Re: [PLUG] rp-pppoe and Verizon DSL

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On 13 Sep, 2004, at 21:18, Art Alexion wrote:
> Rebecca Ore wrote:
> > Verizon tends to have spates of down times and then long runs of no 
> > problems at all from the Germantown CO.  I suspect different COs have 
> > different ups and downs.
>
> I am in the Abington CO.

The scenario with Verizon seems to be ... DSL runs fine for months, 
until they need to add/repair/upgrade equipment. Then stability goes to 
hell-in-a-hand-basket for a couple of days, weeks or months.

Eventually, they quit "fixing things," and everything runs stable again.

I'm in Evergreen and have seen this pattern repeated now for something 
like about 6 years (since they introduced DSL into Evergreen).  I run 
without problems for six months or more and then, wham! It happens 
again.

All of this has nothing to do with PPPoE. I use DCAnet with static IPs 
(as well as assigned DHCP addresses) and pure IP. The problem is 
clearly with Verizon's DSLAMs or the ATM cloud. If you can watch the 
modem, the link light goes out and comes back ... probably DSLAM 
resets. Other times there are issues with "CO switch reloads" where the 
configuration for the ATM cloud behind the DSLAMs keeps getting 
modified.

Needless to say, Verizon never reports any kind of problem or fix to 
the ISP ... but we watch it happening and then magically "stop."

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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