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Fred: City of FRED?
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BT!
BT finally fixed my telephone line!
Apparently there was a faulty cable going from the “cab” to the poll that provides the overhead cable into my house, so the guy just switched that, and now its all working great . My SNR is a lot more stable, and my connection hasn’t dropped since Monday . Another thing I noticed was that my
attenuation is lower than what it was 
.
Total Available Bandwidth          Cells/s          kbit/s
Downstream                :    19308            8187
Upstream                  :     3125            1325
Bearer Generic Info              Downstream       Upstream
INPÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â (DMT)Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â :Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 6.23Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 0.00
Delay       (ms)           :        6.03            0.24
RÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â :Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 16Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 0
Margin      (dB)           :       18.0             7.0
Attenuation (dB)           :       14.0             6.0
OutputPower (dBm)          :       18.0            12.0
Switching to O2 Broadband
As some of you might know, I recently switched from VirginMedia (Cable) to O2 Broadband (ADSL).
To do this, I had to get my BT Telephone line enabled, and my VirginMedia Telephone line canceled.
Although this seemed like an easy task, it was actually more difficult than I had expected.
I wanted to keep my old telephone number that I was using on my VirginMedia line, so BT had to do some number porting things which they said should take 1 week or so. So I waited, and after 1 week, it had not been done! In the end I had to wait 1 month for it to be done.
When the number had finally been ported, there was something strange up with the actual line, and I couldn’t get a dial tone, so a BT engineer had to come around and check it out. He fixed it, but he noticed that there was a lot of noise on the line (crackling sounds). After a bit of tweeking, the noise was bareable, but I wasn’t really fully pleased with that, as it would cause a problem with my ADSL connection once it was activated. Funnily, the noise isn’t there all the time, it is there very faintly at some times of the day, and VERY heavy at other times.
Anyway, I called up O2 and ordered the connection, and after a few days my line was activated and ready to go! BUT, I soon found out that everything was not as good as it seemed.
Whenever the phone rings, or the noise is high on the telephone line, my internet connection dropped and the modem had to re-sync, which takes a while. This sucks since I am an IRC user and I also host an IRC server. Every time the connection dropped, I pingout from all the servers I am connected to, and so does everyone who is connected to mine.
So after a bit of investigation (testing in the master test socket, changing filters, trying a different phone etc), I came to the conclusion that the noise on the line is the only thing that could be causing the disconnections. So I called up BT, and they sent an engineer to check it out, BUT the noise was VERY faint at that time, so he had to leave without doing much, (he checked all the connections where he could etc, but understandably that was all he could really do if the noise wasn’t there at the time).
Even after his checks, the noise is still currently there, so I am having to call BT up again. They told me they will send another engineer around who will check it out and hopefully the noise will be there when he gets here. I don’t know how long this will keep going on for, (an engineer coming to check it out, then leaving cause its not there at that time etc).
Hopefully this problem will be resolved soon as it is driving me insane!
Until then, if anyone has any ideas that may help, please comment!
Back from the dead!
I finally decided to put my blog back up!
Well, its not actually back up really. As some of you might know, I’m learning Ruby and I will re-create my site completly in Ruby on Rails! So for now, this blog is temporary, and I will attempt to “import” all the posts from here, into my new Ruby on Rails blog once it is ready.
So far I LOVE Ruby/RoR! I managed to get a fully functional Photo gallery within 15mins!
I’ve also been playing with various RedHat products and also been learning various things needed to take the Cisco CCNA exam .
I’m trying to learn how to set up RADIUS, LDAP and Kerberos and thought it would be a good idea to try out RedHat Directory Server . Although I would like to understand how to set up OpenLDAP manually, I think RedHat have done a really good job at creating a LDAP server which does everything by its self . It would be really handy in a large organisation.
From looking around the RedHat site, I also found RedHat Enterprise IPA, which seems like a very interesting project. So I will be trying that out later too!
I’m also playing with Active Directory 2003 (Microsoft are giving Windows Server 2003 away for free to students!), and I will try to “connect” RedHat Directory Server and Enterprise IPA, from what I understand, it can be done 
.
Hopefully I’ll be taking Cisco CCNA exam soon, so I’ve been reading various books that “teach” the stuff that I need to know to pass the exam :O.
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