Struggling with BT and Openreach !
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Struggling with BT and Openreach !
18-04-2014 10:20 AM
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I've been with Force9 then Plusnet for many, many years. Must be 10+ I think. Always been very happy, still am!
I upgraded to PlusnetFibre in early 2010 as soon as I could, and it was amazing. I upgraded again to the 76mb faster service when it became available, and was happily getting over 70megs downloads consistently.
Recently, my phone line developed a fault. I'm still with BT for it. I've had 3 engineer visits so far, and I'm still not sure if its right or not (it gets worse in bad weather, but the weather's been OK this week!). The line was crackly and the internet was dropping. As of yesterday, BT say its fixed and OK.
Now I'm down at 14 megs down and 4 up (instead of 70+ and 40).
Its been an incredibly frustrating, lengthy process to try to get this resolved. Plusnet, understandably, can't do anything if my phone line has an obvious fault. The BT engineer yesterday told me to contact Plusnet. My biggest frustration, I think, is the competence of the Openreach engineers, and how long they take to come out. Plus they say that some of them are "phone people" and some are "broadband people" - surely in the fibre-optic world of 2014, they should all be knowledgable in both...
Question - If I had my phone line account with Plusnet rather than BT, would this all be easier to get to the bottom of?
I live in a 120 year old flat in Glasgow, where the wiring leaves my flat to a junction box on the back wall of the building, then goes across to a telegraph pole, before going underground to head to the nearby street cabinet.
Any advice or thoughts appreciated.
Re: Struggling with BT and Openreach !
18-04-2014 10:45 AM
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Quote from: roblightbody Question - If I had my phone line account with Plusnet rather than BT, would this all be easier to get to the bottom of?
From personal experience - Yes - as that was the main reason I moved my phone to Plusnet many years ago
Re: Struggling with BT and Openreach !
18-04-2014 12:06 PM
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In another browser tab, login into the Plusnet user portal BEFORE clicking the fault & ticket links
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Re: Struggling with BT and Openreach !
18-04-2014 2:54 PM
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Re: Struggling with BT and Openreach !
23-04-2014 7:03 PM
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23-04-2014 7:10 PM
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Now that your voice line has been sorted, you should find that your BB speed (profile) will creep up over the coming days, Unlike ADLS, PN cannot remotely reset the profile on fibre, it needs a BTOR engineer visit.
I understand your expectations on the cross skilling, but one might argue that would be like expecting all GP's to be capable of doing brain surgeries and all brain surgeons to be expected to run GP clinics.
Glasgow - love that city - visiting it tomorrow for a day out!
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Re: Struggling with BT and Openreach !
23-04-2014 7:16 PM
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Continuing to monitor it, and still think I may have a phone fault, but I need some bad weather to find out for sure !!
Re: Struggling with BT and Openreach !
23-04-2014 8:36 PM
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Internet has dropped 3 times tonight already, phone is crackling again.
Its raining....
Sigh.
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23-04-2014 8:53 PM
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Rain + noise = POTS issue, I'm afraid that it is back to your phone provider again! Sorry!
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Re: Struggling with BT and Openreach !
23-04-2014 8:55 PM
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Quote from: Townman Rob,
Rain + noise = POTS issue, I'm afraid that it is back to your phone provider again! Sorry!
I know. They're utterly, utterly, utterly, utterly useless.
Re: Struggling with BT and Openreach !
23-04-2014 9:17 PM
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23-04-2014 10:11 PM
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Quote from: buntrob Hi weegie here too, my old tenement flat had big issues with noisy linewhen it rained. Openreach ended up rewriting from the pole to the house to sort it hope you get sorted soon!
I'm sure that's what it is, but they just keep going on and on and on about my fecking test socket and unplugging my equipment, even though "engineers" have been in my Flat twice over the past few weeks, and say everything's fine.
It worked perfectly for years from when I first got FTTC until the 28th of March, and has been terrible ever since.
My phone line joins PlusNet on the 7th of May... does that mean I can stop talking to the truly awful Indian call centre that BT uses?!?!
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23-04-2014 10:20 PM
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23-04-2014 10:59 PM
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Yes, you'll never have to speak with India again.
The problem with intermittent wet weather faults is that they are hard to find. Sometimes putting a test or ring voltage on the line can "fix" them for a short time. Indeed, try ringing your own phone, let it keep ringing and then see if the bb works better!
Yes, I know its a mad idea!
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Re: Struggling with BT and Openreach !
26-04-2014 12:11 PM
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BT says they've fixed the fault - again - and have closed the latest call (I don't even know what they did, they never called me).
The internet is slow and failing this morning.
With the call closed by BT, and the phone not currently crackling, I have no option but to log a new fault with PlusNet, which I've just done.
Caught between a rock and a hard place, and its been very painful indeed.
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