75ZT CommunityA social community of enthusiasts, owners, appreciators and collectors. With expert knowledge of all things from MG to Rover and beyond.2013-02-19T22:02:15+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/feed.php?f=2&t=6783&mode2013-02-19T22:02:15+00:002013-02-19T22:02:15+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=6783&p=63827#p63827 After fixing that he was not happy with the line quality, crackly he said, so he apparently connected us via a different pair of wires from that junction box to our nearest telegraph pole.
Great to have the phone working again but I can't say that I've noticed any improvement otherwise for the work that was done, my broadband speed is still the same and tends to be rated at up to 3mb on most tests - usually nowhere near that in reality though.
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Our phone line is still dead. I complained to ofcom as I thought that it was the regulator but it would seem not, it advised that it can't get involved in individual cases but it may use my report for monitoring purposes. I guess the banks must have had the same sort of stooges presiding over their activities, lol.
When confronted with obstruction and cunning stunts I've found that a bit of circumvention can sometimes pay dividends, with that in mind I dug out a couple of old mobiles and I managed to retrieve an old mobile number from one of them. The number hasn't been used for years so it will have been confiscated and possibly reallocated but it opened the door to Talktalk's tech support for me when I used it to submit my fault report. Yippee!
At long last they are now looking at the problem and the last time I checked they had disabled my broadband speed checker because, guess what? They have found a fault on the line...well I never.
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All of the stories I've heard about it have finally caught up with me, ok when things are working but when they are not and you need support you may as well talk to a wall.
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Our phones are of the plug and socket type and all of them are affected, plugging one directly into the test socket at the master box had no effect. But to my surprise I found that my Talktalk broadband service which uses the same BT land line as our phones is working ok.
I submitted an online report to Talktalk (our phone and broadband provider) and its response was to link me to its official report process...but guess what that process requires before it will allow you to submit it? Yeah, a working phone number to enable updates to be sent. You couldn't make it up, lol.
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