adsl but dial tone gone

The dial tone has disappeared from our line today but the
internet connection is still there. (Incoming calls were
diverted to a mobile before I was home from work so I don't know
if it will still receive incoming calls). Is this likely to be
because of something having been altered at the exchange? It
seems very odd to me and I'd appreciate a basic explanation of
how this can happen.

thanks
Syd

Syd Hancock wrote:

> The dial tone has disappeared from our line today but the
> internet connection is still there. (Incoming calls were
> diverted to a mobile before I was home from work so I don't know
> if it will still receive incoming calls). Is this likely to be
> because of something having been altered at the exchange? It
> seems very odd to me and I'd appreciate a basic explanation of
> how this can happen.
>
> thanks
> Syd

This has happened to our line a number of times. Iirc BT call it a "Pair
fault".

It appears to be a quite common issue, but BT are usually quite prompt
at resolving it (it's happened here 3 times this year, each of which was
resolved within 16 hours of reporting).

If you've not done so already, I'd recommend reporting it via:
https://www.cs-server1.bt.com/hhway-...TimeFR.frLogin

hth.

"Syd Hancock" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:d17fkn$ulq$(E-Mail Removed)...
> The dial tone has disappeared from our line today but the
> internet connection is still there. (Incoming calls were
> diverted to a mobile before I was home from work so I don't know
> if it will still receive incoming calls). Is this likely to be
> because of something having been altered at the exchange? It
> seems very odd to me and I'd appreciate a basic explanation of
> how this can happen.

Could be all sorts of things. Our line was a short circuit (at DC) a few
weeks ago. Needed the pavement digging up to fix it. We had no telephone
service at all for 10 days. ADSL worked fine throughout though! (Not that I
told BT in case it affected our compensation...)

ADSL is basically a radio signal, so it travels on the surface of a
conductor rather than in the middle. You don't need a traditional DC circuit
for it to work, just a wire from one end to the other will do. Sometimes
even a wire with small gaps in works!

It makes me wonder just how bad those voice lines are that get *refused* an
ADSL service...

Cheers,
Dan.

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 at 20:13:11, Syd Hancock (Syd Hancock
<(E-Mail Removed)>) wrote:
>The dial tone has disappeared from our line today but the
>internet connection is still there. (Incoming calls were
>diverted to a mobile before I was home from work so I don't know
>if it will still receive incoming calls). Is this likely to be
>because of something having been altered at the exchange? It
>seems very odd to me and I'd appreciate a basic explanation of
>how this can happen.
>
>thanks
>Syd
>
Not quite the same, but we had horrible screeching on our line for
about 12 hours (like a very loud dialup modem permanently connected)
they day before we were connected. Not being used to what it would
sound, I thought it was how a phone without a filter would sound
--
Mike

Martyn Dewar wrote:

> Syd Hancock wrote:
>
>> The dial tone has disappeared from our line today but the
>> internet connection is still there. (Incoming calls were
>> diverted to a mobile before I was home from work so I don't
>> know if it will still receive incoming calls). Is this likely
>> to be because of something having been altered at the
>> exchange? It seems very odd to me and I'd appreciate a basic
>> explanation of how this can happen.
>>
>> thanks
>> Syd
>
> This has happened to our line a number of times. Iirc BT call
> it a "Pair fault".
>
> It appears to be a quite common issue, but BT are usually quite
> prompt at resolving it (it's happened here 3 times this year,
> each of which was resolved within 16 hours of reporting).
>
> If you've not done so already, I'd recommend reporting it via:
>
https://www.cs-server1.bt.com/hhway-...TimeFR.frLogin

Many thanks to all for replies and explanations.

FWIW we reported the fault as soon as it was noticed yesterday
morning and are waiting for a repair. We live just outside a
village on the end of a long length of wire that at time passes
through some trees. When the wind blows the branches damage the
wires. We had five outages since last summer but neither BT nor
the trees owner seem interested in doing anything to remove the
cause of the problem. Ho hum.

Syd