Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solved!
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Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
04-07-2018 9:20 PM
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I've just heard back from our suppliers. In addition to the latest response below...
We would need this to be checked with open reach and at this point of time they are closed for the day we will check with them during the working hours and keep you updated.
...they didn't send us the full last response from the DSO. Here's the rest of it:
I know that this is a long duration fault but I hope you can appreciate the problems which are encountered when dealing with third party interference on lines.
On Wednesday, they're visiting again to try to route the drop wire another way to further prove the source. We would like the joint meet to take place then, however this is in no way a guarantee and we need to see if this is possible.
I'll be in touch with you on Thursday as I review the work on Wednesday and get the latest for you.
It looks like this is related to the work you're aware of which happened today.
We're to expect a further update tomorrow once our suppliers have chased this up with Openreach.
Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
05-07-2018 3:21 PM
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This morning our suppliers "sent an email to the DSO team to send out engineer at the earliest to fix the issue. Once I will receive any update, I will keep you posted."
I'll update you when I know more.
Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
06-07-2018 2:27 PM
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This update is a long one...
DSO team informed that "The engineers did reconnect the dropwire yesterday. This was nothing to do with engineer work though and had been caused by a third party. It's thought that a digger or tractor had inadvertently pulled the wire down before the engineers attended.
Unfortunately, the Power company did not attend, and it's become apparent that there may be some issues getting them to cooperate with us for the fault which has been proved to their equipment. The coach yesterday spent time speaking with the customer, and we have repeatedly attempted to contact the power company yesterday and today, so far without success.
The plan now is to continue to try to reach them to work together on this, but also it's been decided that if we have no success, on Monday the customer will be given contact details for the power company contact, and will try themselves, also raising an incident with them as a customer, which will then need to be dealt with.
The customer is happy to assist here if necessary, although we are trying to avoid reaching this point.
I'm speaking with the coach on Monday and will update you before 16:30.
Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
06-07-2018 8:51 PM
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Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
07-07-2018 11:48 AM
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Some energy suppliers offer a telephone and BB service so the customer could always pretend that he was interested in switching to them but needs to make sure he will be getting good BB speed before making a decision.
Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
07-07-2018 1:42 PM
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I assumed it would be the local electricity distribution network rather than whoever you pay your electricity bill to.
Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
08-07-2018 5:42 PM
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When we have a problem with our supply, the vans that attend are branded with our supplier's logo, likewise when new cabling was laid under the pavements a couple of years ago.
Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
17-07-2018 11:03 PM
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I'm going to regret asking this, but can you instruct the removal of the banding from the line?
This is to assist BTOR in their troubleshooting. They believe they have a joint meet organised tomorrow at the problem pole pig.
Cheers,
Allan.
Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
18-07-2018 8:30 AM
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Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
18-07-2018 12:01 PM
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It was rather atrocious when it was switched, but I've increased the SNRM offset to +5 (highest it will go locally) and it seems stable.
Hopefully BTOR will be here soon.
Thanks again for your help!
Cheers,
Allan.
Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
18-07-2018 12:39 PM
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Hi Allan,
I'm glad to hear that it's looking a bit more stable now you've increased the SNRM.
Hopefully the planned joint meet will take place today - we should receive an update on this by tomorrow.
Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
18-07-2018 10:22 PM
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Well, that's interesting. The BTOR van was apparently down at the bottom of the track today. The majority of the day, I left the SNR margin offset to +5 - but tonight I tried setting it back slowly to 0. Still very few errors. Also rather interesting - the fencer noise on the line has disappeared. This suggests strongly to me that we've been [-Censored-]ing around for 2 weeks trying to get SEN to admit to a fault which was not theirs.
Even after I explicitly asked "have you asked for the fencer at the bottom of the track to be turned off". I suspect there was miscommunication between the BTOR engineers (one asked ME to turn a fencer off, which is a different one to the one they quite closely tracked the source to)
Argh. Well, I'm sure we will have an update tomorrow. Hopefully it's good news and it was in-fact SEN at fault.
Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
19-07-2018 6:35 AM
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Nope. CRC errors peaked around midnight and DLM brought the line back down to 1.1Mbits/s. Increasing the SNRM offset, since I'm away from home (and now hope) again.
Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
19-07-2018 11:19 AM
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Re: Most engineers ever involved? DSL speed issues progressed to line disconnection - Still not solv
20-07-2018 11:02 AM
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I thought DLM didn't do this - but would it be possible to confirm that a banding has once again been applied to the line?
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