[time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme

Bob Q quenbob5 at pacbell.net
Thu Sep 2 15:29:39 UTC 2010


I can't resist a chance for a minor rant.  Our neighborhood has suffered for
years with noisy land line phone service and occasional outages.  They are
caused by degraded underground cables.  Usually worse in the winter when
moisture gets into things, but my phone is presently so noisy I can barely
use it.  Two repairmen came out, couldn't fix it and passed the problem on
to "Maintenance".  I think that department is in charge of maintaining the
noise.
Bob


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From: "Bob Camp" <lists at rtty.us>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 9:36 AM
To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" 
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Subject: [time-nuts] Off Topic in the Extreme

> Hi
>
>
>
> Back up again on email. It's completely unclear who or what took things
> down. It's also unclear what fixed it. All I can be sure of is I neither
> broke it or fixed it. It came back up today at around 10.
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> I had an "interesting" conversation with an advanced tech support 
> supervisor
> at Century Link / Embarq. According to this gentleman, their lines are 
> only
> guaranteed to pass port 80 traffic (HTTP). Anything other than that is 
> "not
> covered by the service agreement". The only thing they will guarantee you
> can get to is their web site. Past that, if it's broke they have no
> responsibility what so ever for fixing it. That's not referring to port or
> traffic blocking. They all swear they don't and would never do that.
>
>
>
> Since timing and the like are going to things other than port 80, and 
> using
> protocols other than http does, I assume his statements = no timing 
> traffic
> support.
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>
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> The guy could easily have been mistaken, that sort of thing does happen
> around midnight. If what he said is true, any sort of system that relied 
> on
> their network for time would be *very* much in trouble if something subtle
> broke. Being broke in a way that passes one thing and not another is
> unusual, but not impossible. Crazy stuff ..
>
>
>
> Bob
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