From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 5:47:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A068237B41C for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 05:47:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11561 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2001 13:47:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.135.203) by smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 7 Nov 2001 13:47:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 46327 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2001 13:47:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO MOTHER) (192.168.1.2) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 7 Nov 2001 13:47:01 -0000 From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Bill Moran" , "Michael Lucas" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 08:46:23 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (5.0.2195;2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Welders causing dial-out to fail Message-Id: <20011107134708.A068237B41C@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 12:54:57 -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: >Actually, I've been there. Sort of. > >Heavy electrical equipment can play utter hell on badly-shielded data >lines. Voice and data use very different frequencies; interference >that can destroy can leave the other untouched. > >I hear everyone bellowing "An analog modem is very different than a >data line!" I would not be surprised if something like this was >happening there. And people kind of expect faxes to look lousy. :) > >You might seriously look at the phone line you're using; run a >shielded phone line and see if your problem goes away. > >On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:00:37PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >> This may be a little off-topic ... >> I have a client who I installed a FreeBSD proxy server for. that and on a hit or miss percentage, a lot of buildings aren't wired with good cable to start with. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message