Hi all, basicly there is a note on my DP and I wondered if anyone could shed any light on it?
Recently noticed the attainable rate had dropped ~4Mb, no to worry fortunatly the speed is still decent (sorry to those of you who aren't in that situation
) then two days ago I pick up the phone to hear pop, crackle and when ending the call I could hear one side of another conversation. Dialed quiet line test and could hear a lady speaking in a foreign language. Eye eye there's a fault here. Look at stats another ~2Mb gone, thought I'd leave it for now and see if it clears, not too bothered about the speed but hearing other conversations and possibly others hearing mine isn't ideal.
That evening I put the dryer on, and the lights dim and flicker in time with the drum changing direction. It did this a couple of times, hmm.
Next day I spot something attatched to the DP which is a metal post sticking out the ground, so I wonder over and there is a note gaffer taped to the front of it. Attatched is a pictue of the note (I've removed the name). Upon checking the modem log sync was lost for 10 mins and then another 2 mins 25mins later. Caused I presume by the engineer who left the note.
These events could well be unrelated and just coincidence. "Urgent Grounding Required" sounds serious and electrical related, but I guess not dangerous because the DP hasn't been fenced off.
What's involved in fixing this? Replacing the Ali d side with copper and putting in chambers for the DPs? hehe. Fat chance I know.
Serious though we have had moisture related faults in this very DP, one was a complete loss of sync in the pre vdsl days, the engineer wrapped it in gaffer tape which was removed at some point afterwards. Earlyer this year I mentioned it had been removed to another engineer who was round fixing a crossed line fault and then a few months later the DP changed from silver to black and looks slimmer aswell, as if a snugger fitting cover was fitted, maybe to try and keep the moisture out I don't know.
Anyway, if anyone knows what this note is about I'd be very interested to know.