[ale] isp questions

[Jim Kinney]

Come on lighting strike!!!

On June 16, 2020 4:50:09 PM EDT, Derek Atkins via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>On Tue, June 16, 2020 4:39 pm, Alex Carver wrote:
>>
>> If I can wait a bit longer they may have to upgrade the neighborhood
>on
>> their dime instead of mine.  Right now the copper system is very old
>and
>> deteriorating.  I've had to have the line crew out twice because the
>> pair I was on had degraded.  On the last visit the crew told me that
>the
>> neighborhood only had two spare pairs, all the others were in use.
>> Because of the two calls the two spares are gone and we're now with
>zero
>> spares.  They told me one more outage would force them to replace
>> everything because they would not have the spares.  So we'll see what
>> happens.
>>
>
>Sounds like they just told you how to force their hand!!!
>
>-derek
>
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