Herc, Jim,
After once again reviewing your post #3938, I'm more convinced now than I was before that the problems you are having point to Bellsouth.net's access platform configuration, and the amount of resources being made available to it in the edge. The clincher was your ability to get excellent performance when you used their 888 remote number to access their service. This precludes the copper loop from being at fault, immediately.
In this case, the 'edge' consists of those connections and network elements which reside between the dial in concentrator box (e.g., a MAX TNT) and the upstream router connections towards the network core.
A single action on the part of BLS, like reassigning upstream router ports and other resources for use by their DSL platform, for example, or something similar, may have disrupted the previous provisions that were in place to support BLS.net. This conceivably may have impacted not only their own BLS.net access service, but ATT Worldnet's, and Mindsprings, and others, at the same time. It makes sense, if they were all sharing common central office routing resources.
While I feel more comfortable with this explanation now, it still doesn't rule out the other possibilities I've mentioned from eventually taking hold. The consequences of field upgrade work to the copper plant may actually prove to be an additive source of trouble at some point, as well.
Why wasn't your ex-wife's AOL service affected, when she is in the same CO only several blocks away from you? That's a good question.
Perhaps, like I stated earlier, AOL, because of their size, has more of a dedicated presence than the others, hence more clout, and maybe they possess a unique set of dedicated provisions in place for themselves, only. This would make them relatively immune to this level of localized activity for the smaller players. And they are all smaller than AOL.
Or maybe AOL's network surveillance and management was able to catch the disruption in time, thwarting any longer term detrimental effects, by having the matter corrected quickly.
All of this is conjecture on my part, but interesting discussion, nonetheless.
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
