What I wrote on Tuesday, June 9th:
Just wanted to let you all know what the latest is. On Monday ( the 9th) afternoon around 3 p.m. we had a dial tone on the phone and the DSL was working fine. I headed for the shower because I needed one. *grin* On my way in I heard the phone 'chirp' like it was about to ring, but it didn't. A little while later our DSL connection got flaky but we did have a dial tone, and then the computer no longer got a DSL Internet connection. Since we did have a dial-tone we were able to get a dial-up connection. Later Rain called the phone company to tell them and they scheduled a maintenance visit by the repairman for WEDNESDAY, which was the best day because we were planning on being home (and we told them that!). Well, as we said, we had some errands to run Tues. and didn't get home until around 4:30 p.m. There was a placard from the maintenance man hanging on the door that said, "Sorry we missed you". *sigh* He did say that everything was fine up to the phone-box/stand thingy by the road in front of the property. Unfortunately when we came into the house we had neither a DSL connection OR a dial-tone on the phone - we then had NOTHING. I went to the neighbors and used their phone to call Centurytel and another maintenance ticket was made for a visit by them on Wednesday - the original repair day. After I got back from the neighbors I doubled checked everything I could think of and we had/have no dial-tone at the NID (Network Interface Device). The main box on the outside of the original house before the previous owner added an extra room) and there was/is no dial tone there. A little while later though, we saw that the modem showed we had DSL AND an Internet Connection. YAY! Unfortunately, it was only a connection speed of about 80+ KBPS (nowhere near the 1.5 MBps that we had). Still have no dial-tone on the phone though, but at least we ARE connected, even if it's not as fast as it should be. So hopefully the repair man we get here soon and fix the connection speed and get our phone service back!
As of Today, Friday June 13, 2008:
Another Centurytel repairman was here on Wednesday and spent approx. 5 hrs. trying to figure-out why we didn't have a dial-tone or DSL. He first checked the NID where all the house's phone connections are, and there was no dial-tone there. He then checked the phone jack, only to find that there was a 'short' somewhere in the line, which he determined was a problem with the cord extender I had between the jack and the phone connecting two cords. So he went to his truck and got a longer phone cord and installed it. Unfortunately there was still another problem somewhere. So he installed a new double phone-jack (1 jack for phone and another for DSL). Plus he replaced the NID with another one from his truck and wired it so that there is a direct line for the DSL (to the jack inside the house) and we got rid of all the line-filters for additional phone because he said each on adds the equivalent of a thousand feet to the line. But we WERE getting 1.5 MBps even with 3 of them one each phone (2 in the living room and 1 in the bedroom). That's a moot point now though. Anyway, eventually he went to the main phone center for our area and found that we had a bad "load coil?". He replaced that and we then had our phone service AND DSL back. Gee, he could've saved 5 hours of work if he had checked there first. In his defense though, he and two other maintenance guys are it for DALLAS county and he only gets 5-6 hours of sleep a night and has been working LOTS of overtime, so he was exhausted and burned-out. He also said that we aren't the only ones that are having slow DSL speeds and that Centurytel assures him (like they have for the last couple of months) that the speed "fix" should take effect on June 16. We shall see!
In other news: We went bowling yesterday (Thurs.) and I barely made it over 50 points :-( I just could not find a ball light enough. Rain however has her own ball and scored only 3 points shy of 100. Neither kid did very well either, because they couldn't find a light enough bowling ball for themselves. DD swears she WILL be stronger the next time we bowl, which will be the 2nd Thursday in July.
And last but not least, I got a bunch of mowing done yesterday. Still a small area behind our DD's outbuilding being turned into her new bedroom/hangout. Obviously not going to do that today because it's been raining since early this morning and is still going. Speaking of her new bedroom/hangout, we have the purple wall-paint she wanted. As soon as she gets the loose paper off of the walls she'll be able to put a primer coat on and then her new purple. When it's all said and done she'll have deep purple walls with bright orange trim. She'll have help from a friend who'll be staying for a week in hopefully the not to distant future.
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