Line dropouts

Hi Everyone,
My first time posting here in quite a while but I hope you can help?
For sometime now I’ve been getting irregular dropouts on my fttc connection.
I’ve purchased a new router (tp-link ac4000) in the hope it would solve the problem but sadly it’s not.
Today I’ve since discovered that I’m unable to make phone calls out and when I try calling the answer doesn’t come on.
I’ve tried testing by connecting a lead from the test socket on the master box (mk3) straight to the dsl socket of the bt modem.
I’m finding that while I have both the router and the modem on the LAN1 port flashes amber very quickly on the modem. When I turn off the router the amber light goes out.
So bypassing my internal wiring I’m still having the same problem.
I should also mention that I’ve logged a call with BT as I have no phone!

If anyone has any thoughts I’d love to hear
Many thanks

The historic drop outs are symptomatic of a one leg dis fault, this would hang with the no dial tone issue too.

Once the line fault is fixed, the t’interweb will be sorted.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

The historic drop outs are symptomatic of a one leg dis fault, this would hang with the no dial tone issue too.

Once the line fault is fixed, the t’interweb will be sorted.

Dialect lessons needed here. "t'" in Yorkshireish is short for "the" so "the t'interweb" is a tautology. "t'interweb" would do quite nicely on its own.

In regard to the whole issue of Yorkshireish I have the profound benefit of not being from Yorkshire but I have learnt over the years that you can always tell a Yorkshireman. The problem is you can't tell him much.

In reply to a post by GonePostal:

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

The historic drop outs are symptomatic of a one leg dis fault, this would hang with the no dial tone issue too.

Once the line fault is fixed, the t’interweb will be sorted.

Dialect lessons needed here. "t'" in Yorkshireish is short for "the" so "the t'interweb" is a tautology. "t'interweb" would do quite nicely on its own.

In regard to the whole issue of Yorkshireish I have the profound benefit of not being from Yorkshire but I have learnt over the years that you can always tell a Yorkshireman. The problem is you can't tell him much.

The sad thing is, I knew I’d made that mistake, but couldn’t be arsed to rectify it.

Laziness personified

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

In reply to a post by GonePostal:

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

The historic drop outs are symptomatic of a one leg dis fault, this would hang with the no dial tone issue too.

Once the line fault is fixed, the t’interweb will be sorted.

Dialect lessons needed here. "t'" in Yorkshireish is short for "the" so "the t'interweb" is a tautology. "t'interweb" would do quite nicely on its own.

In regard to the whole issue of Yorkshireish I have the profound benefit of not being from Yorkshire but I have learnt over the years that you can always tell a Yorkshireman. The problem is you can't tell him much.

The sad thing is, I knew I’d made that mistake, but couldn’t be arsed to rectify it.

Laziness personified

There's nowt wrong with a bit of laziness.

In reply to a post by Rhynchelma:

There's nowt wrong with a bit of laziness.

When I was working I preferred to call it masterly inactivity. Better than confusing motion with progress.

Edited by GonePostal (Thu 06-May-21 12:50:16)

Thank you I'll keep my fingers crossed that get things sorted asap!

In reply to a post by GonePostal:

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

The historic drop outs are symptomatic of a one leg dis fault, this would hang with the no dial tone issue too.

Once the line fault is fixed, the t’interweb will be sorted.

Dialect lessons needed here. "t'" in Yorkshireish is short for "the" so "the t'interweb" is a tautology. "t'interweb" would do quite nicely on its own.

In regard to the whole issue of Yorkshireish I have the profound benefit of not being from Yorkshire but I have learnt over the years that you can always tell a Yorkshireman. The problem is you can't tell him much.

Why is not being from Yorkshire such a profound benefit “because, if it’s outside Yorkshire, it’s not worth bloody visiting”, “alright”.

The ‘t’ replaces “to” and “the” usually, although in Yorkshire we “wunt” really use “the” often anyways so it’s more the “to” it’s replacing with just the ‘t’.

Not many people left who speak “Yorkshire” in the way all you Southerners think. Only likely to hear it in oldies from deepest darkest Barnsley. More people now just seem to miss letters off words rather than replacing the joining words, like “I’m gouwin pub” rather than “I’m going ‘t’ pub”.

In reply to a post by gary333:

Not many people left who speak “Yorkshire” in the way all you Southerners think.

As someone from the North of England I find comments like that a bit rich coming from those living in the North Midlands rather than the North of England.

London to Leeds 195 miles
London to Berwick 339 miles

So Yorkshire is just over halfway from London to the Scottish border. However, in true Hear All, See All style, those North Midlands residents make big play about being from the North when we all know that it is all mouth and trousers.

And they aren't even scratching the surface of being from the North when you consider that there is another country which is part of the UK which goes for another 335 miles past Berwick (before you start counting the offshore islands).