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

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