Re: [PLUG] Setting ADSL Bandwidth
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: if you have a fujitsu, that implies frame relay and i don't know that it can go past 1.5m. you may need to get converted to atm (westel boxes, Thank you. I'll check with aracnet/spiritone. Sure enough, I need a new 'modem' (bridge). Verizon/Frontier was supposed to have upgraded my circuit and bridge last year, but I'm not the only one they didn't do. Aracnet sent me the new tiny bridge so we'll make the switch Monday or Tuesday; when I can no longer get on the 'Net I'll swap hardware. Thanks for the pointer, Joe! Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Setting ADSL Bandwidth
if you have a fujitsu, that implies frame relay and i don't know that it can go past 1.5m. you may need to get converted to atm (westel boxes, last i looked) to get the higher speed. also, the isp has to update things on their end to send traffic to you at the higher speed, but i'd guess they are on top of that. On 07/24/2011 09:00 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Bill Barry wrote: Have you tried rebooting your modem? Bill, I had not. I just power cycled it (an old Fujitsu model without a power switch so I pulled the plug, paused, reset the plug). No difference. Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Setting ADSL Bandwidth
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Joe Pruett wrote: if you have a fujitsu, that implies frame relay and i don't know that it can go past 1.5m. you may need to get converted to atm (westel boxes, Joe, Thank you. I'll check with aracnet/spiritone. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Setting ADSL Bandwidth
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Mike Connors wrote: Assuming of course, the copper infrastructure from your modem to the telco is actually capable of supporting that b-width speed you requested. Mike, I requested 3M/768K because my location will not support the maximum of 7M/768K. Aracnet checked with Frontier (on line) to find the maximum for here. But at the very least, if they told you the change shouldn't take more than 48 hrs, as a matter of good customer service they should've communicated to why it's taken over a week. I've had excellent service from Aracnet for more than a dozen years so I assume they've not had a response to their follow up ticket with Frontier or I would have been informed. Frontier does not impress me. When they installed FIOS cable a year or two ago, they ran the cable to my neighbor's house in the middle of the strip between their driveway and mine. Directly under the trunks of a couple of sweet gum trees that we had cut down a couple of months ago. When the stump grinder went to work (assuming the cable was off to the side; apperently he did not call for locator service), the fiber optic cable got chewed up. The replacement crew admitted it was originally poorly placed; the stump grinder said he had never cut a cable in the 20 years he's been in business. When the next-to-last Frontier crew came to re-route the newly installed replacement fiber, the did put it deep and against the edge of my neighbor's driveway ... and broke their drain pipe from house gutters to the street. So, another Frontier crew was called out to replace the drain pipe. Since Frontier's technical service business model seems to be based on the Keystone Kops, I should not be surprised the banswidth upgrade has not yet been accomplished. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Setting ADSL Bandwidth
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Bill Barry wrote: Have you tried rebooting your modem? Bill, I had not. I just power cycled it (an old Fujitsu model without a power switch so I pulled the plug, paused, reset the plug). No difference. Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Setting ADSL Bandwidth
Robert == Robert Munro ramu...@speakeasy.net writes: Robert On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:16:47 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard wrote: Last Monday I upgraded my Aracnet account to the maximum bandwidth that Frontier reports for my location (3M down, 768K up). The change was supposed to take no longer than 48 hours. It is now a week and my bandwidth has not incresed (according to speedtest.net). Isn't such a change a matter of a few keystrokes by the Telco? Aracnet/SpiritOne tech support sent Frontier a query on Thursday but has not had a response since then. I'm trying to understand where the problem might be. Robert Aracnet/SpiritOne is your ISP and Frontier (formerly Verizon, Robert perhaps) is the ILEC (telco) or maybe it's a CLEC or DLEC, Robert leasing your circuit from a telco (like Qwest, for example) Robert and reselling that to your ISP. Robert In my admittedly limited experience (as Speakeasy is my ISP, Robert and Covad is the CLEC under the telco, Qwest), provisioning an Robert ADSL line takes a lot longer than 48 hours. That work must be Robert scheduled by the companies and that can take more than one Robert week, perhaps up to two or three weeks. Robert As I understand it, your telco pair terminates in a local Robert telco office, where the voice bandwidth is split off to the Robert POTS circuits, and higher frequency ADSL bandwidth is Robert terminated at the local DSLAM (essentially, a rack of ADSL Robert cards hooked to an edge router, sitting on a fast link). Robert If the ILEC (or CLEC/DLEC) that owns your ADSL card at the Robert DSLAM has to switch that out for a faster one, that could Robert account for a provisioning delay, such as you seem to be Robert experiencing. Robert I only know this because Speakeasy made the entire process Robert transparent, both when I initially ordered my ADSL line and Robert again later, as I moved. It showed me the work orders, Robert schedules and confirmations of work done. Robert You now know everything I do about ADSL provisioning (well, Robert except for fact that apparently the backhaul on my line uses Robert ATM from my DSLAM to Speakeasy's Seattle POP, which sort of Robert blew my mind when I heard that). Robert Perhaps Aracnet/SpiritOne will share its record of orders, Robert etc., to the ILEC/CLEC/DLEC with you. That's what I'd ask for, Robert if I had the problem. Robert This sort of thing makes me hesitate to think about changing Robert my ISP, or even ordering a higher speed link. I can't afford Robert my ADSL link to fail, though I might consider a backup or a Robert dual-homed setup for reliability. s/Qwest/CenturyLink/g -- Russell Senior, President russ...@personaltelco.net ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
