Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Now we are lost, something is not right so someone is wrong and we cannot figure what it is. Does anyone have any ideas or know if there is something the Telco has to do to allow two B channels to bond on a BRI setup?
Ameritech says they do not that it is all done at each equipment end which I know but we are searching for anything at this point.
No...to the telephone company...a bundled connection is two totally seperate, unrelated phone calls.
Well, that depends. I have a customer who was losing his D channel when he brings up his second B channel, you have to make sure the ISDN line isn't hosed. We were able to prove it's a telco issue by plugging telephones into the POTS ports on his router and pull dialtone of both lines, well attempt to pull dialtone on both lines. I took multiple brand routers to his house and they all showed the same problem. And of course the ISDN line tested fine, but upon further review they found some bits were being scrambled in the MUX to the SLC-96. It took 119 days for Ameritech to resolve this, they kept blaming the CPE. Eventually they got some gal on the phone who used a protocol analyzer and said "Boom, this is wrong, this is wrong, click click" and everything has worked fine since. Funny thing was the "Blue Box" tester the techs use seemed to work fine, they must break rules that the routers don't. Of course nobody knows how the bits got scrambled, and the CO itself (A Siemens EWSD switch) is run by Siemens out of Wisconsin. Things shouldn't be this tough. Ameritech sure has gone to hell since SBC took them over, nobody knows anything anymore (more clueless than before SBC), and whenever you call them they use guerrilla marketing techniques on you, even if the call is to the repair department. Are you sure you don't want Super Feature Plan XYZ sir for $70 more a month once your line is fixed? Plus they added a $3.28 "state access charge" to the phone bill on each line, calling the PSC to complain and they tell me SBC just made up that charge and there's nothing they can do about it. Scumbags. -Ron GLISnet, Inc. +1 810/939.9885 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.