Kate J. The guys had code words for some of the PITAs who frequently called the help desk. One lady, H.M.3 – high maintenance #3, kept asking for the cord replaced on her phone’s handset. I must’ve replaced it a half dozen times. It turned out that the problem wasn’t the cord, the network itself
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The 5g network will take a year or more to be built out, and the high speed is to me a mixed bag. So with Google Fi, I pay by the GB. I’m paying $24 when I’m using zero data (WiFi only) and I pay up to $83 for 6GB or more. If I get
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From FB group Bell Telephone… 2018-08-31 Gary Stoutenburg I love that comparison. 👍 There’s an old IT adage: “The first 90% of the software takes 10% of the time. The last 10% of the software takes 90% of the time.” The user interface is a big time and money sink, so a lot of corner
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From FB group Bell Telephone… As a customer and the point man who interfaced with the Telco, I have nothing but good to say about all the fine craftspeople I dealt with during my 33 years with the college district. I only wish I could have spoken as highly of other contractors I had to
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From FB group Bell Telephone … I agree. The upside of splitting before is that it won’t interrupt the DSL. The downside is that if there is a failure (loss of continuity or blown fuse) in the splitter, the alarm may never make a call. Most of the alarm panels we had at the college
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This is a link to telecomm information on Tomi Engdahl’s epanorama.net. http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/teleinterface.html#hybrid
This number was most likely from the time when the 714 area code covered the area outside of LA, including all of Southern California San Diego county and east, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, and the east side of the Sierras all the way up to Inyo. I remember that no prefix in Orange County
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This Western Electric 550 or 555 manual switchboard was used in the OUSD Administrative HQ when it was in the old bldg on Glassell that is now the Chapman University College of Law. It was rescued from the dump. I hope to find a new local home for it where it can be seen by
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From FB group Bell Telephone Ohhhhh, Ed Vaughn, you gave me a big headache. Those message waiting lights… We had a 1200 baud MW line directly from the CO to our PBXes, and one PBX then distributed it to dozens of others in the district over the network, not by ethernet, but by XNS over
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