For those who are not bored with technical details, I will continue. We experienced some initial telephone line problems with the new circuit just after installation. These line problems were repaired by our telephone company. This created an intermittent problem, whose source was discovered on Wednesday, September 9. The defective router was replaced on Friday, September 11.
Intermittent problems are the most difficult to troubleshoot.
Line errors continued on one circuit until Wednesday, September 16. The telephone company found a loose connection on this circuit Wednesday afternoon. Tests were set up over the weekend of September 19. The cyclic-redundancy check errors could have been caused by any piece of equipment or the protocol specification between Charleston and Champaign. We now have functional dual T-1 circuits that deliver Internet access at 3.088 Megabits per second to the campus from the rest of the world.