[lug] Cisco 678 and NAT

[Nate Duehr]

Timothy Klein wrote:
> On 3 Jan 2006, at 11:37 AM, Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
>>> (I've yelled at them for weeks and they claim that there is nothing they
>>> can do: we are far from the station and the wires going from my work to
>>> the station are shared with 25 T1's and when the T1's are in use I get
>>> noise pickup and it drops the DSL connection.)
>>
>> That's silly.  T1's are synchronous circuits and they're always "in 
>> use".  If they have an outside plant problem with cross-talk, they 
>> need to fix it.  Of course, they won't -- but they should.
> 
> You'll never get Qwest to fix this problem.  You get no guarantees of 
> bandwidth on a regular DSL account, and they absolutely will not repair 
> a line unless it is non-functional.  What Qwest has done here is sell 

By the way, I can think of a few ways to make a DSL go all the way down...

The techs are as much caught in the bureaucracy as you are -- sometimes 
they do a great job if you knock down whatever barrier is keeping them 
from working on your circuit.

If you get lucky and get a perfectionist tech who likes seeing things 
work correctly -- he'd get it working, even if he had to re-arrange all 
the pairs in the cable.  They're out there.

"This circuit just keeps getting worse and worse... today it won't even 
stay up..."

Whether or not you feel like playing that game is totally up to you.

Nate