[Gllug] [OT] Summer and DSL etc

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On 16 Jun 2010, Jason Clifford said:

> On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 15:03 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>> As has happened before my home DSL connection has because close to
>> useless with the warmer weather - the level of noise on the line
>> actually reaching the point where the POTS doesn't even work at times
>> (this is inner north London, not somewhere in the sticks either).
>
> PSTN doesn't work == fault on the BT phone line. Report it as such. Do
> not mention ADSL or broadband - simply state the evident fault on the
> phone line and insist it be fixed.

I've done that: as of last year, whenever there's rain or snow I start
getting hundreds of line drops. BT say there is no fault and refuse to
fix anything without sending around a *special* engineer, who, if no
fault is found, will hit me with a nice big charge on the assumption
that the fault is in my house (despite the fact that my neighbour can
hear the crackling as well, as can people down the street).

Note that this is an *intermittent* fault.

Nice racket, BT.

> Almost always when that is done the broadband will be reliable again.

I don't have the kind of money it would take to pay for BT's sodding
special engineers.
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