Gentlefolk,
I'm bored on the train to Lancaster so are you sitting comfortably ? Then I'll begin.
Once upon a time, well last night actually, I was asked to another house to examine a very badly performing ADSL 1 service. Yes such places without ADSl2+ still do exist !
Firstly I spotted at least three lines running into two wall boxes, one without a cover which was lying on the ground. I got the owner to get his ladder out to fix the problem.
Meanwhile I went indoors with the lady of the house to examine a right royal birds nest. We discovered the ADSL master socket mounted upside down so we joked about the broadband being so too. Perhaps to be expected, 17070 QLT sounded like a kettle boiling. With great aplomb I take the front plate off the NTE5 to try again, and yes the ring wire was still connected.
Now for another QLT but SURPRISE SURPRISE the line was completely dead !!!
Walter feels a panic attack coming on, but wait Mr Mannering, remember the man on the ladder outside
Asking him to come down I then discover all sorts of "clever" jumpers, but the 6 crimps all looked intact.
Smartly walking back inside whilst thinking what the h*** do I try now?
BRILLIANT INSPIRATION STRIKESI plug the test phone into the freely dangling lower part of the faceplate.
EUREKA There followed an animated discussion as to how the BT engineer could have left that wiring?
B S can be assured that I stated quite categorically that even a student engineer couldn't possibly have done so. Moonlighting then became the next excuse !
Here endeth ".........
Kind regards,
Walter