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[burakkucat]

I suspect there will be a spider or two "in residence", a liberal excess of spider excrement and the remains of other bugs that the spider(s) did not eat.

As for joining the wires, I would use a pair of gel-crimps. 

For waterproofing, perhaps a smear of grease or even petroleum jelly around the edge of the box, before refitting the blanking plate, will be sufficient? 

[NewtronStar]

On closer inspection this evening, it looks like the BT16 cable is going directly into uPVC door frame and the illicit closure is 240V feeding the cable for the security PIR halogen floodlight, sorry the image I uploaded was misleading   

have upload a new image at a better angle and zoom, ah well i'll just have to cut the hedges 

[burakkucat]

Oh, yes. I see. Things do look rather different with a change of viewpoint!

However the critical eye notices that the service-feed cable and the mains supply to the light are very close and run parallel for a couple of inches . . . 

(Unfortunately NI is out of the trundling range of Walter's wheelbarrow, otherwise I'm sure he would have been willing to make some adjustments.)

[NewtronStar]

(Unfortunately NI is out of the trundling range of Walter's wheelbarrow, otherwise I'm sure he would have been willing to make some adjustments.)

Its not good is it having that mains cable close by, We could do with Walters wheelbarrow in this location, all I can say B*Cat there is a switch in the hallway which turns off/on the electricity to the PIR light outside.

So at least I know why the stats picks up a lot of ES and CRC during winter time as that's the time the switch is on the on position.

The more I go around this house it's looking more unfriendly to-wards broadband signals.

[burakkucat]

So at least I know why the stats picks up a lot of ES and CRC during winter time as that's the time the switch is on the on position.

I would not go as far as stating that as a fact but the possibility is, however, quite strong. 

[NewtronStar]

Have taken a picture of my BT16 and at the moment i'm just getting familiar with it before doing and work on it.

It all seems very dry in there the left hand cable in the picture goes inside the house to BT80 and the right hand side is the incoming drop wire cables.

[burakkucat]

To my eye, it looks as if spiders have used it as a residence. 

It seems that both pairs (orange & white wires are pair 1; green & black wires are pair 2) of the incoming drop-cable have been connected through to the second cable, which then enters the premises.

[NewtronStar]

Cheers B*CAT i wanted to inspect the BT16 as I am getting errored seconds on the upstream when the phone rings it's the last part of my circuit that i can do anything about before it goes into Openreach land.

Had a gentle fiddle with the wires and nothing comes away does it visually look sound ?

PS I have never used Gel crimps before 

[burakkucat]

Had a gentle fiddle with the wires and nothing comes away does it visually look sound ?

From what was visible everything looked good, to me.

[NewtronStar]

Had a gentle fiddle with the wires and nothing comes away does it visually look sound ?

From what was visible everything looked good, to me.

Would the spider stuff cause any effect and tried to pull that stuff out but it's hard would need can of compressed air which i'm out of.

[NewtronStar]

I see no issue on the BT16 used a pair of pliers and squeezed each gel while DSLstats is running and nothing alarming showed up.

Well that's that part ruled out it's only taken me a year to have a look but once i seen gels in there that reassured me 

[burakkucat]

Yes, agreed. Nothing out of the ordinary can be seen within the enclosure.