I can't resist a chance for a minor rant. Our neighborhood has suffered for
years with noisy land line phone service and occasional outages. They are
caused by degraded underground cables. Usually worse in the winter when
moisture gets into things, but my phone is presently so noisy I can barely
use it. Two repairmen came out, couldn't fix it and passed the problem on
to "Maintenance". I think that department is in charge of maintaining the
noise.
Bob
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From: "Bob Camp" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 9:36 AM
To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme
Hi
Back up again on email. It's completely unclear who or what took things
down. It's also unclear what fixed it. All I can be sure of is I neither
broke it or fixed it. It came back up today at around 10.
I had an "interesting" conversation with an advanced tech support
supervisor
at Century Link / Embarq. According to this gentleman, their lines are
only
guaranteed to pass port 80 traffic (HTTP). Anything other than that is
"not
covered by the service agreement". The only thing they will guarantee you
can get to is their web site. Past that, if it's broke they have no
responsibility what so ever for fixing it. That's not referring to port or
traffic blocking. They all swear they don't and would never do that.
Since timing and the like are going to things other than port 80, and
using
protocols other than http does, I assume his statements = no timing
traffic
support.
The guy could easily have been mistaken, that sort of thing does happen
around midnight. If what he said is true, any sort of system that relied
on
their network for time would be *very* much in trouble if something subtle
broke. Being broke in a way that passes one thing and not another is
unusual, but not impossible. Crazy stuff ..
Bob
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