Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:09:41 -0500 From: spampling Subject: Re: Moving ISP Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:54:32 +0100 Message-ID: <52cd68f9c4spam.pling@btinternet.com> References: <52c95573badave@davenoise.co.uk> <52ca5edc29dave@davenoise.co.uk> <0c8c63ca52.Brian@bhowlett.plus.net> <52ca6478dfdave@davenoise.co.uk> <52ccf24548alan.dawes@argonet.co.uk> User-Agent: Pluto/2.05-a1 (RISC-OS/4.02) NewsHound/v1.50-32 Organization: Que? Orga-what Lines: 14 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-XLs+qDlg0QEIOXjR/PzLxFPtJVwGhqtJU6iqF1qCl04s68cwcMYCrc3P7XfbTzVUJ3GtebFK3CAdCRb!vd6JY35uX/NyhQ6nU5xhGsvQDac9tU2qxnvF23xehbeW/6BV4ZZ+Tp9dE667cH5gJ6Oo9XA= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1744 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:6401 In article , Paul Oates wrote: > One downside of fibre is that if you have an intermittent fault, it > can be difficult to find the cause. Fibre faults are limited to the transceiver at each end and the fibre itself. OTDR can locate physical fibre faults to within a metre on short runs (normal exchange to home length[1]) [1] Yes, some folks live in the boonies and the runs count as medium. -- Steve Pampling