Re: 56k from USR

Chris E Oestreich (ceo@lambda.lambda.net)
Fri, 18 Oct 1996 15:33:16 -0400 (EDT)

Check your SPIDS. My SPIDS are completely out of the norm. The typical
spid here in GA with bellsouth would look like this

77023532870100

Mine are as follows

11106200010100

I have hunting on my lines with makes the spids different in the translation.

if I call bellsouth ISDN service they will tell me that my spid is the
1st number I gave but after alot of screaming to bellsouth and getting
someone on the line that new what she was looking for she found the
correct SPIDS burried in the translations file. The service reps are
unaware of this type of spid and will just tell you what the norm is
according to yournumber.

Hope this helps.

Chris

On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Dick
St.Peters wrote:

> > > Occasionally, even the phone company merits a little defending. I
> > > have a growing number of clients getting 33.6 on my NYNEX copper.
> >
> > You are a lucky, lucky person :) I'm trying to get NYNEX to fix
> > an ISDN line here - the 2nd B channel on one of our ISDN over
> > Centrex lines hasn't worked since they "fixed" it a couple of weeks
> > back (it dropped completely then), Turns out the Digital Services
> > group, which handles ISDN gets overridden by the Centrex group since
> > this is on a Centrex line. The Centrex group apparently can't even
> > spell ISDN.
>
> If I'm lucky with my copper, I'm lucky at four widely dispersed sites,
> three of them NYNEX (and one GTE).
>
> But I hardly said NYNEX was perfect; I just feel criticisms carry more
> weight if what a company/person/spouse/pet/whatever does right is also
> acknowledged. I realize this is considered a bit quaint these days.
>
> As for ISDN, I can't even get anything except virtual ISDN here, and
> last I heard NYNEX has no plans ever to offer real ISDN here. And I
> have yet to get either of my two BRI's to work at all. However, since
> I can barely spell ISDN myself, I'm not ready to blame NYNEX (yet).
>
> So far, though, I am baffled and stymied. NYNEX says I have 5ESS/NI-1
> service, but they give me a SPID different from what the Livingston
> website FAQ says I should have. NYNEX says its the phone number,
> complete with area code, with a TID of 00. The Livingston website FAQ
> says the SPID should be the 01+<7-digit local number>+TID. I can't
> get either format, or any of a multitude of variations, to work. I
> just get a nice pretty green LED staring at me and a PM that says
> NO-SERVICE and a bunch of
> S20: Register Failed - Telco Not Responding
> S20: Received Disconnect Ack Temporary Failure
> S21: Register Failed - Telco Not Responding
> S21: Received Disconnect Ack Temporary Failure
> over and over.
>
> --
> Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, Pearly Gateway, Ballston Spa, NY
> stpeters@NetHeaven.com Owner, NetHeaven 518-885-1295/800-910-6671
> Albany/Saratoga/Glens Falls/North Creek/Lake Placid/Blue Mountain Lake
> First Internet service based in the 518 area code
>