In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

My experience was that when called out on faults, the Alcatel Stingray was never the cause of the problem. Since they were all engineer installed, internal wiring issues were rare, incorrect exchange jumpering, not an issue, you did it yourself on the install. 45db attenuation or less ….

No the alcatel thing worked, but some of the computers customers connected them to would crash, freeze, reboot, some of that was the early version of Windows supporting USB, and others was just the USB spec was a bit early, and 500mA didn't provide much current to run the device. Very few networking tools today use USB.

Testing for sync out in the network meant gaining sync with a USB modem plugged into your work laptop 😀

I hope you had a decent spec laptop that had no USB issues

…. self install put the kibosh on that … internal wiring issues, incorrect set ups, (we gained the nickname ’socket jockeys’ from the copper engineers even though we did both).

Engineer install of an NTE is always the best option, but an NTE that had an industry standard connection that didn't need bespoke software is always better. I know home users that paid for 2mbps ADSL as it came with a router!

Over a quarter of a century ago <sigh>

Yep... I was doing desktop support (10mbps ethernet, 16mbps token ring) at the time, mostly NT 3.51 !!

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In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

My experience was that when called out on faults, the Alcatel Stingray was never the cause of the problem. Since they were all engineer installed, internal wiring issues were rare, incorrect exchange jumpering, not an issue, you did it yourself on the install. 45db attenuation or less ….

No the alcatel thing worked, but some of the computers customers connected them to would crash, freeze, reboot, some of that was the early version of Windows supporting USB, and others was just the USB spec was a bit early, and 500mA didn't provide much current to run the device. Very few networking tools today use USB.

Testing for sync out in the network meant gaining sync with a USB modem plugged into your work laptop 😀

I hope you had a decent spec laptop that had no USB issues

…. self install put the kibosh on that … internal wiring issues, incorrect set ups, (we gained the nickname ’socket jockeys’ from the copper engineers even though we did both).

Engineer install of an NTE is always the best option, but an NTE that had an industry standard connection that didn't need bespoke software is always better. I know home users that paid for 2mbps ADSL as it came with a router!

Over a quarter of a century ago <sigh>

Yep... I was doing desktop support (10mbps ethernet, 16mbps token ring) at the time, mostly NT 3.51 !!

A Panasonic Tough Book. Quite the thing …

Yep, we were installing those Speedtouch routers … had one myself for my 1 meg connection.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

The Nimbus name started with the propiatory x86 hardware that wasn't PC compatible but ran DOS; and then they reused Nimus for the later hardware that was standard memory map and run Windows 3 in 386 Enhanced mode.

Oh wow I had no idea, I just remember having them at secondary school. I also remember playing a game called Barrels (I think) which was a 2d game where you ran across and up/down the screen avoiding barrels to progress to the next level (I maybe oversimplified the game). We also played Doom as a network game but that got us into trouble with the IT Teacher!

The stingray was hiddious looking. I avoided it like the plauge. That said I did get a 1 port westel 8100 for my 2003 adsl connection. Then I migrated to a tg585, which i had for donkey years .. Adsl for 10 years and vdsl for 9 years.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

A Panasonic Tough Book. Quite the thing …

Yes, they are still quite amazing!

Yep, we were installing those Speedtouch routers … had one myself for my 1 meg connection.

I was lucky to be on NTL cable and had their cable modem in 2000, my parents looked at Openworld and didn't sign up stayed on dialup until the wires only and with Pipex who were half the price. ADSLguide was the place to be back then!

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In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

A Panasonic Tough Book. Quite the thing …

Yes, they are still quite amazing!

Yep, we were installing those Speedtouch routers … had one myself for my 1 meg connection.

I was lucky to be on NTL cable and had their cable modem in 2000, my parents looked at Openworld and didn't sign up stayed on dialup until the wires only and with Pipex who were half the price. ADSLguide was the place to be back then!

did you ever go on the adslguide irc chat with seb, john and Mr S 😁?

In reply to a post by Taras:

did you ever go on the adslguide irc chat with seb, john and Mr S 😁?

I don't recall... I did use mIRC back in the Win98/98SE days, for about 18 months. DALnet I think it was called, I browsed through some channels, never really posted.

In reply to a post by Taras:

The stingray was hiddious looking. I avoided it like the plauge. That said I did get a 1 port westel 8100 for my 2003 adsl connection. Then I migrated to a tg585, which i had for donkey years .. Adsl for 10 years and vdsl for 9 years.

I felt otherwise … I thought they looked ‘spacey’.

I stripped the guts out of one, and my kids used to use it as a bath toy.

ADSLguide was the place to be back then!

I was there … called summat else, but I was there. Learned a lot.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

ADSLguide was the place to be back then!

I was there … called summat else, but I was there. Learned a lot.

hehe,

mine was like

"I was there … with the same name, but I was there. Learned a lot."