueless. Maybe he  
>> just scared it into working...
>>
>>   
> Sounds like business as usual for Ma Bell.  Back before the breakup of 
> AT&T I worked in a data center that had contracted with AT&T for 
> dedicated data communications lines across state lines.  This was back 
> when we were running synchronous 4800 and 9600  communications.  Since 
> we were also using Ma Bell modems, if the line didn't work, we'd call 
> them.  Not once did they ever admit they had a problem.  We'd get a call 
> a little later reporting "no trouble found" and magically the line would 
> be back working.
> 
> JIm.
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You didn't work for Quotron Systems? That sounds like what we would go 
through, although I worked out in the field, not at the data center(s).