Thank you, Martin, for the lovely scarf (and the nice postcards). The scarf colors are one of my favorite combinations. It is a treasure!
Thank you, Elliot-from-the-phone-company, who came back on Monday and rewired the phones exactly as I would have wanted, with a filter at the NI and a dedicated run to the high-speed modem. Very neat work, too, and Tam tells me you greeted the cats as if they were small, furry people.
And thank you, Readers, for tolerating my late-Winter slump. Too much snow, too little sunlight, which should be fixing itself any day now. A-hem. Any Day Now...? Well, eventually.
NID filters and homeruns are pretty much standard for DSL installs, especially for 7Mb/s service. At least you had a tech who gets that; back in the day, I often had to explain in
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Might be a good idea to get into your modem stats and save a baseline record of transceiver stats. With Westell, it should somewhere around System Monitoring=>Advanced Statistics=>Transceiver Stats. Saves time arguing with "help desk" dweebs when your service craps out.
Dear Roberta,
ReplyDeletePer winter slump: vitamin D-3 may be of help. You might try 1000 International Units (IU) 3x day; it worked for me. Hope you feel better soon.
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Since Iowa and Indy are approximately on the same horizontal plane, spring might be near. They are talking about near 70 by Sunday. I sure hope so. I'm ready for winter to go away for a while.
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