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Roy - Glad you sorta got your fridge situation figured out.
Gerry - Nice progress on the garage.
Funny thing - we stopped in Rural Sask. Canada at a gas station and noticed I only saw Ford Super Duties - I was asking one of the guys that drove in about what to expect ahead on the highway, etc... We started talking about trucks and apparently they can't run Dodges out in the fields because it ATTRACTS the moose!!! Only brand to do it too... I about lost my lunch when we said that... Apparently they not only LOOK like Moose, they attract them. And then the new Chebbies have a low power idle feature that if they idle for more than 10 minutes they go into low power mode and they have to drive them for 5-10 minutes to get them out of it. And they have all kinds of issues with them, especially in the cold winters. Something about the Canadian version of the US EPA with those rules... Maybe Darren or Gerry can chime in on that, first I heard about it.
Gerry - Nice progress on the garage.
Funny thing - we stopped in Rural Sask. Canada at a gas station and noticed I only saw Ford Super Duties - I was asking one of the guys that drove in about what to expect ahead on the highway, etc... We started talking about trucks and apparently they can't run Dodges out in the fields because it ATTRACTS the moose!!! Only brand to do it too... I about lost my lunch when we said that... Apparently they not only LOOK like Moose, they attract them. And then the new Chebbies have a low power idle feature that if they idle for more than 10 minutes they go into low power mode and they have to drive them for 5-10 minutes to get them out of it. And they have all kinds of issues with them, especially in the cold winters. Something about the Canadian version of the US EPA with those rules... Maybe Darren or Gerry can chime in on that, first I heard about it.
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Thank You .....
Good to hear from ya. How is the house hunting process going....?
Roy - Glad you sorta got your fridge situation figured out.
Gerry - Nice progress on the garage.
Funny thing - we stopped in Rural Sask. Canada at a gas station and noticed I only saw Ford Super Duties - I was asking one of the guys that drove in about what to expect ahead on the highway, etc... We started talking about trucks and apparently they can't run Dodges out in the fields because it ATTRACTS the moose!!! Only brand to do it too... I about lost my lunch when we said that... Apparently they not only LOOK like Moose, they attract them. And then the new Chebbies have a low power idle feature that if they idle for more than 10 minutes they go into low power mode and they have to drive them for 5-10 minutes to get them out of it. And they have all kinds of issues with them, especially in the cold winters. Something about the Canadian version of the US EPA with those rules... Maybe Darren or Gerry can chime in on that, first I heard about it.
Gerry - Nice progress on the garage.
Funny thing - we stopped in Rural Sask. Canada at a gas station and noticed I only saw Ford Super Duties - I was asking one of the guys that drove in about what to expect ahead on the highway, etc... We started talking about trucks and apparently they can't run Dodges out in the fields because it ATTRACTS the moose!!! Only brand to do it too... I about lost my lunch when we said that... Apparently they not only LOOK like Moose, they attract them. And then the new Chebbies have a low power idle feature that if they idle for more than 10 minutes they go into low power mode and they have to drive them for 5-10 minutes to get them out of it. And they have all kinds of issues with them, especially in the cold winters. Something about the Canadian version of the US EPA with those rules... Maybe Darren or Gerry can chime in on that, first I heard about it.
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07-30-2014, 12:17 AM
Man, it's just been a frustrating evening.
As you may have seen in the other thread, I broke the wires that go to my rear left door on my truck. So I think I'm just going to solder and shrinkwrap it for tonight. Solder isn't very flexible either though, then again neither are crimp joints. So I think the correct solution would be to just buy an entire harness. But would the new harness develop the same issue under identical stresses...
ALL at the same time whilst dealing with my internet going down and generally being of quite high latency... signal to noise is very poor right now: 2.5dB is not enough of a difference to correctly pick data out of the line noise and I'm surprised it's even syncing up at all. This connection is a backup so it's not affecting other services (such as serving up the images you see in my posts) but it is causing VPN tunnels to drop and me to take a few tries to even get this post to send!
Negative is bad, that's total Loss of Service, and any positive numbers are getting into the high zone... this is a graph of response time to the next-hop gateway.
To provide some context... my connection has been pretty flawless up until recent weeks. Typically I'm looking at round trip times to the next-hop gateway around the 35ms range. In March the telco upgraded a UMC that had Nokia equipment to an Alcatel DSLAM and I could see that improved service a little bit in the form of reduced latency. Then right at the end of May I started seeing major issues.
I've got 2 trouble tickets open on this issue and I've escalated it up another tier... one for the copper cable repair and the other for DSL service delivery.
My line is actually quite long, we're looking at about 4.3km end to end and about 14 pedestals in between. I'm running borderline for the ADSL2+ specifications so any small change in line quality can make or break my link.
As many of you all know I'm a communication tech by trade and I work on these issues all day... come home to deal with more of the same issues!
Other techies may be able to also interpret this output from my ADSL HWIC card, but basically I'm looking at noise margin - which is low, attenuation, which is borderline high, and Activations greater than 1 which means the link has dropped and had to resync that many number of times.
Well anyway I know you guys may not really care or understand but I had to vent a little bit. Sorry...
Back to putting my truck back together before I have to go to bed. And deal with fibre optic installation in the morning. Unfortunately not at my house.
As you may have seen in the other thread, I broke the wires that go to my rear left door on my truck. So I think I'm just going to solder and shrinkwrap it for tonight. Solder isn't very flexible either though, then again neither are crimp joints. So I think the correct solution would be to just buy an entire harness. But would the new harness develop the same issue under identical stresses...
ALL at the same time whilst dealing with my internet going down and generally being of quite high latency... signal to noise is very poor right now: 2.5dB is not enough of a difference to correctly pick data out of the line noise and I'm surprised it's even syncing up at all. This connection is a backup so it's not affecting other services (such as serving up the images you see in my posts) but it is causing VPN tunnels to drop and me to take a few tries to even get this post to send!
Negative is bad, that's total Loss of Service, and any positive numbers are getting into the high zone... this is a graph of response time to the next-hop gateway.
To provide some context... my connection has been pretty flawless up until recent weeks. Typically I'm looking at round trip times to the next-hop gateway around the 35ms range. In March the telco upgraded a UMC that had Nokia equipment to an Alcatel DSLAM and I could see that improved service a little bit in the form of reduced latency. Then right at the end of May I started seeing major issues.
I've got 2 trouble tickets open on this issue and I've escalated it up another tier... one for the copper cable repair and the other for DSL service delivery.
My line is actually quite long, we're looking at about 4.3km end to end and about 14 pedestals in between. I'm running borderline for the ADSL2+ specifications so any small change in line quality can make or break my link.
As many of you all know I'm a communication tech by trade and I work on these issues all day... come home to deal with more of the same issues!
Code:
ATM0/0/0 Alcatel 20190 chipset information ATU-R (DS) ATU-C (US) Modem Status: Showtime (DMTDSL_SHOWTIME) DSL Mode: ITU G.992.5 (ADSL2+) Annex A ITU STD NUM: 0x03 0x2 Chip Vendor ID: 'STMI' 'BDCM' Chip Vendor Specific: 0x0000 0xA1F8 Chip Vendor Country: 0x0F 0xB5 Modem Vendor ID: 'CSCO' 'BDCM' Modem Vendor Specific: 0x0000 0x0000 Modem Vendor Country: 0xB5 0xB5 Serial Number Near: FOC11285YNJCISCO73993206 Serial Number Far: Chip ID: C196 (0) DFE BOM: DFE3.0 Annex A (1) Capacity Used: 95% 100% Noise Margin: 2.5 dB 10.5 dB Output Power: 17.0 dBm 8.5 dBm Attenuation: 41.0 dB 23.0 dB FEC ES Errors: 20093 803 ES Errors: 467 221 SES Errors: 127 12 LOSES Errors: 17 0 UES Errors: 44 8299 Defect Status: None None Last Fail Code: None Watchdog Counter: 0xA4 Watchdog Resets: 0 Selftest Result: 0x00 Subfunction: 0x00 Interrupts: 6408 (0 spurious) PHY Access Err: 0 Activations: 11 LED Status: OFF LED On Time: 0 LED Off Time: 0 Init FW: init_3.0.010_nobist.bin Operation FW: AMR-3.0.010.bin FW Source: external FW Version: 3.0.10 DS Channel1 DS Channel0 US Channel1 US Channel0 Speed (kbps): 0 3520 0 945 Cells: 0 1000 0 33490759 Reed-Solomon EC: 0 9356 0 11816 CRC Errors: 0 2 0 851 Header Errors: 0 0 0 12746 Total BER: 0E-0 3051E-12 Leakage Average BER: 0E-0 1797E-12 Interleave Delay: 0 23 0 0 ATU-R (DS) ATU-C (US) Bitswap: enabled enabled Bitswap success: 0 0 Bitswap failure: 0 0
Well anyway I know you guys may not really care or understand but I had to vent a little bit. Sorry...
Back to putting my truck back together before I have to go to bed. And deal with fibre optic installation in the morning. Unfortunately not at my house.
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