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royroy
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Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject:
Cavalier Drops the Ball |
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Boy, here is a real blast at Cavalier, I discovered on the www this
morning at my favorite online newspaper, www.virginianewssource.com
I was considering Cavalier as my dsl source until I read this one.
"Cavalier Drops The Ball
"Due to the lack of network services caused by Cavalier's inabilty to
provide us a stable connection, Virginia News Source will be late
getting updated today. "Water in the lines is the problem..." says
Cavalier Tech support ..... YESTERDAY! We will update the news when
Cavalier decides to get on the ball."
"Water in the lines" Is that a valid problem. From the readers
viewpoint, whatever they were using before worked well until they
attempted to shift to Cavalier. Why didn't the water bother them
them? |
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Rod Smith
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Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:13 pm Post subject:
Re: Cavalier Drops the Ball |
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In article <0rrhv09a2gdsd3k1n7ci4duih2rrhhteh9@4ax.com>,
royroy <starrin@exis.net> writes:
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"Water in the lines" Is that a valid problem. From the readers
viewpoint, whatever they were using before worked well until they
attempted to shift to Cavalier. Why didn't the water bother them
them?
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Water can accumulate in underground spaces used to feed telephone and
other cables to homes and businesses. When this happens, the signal will
be degraded. I've had this happen to me with land-line telephone service
(pre-DSL), and it completely ruined my ability to make a conventional
modem connection because of all the crackling noises. (They were audible
even on voice calls.) In my case, the problem just cropped up after close
to a year of living in a place. It would appear when it rained, then go
away a few hours after the rain stopped.
As to why the problem occurred when the company you cite changed
carriers, I don't know. It could be their old carrier used a physically
different cable, run through different passages; or perhaps they changed
physical cables within a bundle and happened to get one that was more
susceptible to the problem; or it could be coincidence, and the leak just
developed at about the same time. I'm not familiar with Cavalier, but
most DSL providers rely on the local phone company to handle the physical
phone lines up to the customer's premises. If the claim of water problems
is true, that's a problem with the local phone company's infrastructure,
and would be as likely to occur with one carrier as with another. In
other words, I wouldn't cast too many stones at Cavalier over this; they
didn't cause the problem, and there's very little they can do to fix it,
aside from complain to the local phone company.
--
Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux, FreeBSD, and networking |
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Zeppo
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Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject:
Re: Cavalier Drops the Ball |
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That could explain the sluggishness of my DSL connection for the last 2
days. It's been intermittent and only barely noticeable.
I've been using CAVTEL for about 6 months now. While the service has not
been not perfect it hasn't been a terrible experience. I've had 2 problems
that impacted availability, one of which was extended (8 hours). Generally
however, its been available about as much as my girlfriends Comcast cable
connection, and a tad faster.
I've felt comfortable recommending it to friends.
Jon
"royroy" <starrin@exis.net> wrote in message
news:0rrhv09a2gdsd3k1n7ci4duih2rrhhteh9@4ax.com...
| Quote: | Boy, here is a real blast at Cavalier, I discovered on the www this
morning at my favorite online newspaper, www.virginianewssource.com
I was considering Cavalier as my dsl source until I read this one.
"Cavalier Drops The Ball
"Due to the lack of network services caused by Cavalier's inabilty to
provide us a stable connection, Virginia News Source will be late
getting updated today. "Water in the lines is the problem..." says
Cavalier Tech support ..... YESTERDAY! We will update the news when
Cavalier decides to get on the ball."
"Water in the lines" Is that a valid problem. From the readers
viewpoint, whatever they were using before worked well until they
attempted to shift to Cavalier. Why didn't the water bother them
them? |
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