cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Broadband and phone fault

FIXED
dgilbert2
Aspiring Pro
Posts: 141
Thanks: 30
Fixes: 2
Registered: ‎17-11-2017

Broadband and phone fault

For the last couple of days our phone line has started to crackle and our normally stable fibre broadband is now regularly disconnecting with high error rates, as you might expect. I have checked from the Test Socket but this makes no difference.

 

I have raised fault ticket #228165855 and it would be great if one of the PN forum team can take a look at this for me please so we can quickly get things sorted out.

16 REPLIES 16
jab1
Legend
Posts: 18,655
Thanks: 6,073
Fixes: 281
Registered: ‎24-02-2012

Re: Broadband and phone fault

@dgilbert2 Your fault will get sorted in rotation. Did you raise the fault via the 'auto-bot' link, or some other method?

John
dgilbert2
Aspiring Pro
Posts: 141
Thanks: 30
Fixes: 2
Registered: ‎17-11-2017

Re: Broadband and phone fault

@jab1 , thanks for your reply. Fault raised by this link faults.plus.net 

jab1
Legend
Posts: 18,655
Thanks: 6,073
Fixes: 281
Registered: ‎24-02-2012

Re: Broadband and phone fault

OK. Not the quickest route  these days.

John
dgilbert2
Aspiring Pro
Posts: 141
Thanks: 30
Fixes: 2
Registered: ‎17-11-2017

Re: Broadband and phone fault

@jab1 , what is a quicker route then please?

jab1
Legend
Posts: 18,655
Thanks: 6,073
Fixes: 281
Registered: ‎24-02-2012

Re: Broadband and phone fault

If you had raised a PHONE fault - for that is what it is - via https://www.plus.net/help/report-a-problem/phone/ it would have been actioned much quicker, but as you already have a ticket open, I would advise against going down that route - it may cause confusion.

 

John
dgilbert2
Aspiring Pro
Posts: 141
Thanks: 30
Fixes: 2
Registered: ‎17-11-2017

Re: Broadband and phone fault

Thanks, will allow the ticket and this post to assist for now, has always worked in the past 😉.

 

I've attached my broadband performance over the last 24hrs below for reference, the prior day was similar. In 48hrs there have been 13 disconnects, increasing.

es.png

snrm.png

stats.PNG

jab1
Legend
Posts: 18,655
Thanks: 6,073
Fixes: 281
Registered: ‎24-02-2012

Re: Broadband and phone fault

Looking at that SNR plot, it could be either a phone line or broadband issue - is your phone line clear - dial 17070 and select option 2 - there should be silence apart from the regular 'Quiet Line Test' message?

John
dgilbert2
Aspiring Pro
Posts: 141
Thanks: 30
Fixes: 2
Registered: ‎17-11-2017

Re: Broadband and phone fault

Yes, the phone line crackles too, so to me points towards a copper cable fault affecting both voice and broadband. We had something similar a couple of years ago which Openreach fixed, turned out to be an underground cable issue back then. As mentioned earlier, I'm now using the "test socket" to rule out issues on myside.

dgilbert2
Aspiring Pro
Posts: 141
Thanks: 30
Fixes: 2
Registered: ‎17-11-2017

Re: Broadband and phone fault

Another bad period, the line fault seems pretty regular now as the SNR plot indicates, even though I'm now back on a 6dB profile (was 3dB), no surprise there though ☹️. Disconnect count gone up to 20. Hoping this can get sorted out soon as streaming is now unreliable. @Gandalf , last time we "spoke" you said to come back to you if any further problems, what are you thoughts on this please?

snrm (1).png

Gandalf
Community Gaffer
Community Gaffer
Posts: 26,625
Thanks: 10,189
Fixes: 1,606
Registered: ‎21-04-2017

Re: Broadband and phone fault

Hi @dgilbert2,

I'm sorry to see you're having issues with your service again. 

If your phone line's crackling then we'd ought to get that looked at first as it's likely your broadband will settle down once it's fixed. I've tested your line and the tests aren't showing the cause for the noise, so we'd need to arrange an engineer visit to investigate further. Are you home any days from Tuesday next week? 

From 31st October 2022, I no longer have a regular presence here as I’ve moved on to a new role.
Anoush Mortazavi
Plusnet
dgilbert2
Aspiring Pro
Posts: 141
Thanks: 30
Fixes: 2
Registered: ‎17-11-2017

Re: Broadband and phone fault

Thanks for looking at this for me @Gandalf .

 

Yes, I'm available anytime Tuesday.

Gandalf
Community Gaffer
Community Gaffer
Posts: 26,625
Thanks: 10,189
Fixes: 1,606
Registered: ‎21-04-2017

Re: Broadband and phone fault

Fix

Awesome. I've arranged the engineer visit for Tuesday 11th October between 8am and 1pm.

Let me know how it goes. 

From 31st October 2022, I no longer have a regular presence here as I’ve moved on to a new role.
Anoush Mortazavi
Plusnet
dgilbert2
Aspiring Pro
Posts: 141
Thanks: 30
Fixes: 2
Registered: ‎17-11-2017

Re: Broadband and phone fault

Perfect, thank you. Will post back on Tuesday with how the engineer gets on.

Gandalf
Community Gaffer
Community Gaffer
Posts: 26,625
Thanks: 10,189
Fixes: 1,606
Registered: ‎21-04-2017

Re: Broadband and phone fault

No problem and sounds good 

From 31st October 2022, I no longer have a regular presence here as I’ve moved on to a new role.
Anoush Mortazavi
Plusnet