In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

"All BT junction boxes are injected with a resin at a customer's property, so water doesn't get in"

Oh dear, oh dear. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

LOL, good idea tho'

In reply to a post by v105:

I have never read so much rubbish in my life! The only way snow if affecting performance is either it is blocking a microwave link - or everyone is stuck at home using the Internet. You do realise that cables are held before leaving slack and then terminating them?
A wire isn't joined on to put a joint under extreme tension!

Ah so snow is not ice, which thaws and turns to water and seeks out every vulnerable hole in the network. Snow & ice that collects on overhead cables and causing them to stretch and damages the cables.

I don�t think you realise lower temperatures cause the wire in connections in the IDCs to contract and of itself can cause noise and crackle.

In reply to a post by v105:

All BT junction boxes are injected with a resin at a customer's property, so water doesn't get in.

Very interesting, unfortunately incorrect and impractical.

In reply to a post by v105:

If you have no knowledge of what is wrong, don't just invent things!
Do everyone a favour. The fault is down to his ISP handling far more traffic than normal, not having the required bandwidth and limiting what users can do. The ISP will never admit this, but we know which companies do it the most.

Unfortunately there is a grain of truth in this. The BB equipment will first attempt to load share by slowing everyone down and finally if it is overwhelmed by the load will drop connections to protect the overall network.

>>Very interesting, unfortunately incorrect and impractical.

They used to use beeswax though.

In reply to a post by RandomJointer:

>>Very interesting, unfortunately incorrect and impractical.

They used to use beeswax though.

lol Now that could make you as old as me lol a very long time ago.