Re: (PM) Serious phone connection issue...

Gerry Dalton (gerry@wts.net)
Sun, 09 May 1999 21:17:08 +0000

Since both of your NAS units have been affected I believe it is a telephone
company problem. If their switch went down, and had to be reloaded from
scratch I will almost guarantee that some settings now are NOT THE SAME as
they were before the outage.

You need to get someone higher up the ladder at the phone company and
explain the problem. Maybe they compressed your circuits or something
stupid like that. But I think from the limited info it's the phone company.

Good Luck !

Been there done that.....didn't get a T shirt either.

Gerry

At 08:56 PM 5/9/99 -0500, Tony Harris wrote:
>Ok,
>
>I have a serious problem here.
>
>Today (sunday) everything was fine in the morning.
>
>This evening, no one can connect above 32K. Average is in the 20's. People
>that used to connect at 42K are now limited to 28.8.
>
>This is screwing my business. I need help. (I wish MZ was here as he would
>probably know the answer to this in a heartbeat)
>
>I have 2 different NAS units (PM3 and a USRTC) on two different CT1's
>I have 2 different phone numbers leading into the separate CT1's
>
>Both are experiencing this problem:
>
>You dial in.
>
>Initial negotiation
>
>Pause for about 2 seconds
>
>Continue connection, connection succedes, except at under 56K speed.
>
>We have tried the following:
>
>Replace the smart jacks
>Disconnect each of the NAS's to see if either was hurting the other for some
>odd reason
>Rebooted both NAS's
>Had the telephone company reset the switch.
>
>Here is the log on my CISCO (my T1 thru this phone company to my upstream:
> Last clearing of "show interface" counters 2w3d
> Input queue: 0/75/0 (size/max/drops); Total output drops: 2
> Queueing strategy: weighted fair
> Output queue: 0/1000/64/0 (size/max total/threshold/drops)
> Conversations 0/14/256 (active/max active/max total)
> Reserved Conversations 0/0 (allocated/max allocated)
> 5 minute input rate 408000 bits/sec, 66 packets/sec
> 5 minute output rate 35000 bits/sec, 51 packets/sec
> 97470101 packets input, 3866690801 bytes, 0 no buffer
> Received 172141 broadcasts, 0 runts, 2 giants, 0 throttles
> 1675 input errors, 743 CRC, 709 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 223 abort
> 68737539 packets output, 760788638 bytes, 0 underruns
> 0 output errors, 0 collisions, 1 interface resets
> 0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
> 4 carrier transitions
> DCD=up DSR=up DTR=up RTS=up CTS=up
>
>Before today, there were 699 CRC errors, which would make it appear that
>something has happened to the line, but it came back up.
>
>But, why are my NAS's doing this? The phone company claims that even tho
>their switch went down for a few minutes this morning, that everything came
>back as normal. They say that the padding has not been affected. They say
>they see no errors on the line at all.
>
>What in the hell could this be? Could some sort of power surge from when
>the switch went from down to up came thru the CT1 and hosed my PM3 and my
>USRTC??
>
>Please - anyone more familiar with these types of issues let me know. Aside
>from having a modem card go bad, and some alarms now and again when the
>lines are tested, we have never had a problem this severe. There is one
>other ISP in the area - the phone company in the neighboring town, and if I
>can't get this fixed, this could end us here - just as we were getting close
>to breaking even.
>
>- A very desparate Tony
>
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