--=======AVGMAIL-40E233E5======= Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to those who reported (helpfully) that their BT lines were fine. Just thought I'd let you know: Monday 21 - BT engineer booked to attend 8-1 but was unable to do so. Re-booked appointment for Wed 23rd. Wed 23 - BT engineer attended promptly at 8am. Reason for missed appointment on Monday? Call out to Swaffham Prior Fen in deep snow was tricky - hard to find cables and boxes in the snow and despite his caution, his van slithered off the road. Helpful passing Environment Agency van towed him back on to the road to continue his journey - but he was late, so could not make it to my appointment. So what was the BT line problem? Yes - it was a local fault. It was in my house. A faulty internal extension was causing the noisy line. Now renewed with fresh cable. Incidentally - the so-called "ancient underground cable that runs all the way to the Waterbeach exchange" is obviously doing a pretty god job as my landline is as clear as a bell and Broadband is fine now. Anna ................................ No problems at the Rectory. No cable either ;-) David. 2009/12/20 ROB FARRINGTON <rob.farrington at btopenworld.com> > No problem here. Must be a local fault! Milton has worked well to > Waterbeach exchange for me over the 'ancient underground cables' for 45 > years. (including recent years on Broadband). Beware - you may regret it > if > you change to Virgin!! > > > > --- On Sat, 19/12/09, Tim Steele <tjfs at tjfs.com> wrote: > > > From: Tim Steele <tjfs at tjfs.com> > Subject: Re: [milton-chat] Problems with BT landline? > To: "Milton Chat" <milton-chat at the-hug.net> > Date: Saturday, 19 December, 2009, 19:16 > > > Probably got some water in their ancient underground cable that runs > all the way to Waterbeach exchange. > > Time to get a cable phone? > > 2009/12/19 Clarke Brunt <clarke.brunt at viridis.net>: > > Hello > > > > I'm posting this for Anna Bradnam (High St., near the shops). She > > wonders > if > > anyone else is having problems with their BT landline? Since at least > > yesterday (Friday) it's been very crackly, and the broadband only works > > intermittently (hence me posting this message instead). She's tried to > > report it to BT (yesterday), but they didn't get back to her, and > obviously > > reporting is difficult with the phone in its present state. > > > > Clarke Brunt > > -- > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > -- > > > > -- Rev David Chamberlin Rector of Milton, Diocese of Ely Anna Bradnam Tel:01223 862364 anna.bradnam at btinternet.com [quoted text snipped - see the-hug.org/quoting.html] --=======AVGMAIL-40E233E5======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline