From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 15:48:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA23459 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 15:48:28 -0700 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA23451 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 15:48:15 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) id QAA13769; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:51:22 -0600 Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:51:22 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199504212251.QAA13769@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: Network Coordinator "Re: Annex router" (Apr 21, 6:06pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Network Coordinator Subject: Re: Annex router Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ Private email, no sense boring the mailing list with this ] > > However, on my second line (radio), every night the telco. does a line > > check about 11 p.m. every night which causes my phones to 'fake-ring', > > which also caused my modem line to fail every night before I got it > > switched to copper. > > I am on copper, as far as I can tell, and I am *lucky* when the line is > up for 2 days straight. Is there anything I can do with the phone company > that will work? I thought that if I tried to explain the problem to them > they'd think I am insane. Most phone companies are pretty good about these things. I was lucky in that U.S. West is in the middle of a bit lawsuit from a consumer group who claims they aren't doing a very good job of customer support, so they have been *very* good about making sure I'm a happy customer. They understand dedicated phones lines, and when I setup my line they asked what it was used for which actually made it easier for them to understand the importance of the problem when I had problems later. I live in Helena Montana and they understood the issues, I suspect most places in the U.S. are pretty well versed in the requirements of dedicated phones lines. However, there is no guarantee that your line must work 24 hrs/day 365 days/yr with a standard phone line, so they may opt out and you'll be stuck with the service you have now. Why is it such a big problem? During my problems, I setup my modem to auto-redial until it connects in case my work machine rebooted. It's also setup to auto-dial when my box reboots, so it's a no brainer now. I don't have to do anything as it's all automated on both ends. There are advantages to being your own ISP. :-) Nate