I had a friend in the early 1970's who was a repair/install supervisor for
New Jersey Bell. If a new employee was able to tell if they could get a dial
tone by picking up the phone, they were assigned as repairmen.
The ones that could not were assigned as installers.
He always had far more installers than repairmen.
Geoff.
The telephone company came out and fixed the speed problem. The
repairman said that I have copper all the way to the CO now where I
hadn't before. I'm only two miles from the CO, so I can't imagine what
my line previously went through to get from my house to the CO, but
anyway that part of the problem is now resolved. The most common
connection speed I've noticed now since this upgrade has been 49.20KBS
with the slowest connection sometimes at 45.0KBS. So now I have to
figure out what's going on with the ISP.
For the most part there is improvement, however it seems that at times
even though it appears that I have a good connection it constantly
disconnects me from the server, or the little green circle, (Windows
7) turns and doesn't seem to go anywhere. This is frustrating because
it's hard to tell what's going on. Sometimes when this is happening
I'll click on the connection icon and see the data changing so it
seems to be working but aside from what it says that I'm connected at,
at what speed?
Can the connection speed change while you're connected? I've tried
different local access number and some seem to be a bit better than
others but this is very hard to properly assess too. I would like to
take this up with the ISP but I feel that I might need to be armed
with some more information though. I'm just not sure of what sort of
information that should be or where or how for that matter I can get
it. Lenny
