@Mardler wrote:
ejs, with respect, you really don't understand anything.
I'm an ex IT bod with experience and deep knowledge of these systems from the very first packet switching comms. I don't need you or anyone else to tell me your misguided opinion, I want the problem of an external line sorted.
I was in a very remote location an hour ago. The wifi d/l speed was 42mbps, upload was nearly 12 - we can't get 13 d/l but used to get 19. Obviously, I know the higher speed was FTTC but the cabinet is nearly three miles from my then location.
I'm 0.7km from the exchange. No neighbour has a problem like ours. We are on a spur off the main line. Two BT engineers say there's an underground copper line fault. BT refuse to investigate.
There are far too many people here who think they know everything. Unfortunately, they don't but I do (nearly!) and what I am experiencing on this line is basic: a cabling fault.
What I need is technological knowledge and the nous for dealing with a state monopoly.
Given what you say above, Mardler, and if PN won't push BT/Openreach or whoever is responsible for fixing an identified underground cable fault, could you not involve you local MP? I would have said councillor , but in my experience that wouldn't be very effective.
John
