A NYNEX moment

[serinde]

Verizon tech support just told one of their aDSL customers (who has an account with us, and who called us to ask "can this possibly be true?!") that the reason her connection is slow is because the Ethernet cable from her router to her Mac is longer than 10'.

Ah, NYNEX. You can change your name as much as you like, but your crusty, rat-infested soul will always shine through.

Comments

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

Ok.

Snarfing ramen noodle soup HURTS!

Thanks for the laugh! :-))))

[tactisle.livejournal.com]

Wow, either the Verizon tech droid was as old as me (and thus remembers the days of non-USB printers), or is a musician (and was thinking of MIDI). Either way, mightily confused.

( I must not assume malice when stupidity will serve. I )
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[arkham1010.livejournal.com]

Nice BS answer, but isnt there a grain of truth to it? IIRC, cat5 suffers from signal degredation after about 1000 feet or so, and thus needs a repeater somewhere to boost the signal. having to repeat all the packets that were degraded could slow things down.

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

Then again, it could be that they're giving out ADSL routers with a sufficiently lame-arsed imitationimplementation of the Ethernet spec that it really does start to show its crapness on a cable longer than 10'. Think back to TTL pseudo-RS-232 and other exercises in quality-cutting.