I wouldn't say it's exactly "normal" but it happens. I live in the RTP
area of NC (and in Verizon land rather than bellsouth) and when it
rains here, one of our office fax lines stops working, and our DSL
used to get intermittent. We had to complain many times to the phone
company before the DSL line got fixed. Getting a new box outside our
building seemed to help a little, but the main problem seemed to be
elsewhere (as the DSL problems remained until the phone company did
something).
Scott
On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:06 PM, DHSinclair wrote:
Not wanting to start a big controversy here. Just want to know what
to expect
in the future with my current DSL provider (BellSouth/ATT).
Is it normal (expected) that when I have rain locally, I should
expect my DSL
connection to go away?
By "go away" I mean to say that my router says the connection is
made, is
still clicking over "time connected", has an IP addy and such. But,
no
client can surf the web via the router until I do (often multiple
times) the
disconnect/reconnect dance.
I do live in an older sub-division so I accept that the phone lines
could be very old.
What I do not know is how to discuss this with the provider.
Never had this observation in SoCal that first time; but then, it
never rains in SoCal,
so the song says............. :)
Best,
D
