I have had some broadband issues in the past 4/5 months, where the connection was dropping and I wasn't getting great speeds and after a few visits from Openreach engineers, they did say they'd found a problem in the street cabling and fixed it. My speeds/connection stability did improve, but I have also been aware that possibly during the same time period and after the Openreach fix, that I have had some noise/interference on the line when making phone calls.
I've done some testing today with an old analogue phone connected at various points and using the 17070 BT quiet line test, as well as normal calls.
What I have found is that the analogue phone connected to the 'test socket', i.e. front plate off to reveal the back socket in the BT box, the line is nice and quiet and no problems.
If I then connect the front plate on, which has the inbuilt filter and test there with the analogue phone, then I hear the noise, but interestingly without the modem connected the line seems clear again. I can even hear the noise introduce itself part way through a call if I plug the modem in, so to me this sounds like the filter isn't working properly in the BT Openreach box and needs the front part replacing ?
Has anyone else had this and does this sound probable? And does it require an Openreach visit, which I guess it does.
Thanks for any help or confirmation or other things I can try!
