https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1851&p=27741#p27741
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Visitor
Saturday, 31 December 2005, 04:59 AM


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Hello everyone.

Tormie, come out from behind that sofa, I am back.

Thank you, Uni.  Please take care of yourself and get rid of the cold bug.

Yesterday, the line conditions kept getting worse and worse.  The last phone call I made to the phone company was so drowned out by static noise that I could hear very little of what the woman from the phone company was saying.  No one came by for this yet, it is still set for some time next year.  (Next year?  WOW, that sounds far away!)

When noise level got a little better, I could not connect to websites long enough for a full page to be rendered. I was hoping to be able to send one email before the conditions got worse again.  I was right.  Sending that one email took about an hour, with many modem retrainings taking place, after that the noise level increased again and retraining failed.  After that the inital modem handshaking failed repeatedly.

I checked to phone line a little while ago by listening to the dial tone.  It was almost, but not quite, noise free.  I modifed my modem settings so that I can listed to the connection conditions.  Since my current connection began, I have heard only four retrainings taking place, and have been able to upload a picture.

So the problem may have gone away on its own, meaning that it may return.  But I think it is more likely that one or more of neighborhood companies were also being afflicted by the problem. While I and my family are not important enough for a priority repair, those firms are, so their repair fixed my problem too.  But checking with the phone company by their automated phone system (push 1 for this 2 for that) They still consider my situation is unresolved.

Pangor


