On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
I did have a problem a year ago where the phone was working
intermittently, but DSL was fine. I have my DSL on a dry loop, so it is
seperate from the phone line. It turned out to be a problem outside
where Bell connected the feed to my demarcation point, so it was their
problem to fix.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 01:00:22PM -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:
I noticed that when the wind picked up, the my connection went
intermittent, that is, it started cutting out in periods of seconds to
minutes. Guess it's time to get Bell a call. :(
Good luck.
We should all hope to have "dry" loops :-)
Bhell had some crappy exterior wiring here in the Civic Hospital area.
Every time it rained, the phone line started to short out. Often, DSL
continued to work in a degraded manner when the POTS quit, but even the
DSL would eventually quit too after getting slower and slower as the
higher frequency channels dropped out. Service came back slowly as the wet
wiring dried, sometimes days later.
(The shorting process somehow caused 911 to be dialed sometimes. Worse
case was when the cops showed up at my front door at 2 AM on a night I was
sleeping, thinking they had a serious call.)
It took Bhell 1.5 YEARS to finally find and fix the degraded exterior
wiring. It was a few blocks from my house.
And it is now again the rainy season...
Brett