Date   : Thu, 06 May 2010 03:13:27 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: [OT] ADSL capabilities

On 05/05/2010 21:14, Andrew Hancock wrote:

> Electrically nothing has changed in the household since Jan '09 or been
> added.

No new microwave, games console, flat screen TV... Nothing at all?


> What is odd, is this seems to occur, when we get cold spells, and hot
> spells, so frosts, and hot days. E.g. above average or below average
> external temperatures.

Either, or one following another? If the latter, esp. cold followed by 
hot, it could be condensation. Is your line completely underground or 
telegraph poles? Those distribution boxes used in many poles are "crap 
and leaky" (quote (from memory) from an actual BT engineer <g>).


> This issue has happened on both a LLU and BT wholesale circuit, so it
> still suggests an intermittent fault, I would move ISPs,

I'm not sure moving ISPs will help. It's like do you pay EDF or Scottish 
Widows [*] for your electricity? Doesn't matter, it's the same two wires 
into the same meter...


* - I know SW doesn't do electricity (yet?), but given some of the odd
     companies offering...



Best wishes,

Rick.

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