We lose broadband every time it starts raining
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We lose broadband every time it starts raining
29-05-2018 11:45 AM
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Every time it starts raining we lose our broadband connection for a few minutes. Very annoying. We have fibre-to-cabinet with fairly fast speeds (varies between 45 & 75Mb) but the last bit of our connection is via a wire from a telephone pole in next door's garden. Might the cause be a slightly dodgy connection or a hole in the insulation?
Re: We lose broadband every time it starts raining
29-05-2018 12:18 PM
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It could be all sorts of places where the wet is getting in. You need to jump through the hoops and report a problem.
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Re: We lose broadband every time it starts raining
29-05-2018 12:25 PM
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I assume you have a landline, when it rains and your broadband is playing up check whether you have any noise on the line.
You can call a number of course, but the other option is to dial 17070 option 2 quiet line test. The whole point in that is you should hear nothing.
I've had a landline fault recently and did that and called BT Wholesale out who fixed it.
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29-05-2018 4:18 PM
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Re: We lose broadband every time it starts raining
09-06-2018 11:56 PM
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Thanks. We were away for a week, & then since we got back we haven't had any rain! When it next rains I'll check the line as suggested.
Re: We lose broadband every time it starts raining
10-06-2018 7:55 AM
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A user should contact their CP (for voice) or ISP (for broadband) supplier to report a problem. They in turn will contact BT Openreach or BT Wholesale respectively. If BT Wholesale determines there’s a line problem, they will pass the issue to BT Openreach. BT Wholesale NEVER attend faults.
Broadband being impacted as you describe will in the first instance be considered a voice (POTS) issue to be dealt with by the phone service provider - which for some users might not be PlusNET.
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Re: We lose broadband every time it starts raining
19-09-2018 12:16 PM
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Hi Adam
At last - sorry for the long delay in coming back to you, but what with the drought and then holidays, this is the first time it's started to rain when we were in and connected to our broadband. As soon as the rain started, we lost our broadband connection - our Plusnet hub started flashing orange. This was at about 11.50 am today. As suggested, I tried the phone line and that still had a dial tone and was working. I then tried the quiet line test (the result was silence) but by then our broadband had reconnected. I reckon we lost connection for between 2 and 5 minutes.
There is clearly some sort of fault. I am a PlusNet customer - how can I get PlusNet to pursue this with OpenReach (or whoever?) If you can need my address & PlusNet account number please send me a link so I can send that to you as a private message.
Thanks
Re: We lose broadband every time it starts raining
20-09-2018 10:24 AM
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Hi @exBT
Nothing has come up on testing again - which I sort of expected due to the apparent nature of your issue.
I'm a little stumped to be honest. There is (in my opinion) most likely some form of water invasion occurring somewhere along your line which is causing this to happen - but I am unsure of how we could confirm this, save sending an engineer to check for degradation / water damage etc.
The thing is, if the engineer finds nothing then there is a change that a charge would be levied against the account - and i do not want that to happen to you.
Let me talk to a few people today and gauge their opinions.
One of us will update this thread later on.
Thanks
MoR
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