Date   : Wed, 12 May 2010 18:43:04 +1030
From   : station240@... (paul aslin)
Subject: [OT] ADSL capabilities

> From: andrew.hancock@...
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 18:17:14 +0100
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] [OT] ADSL capabilities
>
> Firstly many thanks to all that have contributed to this thread, and sorry
> for using the list as a sounding board.
>
> Is a "better" different router (Netgear, 2Wire) going to help us, with
> variable intermittent SNR/Att, when 90% of the time it's okay.
>
> After tracking temperature and SNR over the past few days, I think I've hit
> the nail on the head...please read on, is this possible...
>
> Telephone Line warms up later a real drop in temperature, gets cold,
> contracts problem occurs.
>
> Line is cold, warms up, expands problem occurs.
>
> This what we've observed over the last few days, when temp dropped to -2
> Degrees C. I can only hypothise about contracting and expansion, but the
> problems occur with rise and fall of temp.
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew
>
> PS Good News is BT are back on Friday, to "walk the line" and I don't think
> that's anything to do with Johnny Cash!

You've got a bad join in the cable, the tech has to go for a walk to get
to some of the pits. Start at one end of the phone line and trace until they
find a fault (could be more than one).

Here in Australia the phone network and the company that own it is... Lets 
just say lots of people have temperature/water related faults. The government
are starting their own company to build a 100mb/s fibre to bypass the whole
mess. Cost $38 Billion, says how bad things are now. Trust me you have a good.


                                         
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