Might be bleeding obvious to an ADSL user, but I am on dialup. It should be working perfectly, since it apparently either shares a line that was replaced in 2005; but it started palying up last year, about the time we had quite a lot of precipitation, and hasn't stopped. In the meantime, Telecom has decided it's entitled to charge me extra for features I don't use, for a line I am unable to use for any prolonged length of time.
Back to the 1930s, it seems. On Saturday 22 August 2009 01:47, Euan Clark wrote: > Might be bleeding obvious but I get identical symptoms when a phone's > been plugged in directly to the socket somewhere oin the house rather > than an ADSL filter. > > Wesley Parish wrote: > > I'm just wondering if there are any for Linux, that I could use to get > > hard copy of actual voltage and amperage levels on my Internet connection > > via Telecom's oh-so-wonderful lines. > > > > They cycle from useable to useless in between half=a=minute to a quarter > > of an hour, and I'd like to document that. I may well decide to start a > > class-action suit against Telecom for defrauding the general public, and > > having hard evidence is likely to be vitally important. > > > > Oh, and by the way, Google is indeed my friend in this - when Telecom's > > lines permit me to ask. Telecom's mastered the art of punishing people > > for preferring to use someone else, after it mastered the art of > > punishing them for using Telecom. > > > > Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- George Kelischek - "To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer." ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
