Scrapps poor POTS line performance:
Scrapps says, "n talking with the PacBell Engineer I know this, There is 5-6 miles between me and the CO not good, there is only one conversion, the lines between me and the CO are constantly having problem, last week my line failed due to corrosion and they plan to run fiber from about a 1/2 mile from me to the CO...if they do that I will be in great shape."
Agreed. If you get a new remote digital subscriber line unit, you will have a short analog loop, and should expect to have good service. In the mean time, you might try complaining about a noisy line to see if you can get moved to a new pair.
In a previous house (now knocked down for road construction), we had a similar problem. The 50 pair underground cable on our street was wet, and extra pairs were running naked in the ditch along the side of the road (be careful not to cut them with the lawnmower!)... because the telco was waiting for the road move to do a major new cable lay. Whoever complained last on the street would get the best, least noisy pair, and someone else, picked apparently at random, would be switched to a damp pair with lots of crosstalk. This was Ameritech, in Illinois, but the same complaining might work for you. Whatever you do, don't tell them that it's a modem line... or they won't care about your problem anymore; it's noisy voice lines that they seem willing to fix. |
