Ed's Big PlansDSL Infrastructure Problems?
My phone line was apparently struck with some kind of plague at 4am on June 2nd.
Here’s a result from speedtest.net showing the speed before the problem and the speed now.
Note that I had zero connectivity until last night. The Bell technician’s been called in and hopefully they can sort this all out. I do like Distributel after all (I’m totally looking forward to seeing a technician with my swollen wisdom detoothed face)…
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Note that the only difference is the download speed. It’s a whole new strange kind of asymmetrical DSL.
Update: Not as great as before, but bearable… I suppose the DSL is officially “fixed”.
I wonder if this neighbourhood will ever see ~1.5 Mb/s again.
I had a 4month battle with Bell complaining about the speed I was getting (fun fact: Bell does not guarantee any level of service) and it was eventually traced to something nesting in one of the telephone boxes.
Andre Masella
3 Jun 10 at 9:25 am
Update for the update: So apparently, the technician called it in and asked to have the connection throttled — this explains the -30% crimp on my speed test results… I’ll call in and have it uncrimped some time at the end of the semester when I can afford to have down time again
Eddie Ma
3 Jun 10 at 5:03 pm