Tizer wrote: ↑14 Mar 2019, 16:10
f this is the case then wouldn't other broadband users nearby be affected? Could you canvas neighbours to find who else is affected? That might narrow it down a bit more. A more drastic ploy would be to nip out at night and bang the poles to see if it affects your broadband!
No need to do any pole banging Tiz, we have a very blustery day up here today so any direct mechanical fault should have shown up on the engineers line monitoring kit. His test equipment runs a continuous trace of the line integrity on each individual conductor of the pair, it's solid as a rock today. The test fires 50 volts down one wire and loops it back down the other at the exchange any discrepancies show as a spike in the trace, the test can run as long as the engineer requires, it was flat lining today and indicated 98% efficiency, nearly as good as you can get and very good for the distance and route I am on from the cabinet.
Up here on the croft there are a lot of older folk, many will have no broadband installed, there is no apparent noise on the line either so it would not be noticed by land line only users. Kev is right, it may come down to just my pair somewhere on the route. I need it to rain for 40 days and 40 nights.
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Chances are it will eventually fail altogether although it may take some time to get to that stage.