🚀 go-pugleaf

Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:

>Friend had dry DSL installed, they never had voice service where they love 
>jnow. The install date passed and the box of junk from AT&T arrived. They 
>plugged stuff in and nothing happend.

>I take a look and sure enough, their phone line runs to the netpop but is 
>disconnected from everything.

>I try to locate a data signal with a tracing probe. Out of 12 pairs, 
>nobody has dialtone in that building, but one pair sounded data-ish.

>I disconnect whatever on the noisy line, connect their line and everything 
>works.

>There was data-ish noise on the house pair that was connected to that 
>block so I suspect there was another DSL user on there until I showed up.

>Their line wasn't tagged so whatever.

>I can't inagine AT&T has the ability to tell me what pairs they used for 
>the circuit that runs into the building, and missing days of work to meet 
>some line installer that will lcharge like $175 or whatever it is they 
>charge now seemed bogus as there wasn't even a second data circuit coming 
>into the building so they probably fucked something up to start with.

>So the lesson is without voice service, it's hard to located and identify 
>phone lines.

Fuck AT&T. The install isn't complete until they send out an installer to
identify the line, even if you are completing the hookup to the inside
wire. Doesn't AT&T have enough access just to hang a fucking tag to identify
the loop?