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FTTC dropping: four Openreach engineers and no closer to resolving the issue

Well the area manager seems to think that all the pairs are good and that the physical line us fine, which makes no sense because if that was the case then this wouldn't still be happening :crap:
 
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Random thought:

When a line is changed from ADSL to VDSL what happens to the other end of the wires at the exchange?

Presumably they're pulled out of the DSLAM at the exchange. What then?

Is it possible there's an intermittent short-circuit at that end of the line and nobody has thought to look there?

Mind you I suppose anything is possible ;)
 
This is BT we are talking about, obviously the PFY is not keeping all the strings wet.
 
The conclusion to that thread:

The engineer also found that was 5V on the line that shouldn't have been there, which is apparently consistent with damp. They have moved my parents onto a different line from the cab and magically like that no further dropouts.

I guess - in your case, no more pairs available to try, all spares condemned as unusable/defective. And hence the laying of the new D-side bundle.

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/te...l-and-now-fibre-disconnects.html?fpart=2&vc=1
 
I doubt there will be much link between connections if I'm honest.
The ports in the cabinet are fine. Indeed I've been on two or three different ones and the issue occurs.
I believe it to be REIN somewhere along the line between us and the cabinet which Openreach are investigating.
 
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They're here almost every week in our lane. Usually two vans and sometimes a cherry-picker thing to get up to the top of the pole.

Swapping the knackered old pairs around would appear not to have been successful, so it looks like they have cut about 500m from the line length by routing the cables under the road at the entrance to the lane rather than have them go down to Manderley and back up the other side if that was the original route. Doing this in stages connecting the various bits back together perhaps.

I'd like to think they ran fibre in preparation for FTTP but in all likelihood it's probably just more copper. Such a wasted opportunity and a very expensive (8 visits so far with multiple engineers?) way of not providing superfast broadband. Though FTTP would require fibre to be dragged from the connection point at the cabinet to the properties, some of that being underground.

Though I wonder why they're doing this work at all rather than just telling the ISP "that's all the line is capable of". Suggests perhaps a more serious failure e.g. cable fractures or breaks leading to problems with calls.
 
Well BT never did resolve my issues officially but the drops have stopped. It's been stable for a couple of months now.

The last couple of days my speed has increased by 10Mb: I'm now syncing at just over 60Mbps down with an SNRM of 7.8dB so I probably could have even more.

G.INP isn't causing this as it was previously switched on, interleaving is the same. Very odd.
 
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