Cool cheers

Reply to my own post, the plot thickens!!!

Just heard banging on my wall so went out to investigate and find a BT engineer hanging just below my roof. We live on a hill so have a kind of balcony with a huge drop one side that's where the dp is.

Anyway ask him what's up says he's doing a job for number x I said is it related to a constant low buzz on the line and he confirmed it was that it's a bug problem affecting nearly every line in the village, said people keep reporting it but nothing gets done.

So they seem to think there's something seriously wrong as it's affecting several hundred households, wonder if/when that gets fixed might get a little speed increase?

Seems very strange for so many voice lines to be affected, anyone know what's likely to cause that and what BT will do about it? Know it's moving outside of discussing fibre but as that's what appears to have affected it.....

In reply to a post by Rich44:

Anyway ask him what's up says he's doing a job for number x I said is it related to a constant low buzz on the line and he confirmed it was that it's a bug problem affecting nearly every line in the village, said people keep reporting it but nothing gets done.

Too many bees buzzing around?

Fat fingers and phone don't mix well

It was a rather apt typo though!

Yeah I'd like to claim I did it on purpose but not quick witted enough for that lol

Be interesting to see what happens, the engineer seemed really fed up with it said they're running around trying to patch it up and they need a it escalated up for a special team to come look at as it's affecting so many lines.

I suspect the reason 13 had reported a fault us because the last engineer nicked their good pair and swapped them to my line rather than following any escalation procedures they have, instead a week later a different engineer comes out to fix their line pmsl you couldn't make it up.

Back in the day I was a field engineer covering Dr's surgeries. Got called in as they weren't getting lab results back (before broadband used to come over 33.6k modem at 2am) anyway after much investigation by me discover line dead. Previous day BT engineer had gone in as switchboard line was dead, he found a "spare pair" and used that, turned out the spare pair was the modem line so he obviously didn't even check for a dial tone lol.

£25/hour to drive from Peterborough to Luton and back Inc an hour on site just to lob it back at the surgery saying you need to call BT byeeeeee