On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Seriously Ubuntu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Wesley Parish <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Telecom has a problem with my landline. >> >> To wit: whenever it rains or the temperature drops precipately, it cuts >> out >> the connection from me to them. Last Wednesday, for example, when I >> arrived >> home from town and picked up the receiver, I got no dial tone. >> >> However, when I ring 125 directly, it connects immediately and dial-tone >> is >> there. >> >> And when I get around to contacting them - during the day, usually when >> it's >> dry - they cannot reproduce the problem. >> >> A friend in town suggests that it's either the line itself open like a >> sieve, >> or the local junction box is leaking. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas why Telecom cannot reproduce the problem - >> apart >> from careful maintenance of their own lines and non-maintenance of >> everybody >> else's? I'm getting sick of having the weather provide me with the >> switchboard-in-the-sky to /dev/null/. >> >> Wesley Parish >> -- > > Yep, had that problem a few times, usually about every 18 months. > > Will probably be the phone line wall socket box. You might find that it > will be very damp inside and verdigris and some crystaline stuff has coated > all the bare brass bits and contacts. The verdigris will have worked itself > into the screw threads and joints thereby stopping contact. > > The dampness is caused by cool air coming up through the wall cavity and > condensing on the wire coatings and the resultant water migrates along the > wires and into the socket box.where electolisis does it's thing. > > Fixed my problem by reinstalling the socket box a few inches away from the > wire hole. Now no moisture enters the box. >
had a similar problem to wes. problem was further down the street to do with a tree in the wires or something. bitch is you can't call them when its faulty...
