Intermittent ADSL problems with audible noises on line

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:43:46 GMT, (E-Mail Removed) (Clive
Backham) wrote:


>The problem is, because it's intermittent, Sod's Law strikes so that
>every time he gets a BT engineer round to look into it, the problem
>doesn't happen. And of course BT then send him a bill. Recently he's
>noticed that at the times when the modem or router is having problems,
>he can here faint "squeaks" on the voice circuit (he describes it as
>being a little bit like a mouse). Has anyone ever heard of something
>like this before?
I have put up with this problem for over 12 months had several BT bods
round and all have said nothing wrong with your line it must be your
equipment and pointed to our router they shut their gobs and buggered
off when I told them we have had four different routers all giving the
same problem . On Monday I finally said enough is more than enough
Telewest is arriving in the morning to install a cable modem,
telephone line, and a TV box BT and F2S can get stuffed .
All the hassle with this has been making my Angina and ME twice has
bad has it was.
Grant

> I'm trying to help my father-in-law with an ADSL problem, and would
> appreciate anyone's comments.
>
> His ADSL line was working fine for a couple of months, but now it's
> started intermittently having connection problems. He's tried a D-Link
> DSL300T modem and a Solwise ADSL router, and gets the same problem
> with both. Therefore it seems pretty certain that it's a line fault.
> The problem is, because it's intermittent, Sod's Law strikes so that
> every time he gets a BT engineer round to look into it, the problem
> doesn't happen. And of course BT then send him a bill. Recently he's
> noticed that at the times when the modem or router is having problems,
> he can here faint "squeaks" on the voice circuit (he describes it as
> being a little bit like a mouse). Has anyone ever heard of something
> like this before?
> --
> Clive Backham

Does your father-in law have an intruder alarm that uses Redcare monitoring?

Graham.


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I'm trying to help my father-in-law with an ADSL problem, and would
appreciate anyone's comments.

His ADSL line was working fine for a couple of months, but now it's
started intermittently having connection problems. He's tried a D-Link
DSL300T modem and a Solwise ADSL router, and gets the same problem
with both. Therefore it seems pretty certain that it's a line fault.
The problem is, because it's intermittent, Sod's Law strikes so that
every time he gets a BT engineer round to look into it, the problem
doesn't happen. And of course BT then send him a bill. Recently he's
noticed that at the times when the modem or router is having problems,
he can here faint "squeaks" on the voice circuit (he describes it as
being a little bit like a mouse). Has anyone ever heard of something
like this before?
--
Clive Backham

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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
Clive Backham <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I'm trying to help my father-in-law with an ADSL problem, and would
> appreciate anyone's comments.

Swap the microfilter for another one, preferably known good, definitely
conforming to SIN356.

I spent the weekend in the press and photographers centres at
Silverstone, inter alia doing a little light support of photographers'
DSL circuits. Dodgy microfilters were a good portion of the problems.

ian

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have put up with this problem for over 12 months had several BT bods
> round and all have said nothing wrong with your line it must be your
> equipment and pointed to our router they shut their gobs and buggered
> off when I told them we have had four different routers all giving the

Did you try changing the microfilters? For proper compliant ones?

ian

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:22:42 +0100, "Graham" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Does your father-in law have an intruder alarm that uses Redcare monitoring?

I'm pretty certain he doesn't (he lives in a small village in
Cornwall: not exactly a hotbed of crime!), but will check with him.
Thanks for the suggestion.
--
Clive Backham

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is just a free one and doesn't get checked very often. If you want to email
me, my real address can be found at: www [dot] delback [dot] co [dot] uk