PBW Down? - Back up!

eorg · #1 August 5th, 2003, 01:54 AM

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Originally posted by Slynky:
Jeez! Wouldn't you know it, Geo, NOW I'm in a KOTH game with a genius programmer. Had bad enough sweats with DavidG!

:-P

1FSTCAT · #2 August 4th, 2003, 02:39 PM

Thanks for all your time and effort Geo. If there's anything I can do to help, let me know.

--Ed

Loser · #3 August 4th, 2003, 02:39 PM

Thanks for the update Geo.

geoschmo · #4 August 4th, 2003, 03:36 PM

For those of you hoping that PBW would be back up this morning (Hey, it's Monday, WTF?!?!

) don't expect anything before this afternoon EST. The technician is on the dispatch for sometime after 1 PM. That doesn't mean it will be back up at 1PM, just that that's the earliest he will show up to check things out.

Geoschmo

Erax · #5 August 4th, 2003, 03:51 PM

... and since you believe everything is OK at your end, if you are right then he will check things at your end, find nothing wrong, send your ISP the info and THEN someone will begin to fix the problem.

geoschmo · #6 August 4th, 2003, 03:58 PM

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Originally posted by Erax:
... and since you believe everything is OK at your end, if you are right then he will check things at your end, find nothing wrong, send your ISP the info and THEN someone will begin to fix the problem.

That is what I expect anyway. I suspect the problem is at the CO. From what little I understand about the way DSL works that is where the signal for the DSL is split off from the phone signal sharing the same line.

I have checked all my wiring. Unless there is some wierd problem with the wiring that only block the DSL and allows the phone frequencies through, or if the phone jack on the DSL router burnt out but left the router otherwise totally functional. As I said my LAN runs through it and it works fine still.

Oh well...

Roanon · #7 August 4th, 2003, 05:03 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Unless there is some wierd problem with the wiring that only block the DSL and allows the phone frequencies through

Nearly impossible. I know that the problem can be the other way round, no phone but DSL works. Happend at a site where later was found out that only one of the two incoming phone wires were properly connected. Weird, but obviously you only need one wire for DSL...

The only thing not working at your end that you cannot spot or check is hardware failure in the splitter (that box which splits the incoming signal into phone and DSL) or in the actual DSL modem. Very likely that the problem is there, as the phone is working, so the line to your house should be ok. And that could be fixed by the technician fast, he should have spare units. Let us all hope...