telco folks

The lines themsevles technically don't change quality at off-peak, but in practice it can appear that way... Every time you place a call, it goes through a completely different route between multiple central offices, depending on the load of that particular CO when your call is placed. The only thing you can be sure of is it will hit the CO that your copper pair goes to, and it will hit the CO that your destinations copper pair runs to. All the CO's in between are picked at "random" for each call based on the load. As a result, it is certainly possible that given the load patterns in your area, that at a particular time of day your call happens to go through a CO that has some functionally challenged circuits. Jay West ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.eduTo: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.orgSent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:30 AM Subject: OT: telco folks 5am), http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu out" -------------------------------------------------