2008OCT100940
Communication breakdown
Line went dead a couple of days ago. What caused it? Is it the switch? the router? the cat5 cable? the modem? the line filter? phone connection switches? the line connecting to the telephone line?
So the phone company, a fault logged and the line technician comes. Firstly the problem is checked at the exchange.
But the problem is closer to home. Is it outside at the junction? inside the house? No it's outside. Here's the sucker. Coms are down because a 1c piece of wire has burnt out. Replace the wire. Check the phone that it works ....
Back online.
Rare as hens teeth
Talking to the technician who's on job for 30+ years I asked when fibre to the house is going to happen? Fibre to the node is possible but to the house, no. Came to the agreement that wireless is probably going to beat optical fibre. The tech also explained the usual number of lines to a house varies over time. In the past only 1/3 houses had connections and Saturdays were spent collecting the old handsets, collecting them and selling them off to Russia for another life. Then as people started working from home and ADSL became popular these spare lines were chewed up and not replaced. Now it's put more spare lines in and people are backing off using extra phone lines. Interesting stuff.
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2008OCT100940
Communication breakdown
Line went dead a couple of days ago. What caused it? Is it the switch? the router? the cat5 cable? the modem? the line filter? phone connection switches? the line connecting to the telephone line?
So the phone company, a fault logged and the line technician comes. Firstly the problem is checked at the exchange.
But the problem is closer to home. Is it outside at the junction? inside the house? No it's outside. Here's the sucker. Coms are down because a 1c piece of wire has burnt out. Replace the wire. Check the phone that it works ....
Back online.
Rare as hens teeth
Talking to the technician who's on job for 30+ years I asked when fibre to the house is going to happen? Fibre to the node is possible but to the house, no. Came to the agreement that wireless is probably going to beat optical fibre. The tech also explained the usual number of lines to a house varies over time. In the past only 1/3 houses had connections and Saturdays were spent collecting the old handsets, collecting them and selling them off to Russia for another life. Then as people started working from home and ADSL became popular these spare lines were chewed up and not replaced. Now it's put more spare lines in and people are backing off using extra phone lines. Interesting stuff.
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