Well, it looks like I'm back for a while.

SBC came and naturally the intermitant NIGHTLY problem wasn't happening when the service rep got here. He told wife that he couldn't find the problem and swapped wires- everythings cas' -right? I p*ssed the wife off when she told me that, I asked if she got his phone number?

"Why?"

"So we can call him tonight when the problem happens again."

"Hmmmph!"

Wife told him that the reason we dropped the SECOND line was that we were having the same problem as the main line- scratchy and no dial tone.

I just hope this lasts till Jan, when we can get satellite broadband- then we can dump this B.S. uncaring, unhelpful monopoly.