Line Occupancy and DSL

[LuDaCriS66]

Does anyone know what determines line occupancy on a phone line? I'm wondering cuz my DSL service is upgrading all 1meg lines to 1.5 but only if your line occupancy is below 80%.
My modem doesn't have the capability of checking line occupancy so I was wondering what determines it.
Is it the number of phones connected to the line.. or a residential thing?

 

[StraightPipe]

I would guess that they mean the occupancy of the neighborhood.

I'm not really familiar with the stat.

It doesnt really make sense though, I'd figure they would add the bandwidth to the lines that are being used more (occupancy?). Unless, they had some other plans for the high use lines.

-Thass my story and I'm stick'n to it.

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Yeah, I'm not sure. I was wondering because they started doing the upgrades at the beginning of June and I still haven't recieved it yet.... plus I've got like 6-7 phones hooked up in the house and I was wondering if that had anything to do with the line occupation.

 

[OverVolt]

You must talk a-lot on the phone.

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Originally posted by: OverVolt
You must talk a-lot on the phone.

It's the women of the house I tell ya.. a phone in almost every room.. it ain't right.

 

[JBT]

tell her to get a cordless..... probably have a few of those anyways. haha women

 

[camara120]

LuDaCriS66,

I'm more familiar with this being called "Relative Capacity." It has nothing to do with the other phones in your area. It has specifically to do with the DSL on your telephone line.

Relative Capacity is the percentage of the line that is being used to maintain a DSL signal. You dont want this number to be too high. If you had a Relative Capacity of 100%, your line would be very flakey since it would just take a little bit of noise or interference to knock you off your connection.

Relative Capacity is affectected by a number of things, but mainly your distance from the CO (Central Office). Other things that can negatively affect it are not using filters on the phone lines, bad inside wiring, a bad jack, bad RJ11 cable, or other problems on the line that are outside your control.

 

[buleyb]

location, ISP? it might affect others 🙂