2009/5/11 Ross Drummond wrote:
> Typically your Telecom cable pair travels down your street and is
> terminated at the end of the street. If for example you live half way down
> the street your cable pair is tapped at the junction box on the street
> outside but not terminated.
>
> This means that if the fault is downstream of your tap, terminating the
> cable pair at your tap will isolate you from the fault.
>
> Telecom do not usually do this as it means extra work if they need to use
> the cable pair downstream in the future.

What Ross refers to is no longer the current practice as it slows down
ADSL when there are multiples on the line.

If you have an underground RLG system (the grey phallic pillars) then
you won't have the pair continuing past your house.

If you have an old overhead system, with an undergound cable going up
a pole every few houses, then cutting away the pair as it heads
downstream involves digging up a joint, probably in lead casing with
paper insulated conductors.

Fat chance of that happening. You're not worth it to them.

With any luck though, you will find a moisture effected jack somewhere
in you house and replacing this will fix things.

Yuri

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