---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <CAH8yC8nfAaN1sh4fQt22BsJR_N4yYBByL9GzmDh7wxNEQ=_utQ@mail.gmail.com> Date: 15 Oct 2020 16:39:19 -0400 From: "Jeffrey Walton" <noloader@gmail.com> Subject: Re: CO backup power On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 8:59 PM Eric Tappert <tappert@ieee.org> wrote: > ... > Unfortunately, I think Bill is right - phone service these days is > "when we feel like it". This is very true of Verizon in Maryland. Steve Marquess used to run the OpenSSL Foundation out of his house. It hosted a lot of services the project used. Steve lives in Adamstown. MD 21710. It is a rural area outside of Frederick. Steve purchased a T1 for the house and some sort of contract for "top tier" maintenance service level. If I recall, Verizon would actively monitor for trouble and be on site within about one hour of trouble. In the old days everything worked as expected when the squirrels chewed the wire or tree limbs damaged the line. Under the new Verizon everything is wireless. Verizon does not honor the service level, and he's lucky to get someone to the house 2 or 3 days after trouble begins. Steve got fed up and put a wireless tower in his backyard in hopes of avoiding Verizon's physical plant in the rural area. He sent me links to the pictures of the construction at his house and wrote: Good luck downloading them over my crappy internet connection, though... you'll get some just fine and then hang on other download attempts. You just need to keep clicking, or wait and try later. That's a Verizon business T1 nowadays. Jeff ------------------------------ Message-ID: <a51042f7-e95e-10b8-da74-5cf3be5b89de@veridicalsystems.com> Date: 17 Oct 2020 19:13:53 -0400 From: "Steve Marquess" <marquess@veridicalsystems.com> Subject: Re: CO backup power Jeff's comments are accurate; I had T1 service for years -- the only viable connectivity option where I live -- until the quality of service declined rather abruptly. The fault may well lie with Level 3 as well as Verizon, as that decline coincided with the acquisition of Level 3 by CenturyLink. Outages (all too frequent with a 40,000 foot run to the CO) went from hours to days; not acceptable when you're trying to run a business. Verizon POTS quality also declined very dramatically; I had up to six POTS lines at various times (now I have none). So when my $22K T1 contract came up for renewal in late 2016 I decided to spend a small fortune on an antenna tower for line-of-sight access to local WISPs (I live in rough terrain). That has been much more reliable, not to mention way cheaper. -Steve M. -- Steve Marquess Veridical Systems, Inc. 1829 Mount Ephraim Road Adamstown, MD 21710 301-874-2571 marquess@veridicalsystems.com gpg/pgp key: http://veridicalsystems.com/docs/0x2FC01B38-pub.asc ------------------------------ Message-ID: <CAH8yC8mVDhu5Z-uximudCv_1GSNHqAs-cwuJ=1bofOU6MUubAg@mail.gmail.com> Date: 17 Oct 2020 20:05:42 -0400 From: "Jeffrey Walton" <noloader@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [tjh@cryptsoft.com: Re: [osf-contact] [nfp] CO backup power quote from Jeffrey Walton] On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 7:14 PM Steve Marquess <marquess@veridicalsystems.com> wrote: > > ... > Jeff's comments are accurate; I had T1 service for years -- the only > viable connectivity option where I live -- until the quality of service > declined rather abruptly. The fault may well lie with Level 3 as well > as Verizon, as that decline coincided with the acquisition of Level 3 by > CenturyLink. Outages (all too frequent with a 40,000 foot run to the > CO) went from hours to days; not acceptable when you're trying to run a > business. > > Verizon POTS quality also declined very dramatically; I had up to six > POTS lines at various times (now I have none). > > So when my $22K T1 contract came up for renewal in late 2016 I decided > to spend a small fortune on an antenna tower for line-of-sight access to > local WISPs (I live in rough terrain). That has been much more > reliable, not to mention way cheaper. Steve, Can you put those pictures of your tower online again and provide a link? Others on the mailing list would probably be amazed at the work you did in an effort to get a reliable connection due to Verizon's declining service levels. (Bill will drop the message if he feels it is too off-topic). Jeff ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 22 Oct 2020