Connection reliability

[Keith Morse]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Ben Duncan wrote:

> !!!MAKE SURE!!! the Telco has their equipment set to B8ZS / ESF. I 
> have had the GOOD
> fortune of Working with Hell SOuth ... errr bell south and the T1 card 
> in the Tandem was set to
> AMI, even thought we were suppose to be running B8ZS. Same problem. It 
> would sync and stay
> for a while, then drop. They swore that their equipment in the Tandem 
> was set correctly.
> Luckie for me, I was setting up an ISP for a ILEC and they MADE SB go 
> out to the tandem
> and check ... guess what ... WRONG settings on their end.
> 
> Moral of the story - Trust the lineman and MAKE the Telco go out and 
> DOUBLE check the equipment.


A shame you didn't have a T-1 sniffer.  Woulda nailed the problem quick.