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

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 18:58 -0400, 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...

Which translates to: The old wire feeding into the house was flaky and
the tech disconnected things to plug in his gear. When all was replugged
it magically worked again.

-OR- you have a rodent issue somewhere and the wire handling remade
connection or disturbed the grounding interference caused by gnawing
critters.
> 
> Any how - I have now vented, and I do feel better. I still  
> like using Speakeasy people. I just wish there was a better  
> solution for the final mile headache.
> 
> Thanks for the use of your bandwidth.
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