In the past I have had problems getting some dialup modems to work properly
when a cordless phone was plugged in to the same house... could this be the
same high resistance loop problem?

You would think that anything with a telepermit wouldn't have this problem
(assuming that it's in fully working order)

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Ian Batterbee [SMTP:ian.batterbee@aut.ac.nz]
        Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 7:52 PM
        To: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
        Subject: DSL dropout problem/solution

        I haven't posted for a while, so I thought I'ld share the story of a
friend of mine (who isn't on the list), who recently got DSL and has had no
end of problems with dropouts - usually DSL would bounce within an hour, and
often in much less time.

        He followed the correct procedure and rung his ISP, who initially
told him it was a known problem called micro-outages and there was nothing
they could do about it. When he told me this, I told him to call them back
and be more persistant - he did, and they logged a fault with telecom.

        Someone came round and looked at it, and determined that the problem
was coming from the modem built into their sky decoder. He was told it was
causing a high resistance loop.

        Plugging or unplugging the modem caused DSL to momentarily drop, and
leaving it in there caused it to drop as described above.

        Unplugging it completely has left his DSL working for over 50 hours
and counting.

        So there you go. Draw your own conclusions.

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