On 14/05/2020 04:40, Christopher Hunter via GLLUG wrote:
That's Virgin "engineers"!
That's virgin' on the ridiculous...
MeJ
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On 13/05/2020 13:23, Marco van Beek via GLLUG wrote:
On 13/05/2020 13:20, John Winters via GLLUG wrote:
P.S. I've found in the past that the best way to get one of the
slot-in plates is to ply a friendly BT technician with tea and
chocolate digestives (plain chocolate obviously).
WARNING: D
On 13/05/2020 17:30, Jan van Bergen via GLLUG wrote:
On 2020-05-13 17:20, James Courtier-Dutton via GLLUG wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 16:14, Marco van Beek via GLLUG
wrote:
> ...MUST NOT (rfc2119)
>
>
I bet you know what BSI 0 is as well :-)
I once worked on a bid where the cu
On Wednesday, 13 May 2020 13:21:50 BST Marco van Beek via GLLUG wrote:
> With so few people having / using POTS telephones these days, it is
> really hard to explain to people that the quality of the line affected
> the quality of the data. Most of the time when I turn up to fault-find a
> xDSL lin
On 2020-05-13 17:20, James Courtier-Dutton via GLLUG wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 16:14, Marco van Beek via GLLUG
wrote:
> ...MUST NOT (rfc2119)
>
>
I bet you know what BSI 0 is as well :-)
I once worked on a bid where the customer said we had to be 100%
compliant to all the requi
On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 16:14, Marco van Beek via GLLUG
wrote:
>
>
>
> > ...MUST NOT (rfc2119)
> >
> >
> I bet you know what BSI 0 is as well :-)
>
I once worked on a bid where the customer said we had to be 100%
compliant to all the requirements.
It was valued at about £10Million.
So, I was
...MUST NOT (rfc2119)
I bet you know what BSI 0 is as well :-)
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On 13/05/2020 13:21, Marco van Beek via GLLUG wrote:
With so few people having / using POTS telephones these days, it is
really hard to explain to people that the quality of the line affected
the quality of the data.
Among my older clients they've always understood it when analogised to a
do
On Wednesday, 13 May 2020 13:21:50 BST Marco van Beek via GLLUG wrote:
> With so few people having / using POTS telephones these days, it is
> really hard to explain to people that the quality of the line affected
> the quality of the data. Most of the time when I turn up to fault-find a
> xDSL lin
On 13/05/2020 13:20, John Winters via GLLUG wrote:
P.S. I've found in the past that the best way to get one of the
slot-in plates is to ply a friendly BT technician with tea and
chocolate digestives (plain chocolate obviously).
WARNING: Do not feed them after midnight. They turn into Virgin
With so few people having / using POTS telephones these days, it is
really hard to explain to people that the quality of the line affected
the quality of the data. Most of the time when I turn up to fault-find a
xDSL line, I start by plugging a £10 handset into the line, and then
have to tell t
On 13/05/2020 12:29, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote:
[snip]
Undo the two screws holding the lower panel and remove it. You may need to
transfer any telephone wiring originally connected direct to the back to the
replacement panel, there should be similar IDC connection points on the new
one, then fix
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:01:42AM +0100, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote:
> Hello Frank,
> You could find that you get an improvement by using a replacement lower front
> panel VDSL filter for the incoming BT NTE5 termination box which will block
> the
> data from entering your internal telephone wi
On Wednesday, 13 May 2020 11:45:39 BST Henrik Morsing via GLLUG wrote:
> On 13-May-20 11:01 AM, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote:
> > Hello Frank,
> > You could find that you get an improvement by using a replacement lower
> > front panel VDSL filter for the incoming BT NTE5 termination box which
> > wil
On 13/05/2020 11:45, Henrik Morsing via GLLUG wrote:
[snip]
Any chance of a pretty ASCII diagram of that? I'm sure I follow your
replacement route and wiring.
Not sure about ASCII art, but here are some photos of a slightly old one.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/BqgyZtjSg79gC2DH9
Modern ones have
On 13-May-20 11:01 AM, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote:
Hello Frank,
You could find that you get an improvement by using a replacement lower front
panel VDSL filter for the incoming BT NTE5 termination box which will block the
data from entering your internal telephone wiring. It will bypass the line
On 13/05/2020 11:01, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote:
Hello Frank,
You could find that you get an improvement by using a replacement lower front
panel VDSL filter for the incoming BT NTE5 termination box which will block the
data from entering your internal telephone wiring. It will bypass the line
fi
I love it when people remind us that at the end of the day, all data is
analogue once it hits a copper wire!
Kudos to a proper bit of communications engineering, Chris :-)
On 13/05/2020 11:01, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote:
Hello Frank,
You could find that you get an improvement by using a replac
Hello Frank,
You could find that you get an improvement by using a replacement lower front
panel VDSL filter for the incoming BT NTE5 termination box which will block the
data from entering your internal telephone wiring. It will bypass the line
filter in the standard box, which destroys the bal
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