Anyway, our neighbours modem router failed in that no wifi connection to his pc. Contacted TalkTalk his supplier who supplied a new one.
I just called round to plug it in and set up the password etc and found that using Think Broadband's speed test, I was getting 0.6 bursting 0.7 Mb/s down and 0.3 up Not good...
He has a single telephone and on dialing a digit to suppress the dial tone a fairly quiet line.
Looked at his wiring and OMG!
There is a Protector Box & Fuses No1.2/2, with earth wire, a couple of BT80As, the old bakelite junction box GPO No.20/4 where the plaited cable used to be connected and externally a drop wire junction box (an above ground drop wire closure?) There is no split face NTE, just a 2/2A Master socket. All this mounted on the frame of his front door.
Their bungalow was built late 1950s and until a couple of years ago? the overhead came from the pole to the remains of a pair of openwire insulators which were mounted on the chimney stack. Openreach attended one day and removed the drop wire and insulators and fitted a new drop wire (hence the external joint) to a new bracket 22 screwed onto a facia board.
So currently not only very, very slow broadband but the tension on the drop wire is pulling the facia board off the ends of the roof rafters!
It’s a mess.
So what can I advise him to do? He is very late 80s and not technically minded.
It is a pity that when the drop wire was replaced that they did not go the whole distance and fit a NTE, but they didn't.
Sorry for the long post.
Cheers!
Clive
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