🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, John Navas wrote:

> It sounds like the closest tower has no available capacity to assign you.
> That could be the result of migrating so much capacity to GSM that TDMA is now
> overloaded, but if you can't ever get through, then it's probably just some
> sort of malfunction at the tower.
>
> ...
>
> Nonetheless it could still be temporary -- it can take longer than that to
> correct a tower problem.

Indeed, my phone suddenly started working at the Palo Alto office this 
week.  So I guess it was just a tower glitch that took three weeks to 
correct.

But now I'm having trouble at my other office, which is in Menlo Park near
the Dumbarton Bridge (the Sun Quentin campus).  I have no troble placing
or receiving a call, but whenever I do, it sounds like whoever I'm talking
to is standing at the bottom of a well.  Echoes, dropouts and
robotic-sounding distortion abound.  Yet apparently my own voice comes 
through loud and clear.

Other people have noticed the same problem when driving through this area, 
so I'm hoping that someone is brave enough to complain to ATTWS and get 
the problem fixed.

--Ed

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Ed Swierk
eswierk-nospam@cs.stanford.edu