Thanks Guys for the feedback. The feeder box is right outside our building and not a single damm spare pair.....it's a pretty big box too.

Cable Maintence crew got it up and running around noon - after being out all day yesterday. It's something that's been on the backburner as a extra expense, but the SDSL Backup line was ordered today. Hopefully, they will come into a provisioning issue and Verizon will pull a new trunk of cable into the feeder box. Win-Win situation as I get SDSL and now there will be free pairs in the feeder box ;-)

From the feeder box it goes straight to demarc--then to smartjack. But that is not the issue. It's the pair coming off the feeder that seems to be always the issue as the 1st Verizon guy that arrives always has to pass the buck onto the Cable & Maintainance Crew.

I just gotta do some homework and see if I was to order a T1 circuit from Verizon....will their SLA cover the entire LOCAL LOOP all the way back to the DEMARC with the usual 4 hr window. All other *non bell * providers can't put that in their SLA (which is understandable) but if it's a Verizon circuit....me wonders if they do ????

THANKS for the offer Ucrew...