Ain't you got a cell-phone? 2009/5/9 Nick Rout <[email protected]>: > 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... >
-- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
