[geeks] computer room gallery 8-)

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 20:18, Rick Hamell wrote:
> > The above mentioned shot was 14 miles! and went down in only the heaviest
> > rain.
> 
> 	That is the one really nice thing about Packet at the time. As
> we're in Oregon, heavy rain is fairly normal. I think we had the power
> tweaked up a bit. The reason we went packet in those days was really bad
> though.

Hmm, where in Oregon does it rain heavily?  I'm in Portland, and we get
moderate rain, at worst.  Certainly nothing like a late summer
thunderstorm in New England.  


> 	Every time it rained, our link went down. We ran it perfectly fine
> in the summer, but the first rain of the year. Nothing. After 6 months of
> dealing with both companines, our ISP, and even the PUC - we put in the
> packet setup with no problems. :) We were fairly certain the problem was
> in US West land, but their competence level was pretty low in the
> area. And since we were essentially a "small" customer... they didn't want
> to do anything with us. :(

US Worst has, as far as I know, 1 competent technician.  Unless they
fired him...  :-)  I hate calling in service on things to them, because
I always know more about it than anybody that I can talk to.
	Greg

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Portland, Oregon, USA.