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Dec. 8th, 2004 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaToday's handy tip for keeping my brain working: do eat lunch, don't let it be stodge (bread and vegetables; lard a bad idea), do caffeinate severely afterwards, add sugar as needed for half-hour bursts of brainpower. I got a spare web server with a dodgy serial console server running Solaris 9 with Solaris Volume Manager (formerly DiskShite) and iPlanet 6.0SP7 successfully serving 404s! (Which beats refusing connections.) Unfortunately, I have to install 6.1 instead. That can happen tomorrow.
Our DSL appears to be running on the same quality of damp string as our voice line. It's acting like there's bursts of noise every now and then that wipe out the connection for ten to a hundred seconds. That you can pick up the phone and hear background hiss and crackle almost as loud as the other person's voice doesn't augur well. I'll try swapping out all possible plug-in devices before moaning at BT. Has anyone else tried reporting a DSL that's acting like a bad dialup connection?
Also, could people please offer unqualified non-lawyer advice on the legalities of putting a sign out front that says "THIS DOOR IS UNDER 24-HOUR SURVEILLANCE. IF YOU LEAVE A CARD WITHOUT KNOCKING, I'LL HAVE THE EVIDENCE." Just a thought.
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Date: 2004-12-08 03:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-12-08 04:03 pm (UTC)*cackles*
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Date: 2004-12-08 04:03 pm (UTC)You need to get yourself a copy of the Royal Mail book - its a guide of what the minimum service requirements the post office/royal mail must give.
Is the door going to be under 24-hour surveillance?
The problem with 'IF YOU LEAVE A CARD WITHOUT KNOCKING, I'LL HAVE THE EVIDENCE.' is, it could be construed as a threat... which is bad.
If it were me, I'd collect the evidence then go and LART the postmaster/mistress
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Date: 2004-12-09 01:21 am (UTC)DSL uses frequencies in the hundreds of kilohertz for hundreds of 3kHz-wide channels, each of which is wide enough for about 30kbps of data (much like a V.34 modem). Some serious signal processing turns these hundreds of analogue channels into a data stream up and a data stream down.
DSL really is like hundreds of V.34 modems in parallel, hence the thing you plug between your phone line and computer/router/switch really is properly termed a "modem."
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Date: 2004-12-09 02:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-09 03:03 am (UTC)Oh, that's really cheeringly plausible. Thanks ever so much.
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Date: 2004-12-09 03:16 am (UTC)*giggle*
More seriously, definitely do the master-socket isolation test thang everyone else has recommended, if you can. You may not be able to, depending on how badly the place is wired, though...
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Date: 2004-12-08 04:24 pm (UTC)*feels all small and stupid, runs to the corner of the room and puts the dunce's cap on*
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Date: 2004-12-08 04:24 pm (UTC)Ah, right. Here we go:
http://www.hometech.com/learn/dsl.html
DSL doesn't necessarily run on unused pairs... It only does that if your telco/ISP sets it up that way. If it does, it's a lot cleaner, because theoretically you're on an otherwise unused line. It can run on a in use pair too... that's when you need the line filters on everything that's not the DSL modem, in order to filter out the interference generated by those devices that will affect the DSL signal on the line.
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Date: 2004-12-08 04:06 pm (UTC)Burn the lot of them.
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Date: 2004-12-08 04:17 pm (UTC)Hmmmm. Americans are reputed to enjoy hanging signs out such as "THIS HOUSE IS GUARDED BY SHOTGUN THREE NIGHTS A WEEK - YOU GUESS WHICH THREE" and they seem to get away with it. Perhaps you just need to inject the right amount of humour into your sign, or threat.
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Date: 2004-12-08 05:43 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, a webcam on a Yvahk box *should* be easy to organize, though I've never quite had the CFT. A senior co-worker has, and we have lovely JPEGs of people coming in and out of the front door and various machine rooms at work.
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Date: 2004-12-08 04:28 pm (UTC)"This area is monitored by CCTV with recording. This system is operated by D Gerard for the purposes of prevention and detection of crime and monitoring the actions of callers. Please ring bell."
I could do with CCTV on my front door too, having a noticeable occurrance of parcels left by my back gate in the rain while I was in.
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Date: 2004-12-08 05:41 pm (UTC)Attempts at complaining to Australia Post about the current contractor's habit of leaving packages where they can (and possibly have been) easily stolen have produced naught but a useless complaint number.
So, at least you get the card :)
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Date: 2004-12-08 09:07 pm (UTC)Everything up to and including the master socket is owned by BT. After that it's yours.
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Date: 2004-12-08 10:09 pm (UTC)The suggestion of checking from the master jack at the point of entry is an excellent one, and should be your first/next step. The filters exist only to keep shoddy phones from causing problems with the high-freq DSL signals (which in spite of the name, are radio freqency analogue signals -- "modem" is spot on for the device). You will probably be able to get a good feel for the likely result of the master jack test by plugging a normal phone into the master jack. If you hear the same noise on the line, it's likely also just as noisy up in the DSL's frequency. Those test results in hand will allow you to face the telco with "Someplace, you must have a pair of wires not affected by damp or being chewed by squirrels. Find it."
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Date: 2004-12-09 01:17 am (UTC)A. Parcelforce.
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Date: 2004-12-09 12:29 pm (UTC)If you have a modern master socket (NTE5) then checking what happens when all extension wiring is disconnected is best. Unfortunately we don't have one, which made life a bit difficult.
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Date: 2004-12-09 07:23 pm (UTC)I love that word, haven't heard it in ages, think I last read it in a novel having to do with a boarding school :>
*unreasonably gleeful*
BTW, as long as we're talking about word-usage . . . what is LART? I keep seeing y'all using the abbreviation, and I have no idea what it stands for, although I've got a good idea of the meaning from the context!
-- A <3
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