OT: telco folks

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Fri Feb 8 17:30:07 2002

> >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?
>
> Where do you live?
> Older telco cable is prone to temperature changes, causing piss poor
> connections.
> It could be that your cable or local cabinet is just suffering from cold
> weather.

San Bernardino, but it has been unseasonably cold here of late. (Cold for
So. Calif, that is, meaning down in the 30s at night). That could in fact
explain it.

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