Two questions for you guys still working in the industry...
1. I want to pull the old iNID that AT&T is using solely for a protector and demarc and replace it with a regular 2 line NID.
Having a little bit of trouble finding a good quality NID to put in it's place.
Checked ebay and naturally people are selling used demarcs or ones from 20 years ago that I even installed and are just not up to snuff anymore.
Anyone have a source for a good demarc or know what is currently being deployed in UVerse installs when one has to be replaced?
2. Ingress....
I have noticed that CFLs in the house are causing heartburn.
I can see corrected blocks spike when these lights are turned on and seem to roll on up while a nearby CFL is on. No CRC errors, just FEC running like a faucet.
Grounds at the NID are good and for giggles I split line 1 and 2 and ran them separate and grounded the unused pairs on each end and that improved things a lot.
I am thinking shielded cat5 from the NID to the jack where the gateway is.
Thoughts on this?
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