OK - its not marketeers orders, it engineers feathering their Xmas box !
It may be ne'er do wells "Bodging" or vandalising the box at one o'clock in the morning - a common sight round here, which I've reported a few times, roadside boxes with the doors open, letting in the weather - I'm sure the engineers don't leave 'em like that !
I find it hard to believe its a naturally faulted unstable line. As said 17070 "Quiet line" had nothing to report.
I've never had any trouble with the line over the last 12 years of broadband VDSL and the preceding 6 years of ADSL at the address I'm at now.
My house is located 200 metres from the roadside box. The roadside box is 500 metres from the exchange. The service provided is FTTC. The cabling runs through a dry and well-drained area.
The signalling and hardware used today is way better than 12 years ago when I first transitioned to BT Broadband services.
Even in the alleged "Degraded" state, I'm still consistently getting half contracted throughput for this line. i.e. 26Mbps down, 4Mbps up. Would a "Faulted line" be that consistent, even with DLM overseeing matters ?
The only thing exogeneous to BT/openreach that's different may be the recent increase in demand for telecoms lines in my road caused by the several recent property re-developments, the latest of which, a bungalow re-developed into half a dozen flats may be the reason- this might have caused the link, inside the telephone roadside box, connecting my line to the adjacent roadside fibre box to have been disturbed, moved or shared.
Also, I've noticed that there's a new type of RFI locally, which keeps taking the audio signal out on the digital TV. 5 G ?
Before reporting it, again, (Still heard nothing from BT since Monday) I'll re-run the on-line tests.
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