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Hi trogers,
This has nothing to do with the noise problem. Just wanted to say that I have a granddaughter in the 11th grade who just spent a month in your country. She was north of Bangkok and lived with a host family doing chores, etc. They hiked in some well known mountain, and did get a couple of ...

I had DSL years ago (2000-2002) and don't think polarity makes any difference. I was surprised to learn that DSL worked on just a half a pair. My line was one side open in the outside cable. The phone didn't work, but DSL still ran like always. Don't recall whether it was the ring or the tip side ...

I thought I recently read that Verizon was dropping that requirement and would offer "naked" DSL. Some folks no longer use a land line and are happy with using their cell phone.

For years it used to say that 2-3 people were viewing and give their names. Now, it always seems that there are 30-40 viewing at any given time. Wonder what has caused the major increase in viewers.

Some companies have remote whatever (?) so you don't have to count all the way to the CO.

The individual pairs in CAT 5 are twisted. The Blue/Blue-White are considered pair #1

Why not use a neigbor's phone number to check?

Hi Macy,
I was a PBX repairman 50 years ago and you impressed me as one who knows the telco business. Not many are familiar with Ground start/Loop start, etc.

The DSL will be slower. Have you checked your speed on cable?
I average about 1000/700 on RCN cable modem service

"And I've gotten a HIGH of

512Kbps/
81Kbps "

Those numbers look like you have not been upgraded to 768/128.

When I had Verizon DSL, they provided a Westell modem. It is ADSL.

This filter post caught my eye. The TV in the room with the computer has a picture with some verticle lines on certain channel which are not present i a TV in the next room. Both TVs are alike and only about 3 months old.

Where would the cable company place such a filter?

Just got an email from Telus which answwers my question. Here it is:

<<Hello and thanks for your email.

The speedtest site is now configured for TELUS ADSL customers only. It
measures the speed through the TELUS network and thus can not be used for non TELUS ADSL customers. You may wish to do a ...

I have used telus speedtest http://speedtest.mybc.com/
for over a year without a problem. Now, it just takes me to their home page and I don't see a link to their speed test. Has anyone had success with Telus lately?

The thing you are 4700 feet from is called a central office or CO for short. I have had Verizon DSL for 18 months. After a rocky start, the reliability is much improved. Dropped connections are rare now. The throughput, which had been around 500kps has dropped to ~250 for the past few days. This is ...

You ought to give tech support a try at 800-567-6789. You might get lucky and only need a simple change of settings. Others may have some worthwhile suggestions for you.

While reading a thread in another forum, I mistakenly clicked a button a couple of times and it added two members to my buddy list which I don't use. How do I delete items from the list?

Unlike the other platform, Macs don't need tweaking.

I bought DSL for Dummies about a year ago, but was disappointed in it. Amazon.com has several DSL books but the are "big ticket" items.

I'll just post a few lines at the start of the "ghosting" e-mail.
•••••••••
The problem in which you describe may be resolved by "ghosting" your MacPoET
and TCP/IP settings. In order to do this ensures that you have your Verizon
Online CD-ROM (Release 2.0), or the downloaded release 2.0 of the ...

I complained to Verizon about slow throughput. They e-mailed me saying it can be resolved by "ghosting" my MacPoET. They then give me about 20 things to do, but it looks like an uninstall and reinstall of their software. Has anyone heard of ghosting?

I don't know about the Outback, but around here, the suburbs usually have aerial construction except in center of the towns. It is fairly common for birds to cause problems in splice closure. If it is open enough for the birds to get in, moisture gets in and caused corrosion. The birds probably ...

Yesterday, my phone was out of order as one side of the line was open. This was confirmed by Repair Service MLT test showing the line as open 550 feet away from me. Sure enough, they found an open in a splice closure two sections away frommy house where a bird had built a nest.

The surprising thing ...

Thanks for the offer, BK, but don't go to the bother of changing your setup. I was just hoping someone near Boston would read this and post a couple of test results. At the same time as Verizon dropped, so did dslreports.com, 2wire.com, Microsoft and Telus. My guess is that it is a Network problem ...

Used to get a bit over 500kps using
ba-hss.com speedtest site. On 3/18 it dropped to a range of 250-350kps.

Looking for a Verizon DSLer in Boston area of Massachusetts or anywhere else in the state to do a couple of tests at that site and post the results.

Obviously, tech support is not at all ...