The lines themsevles technically don't change quality at off-peak, but in
practice it can appear that way...
Every time you place a call, it goes through a completely different route
between multiple central offices, depending on the load of that particular
CO when your call is placed. The only thing you can be sure of is it will
hit the CO that your copper pair goes to, and it will hit the CO that your
destinations copper pair runs to. All the CO's in between are picked at
"random" for each call based on the load.
As a result, it is certainly possible that given the load patterns in your
area, that at a particular time of day your call happens to go through a CO
that has some functionally challenged circuits.
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:30 AM
Subject: OT: telco folks
> After aggravation with modem connects early in the morning (around 4 or
5am),
> I was wondering: it seems like the connections are somehow poorer at that
> time -- are the lines lower-quality at off-peak hours?
>
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