Re: Noisy phone lines [Was: Re: [LUG] ISP - Recommendations anyone?]

["Colin James" <colin.james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I used to have a really noisy phone line in my last house but everytime the 
engineer came he did something to the junction box on the road and it went 
away for a couple of weeks then came back. after moving here I had the same 
problem but that was due to all the filters I had being duff (even my spares 
so i didn't think for a moment it was them!).
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Wonnacott" <jwon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: Noisy phone lines [Was: Re: [LUG] ISP - Recommendations 
anyone?]


> Here's an interesting one:-
> My 'phone stopped working last Tuesday- but my broadband connection is 
> still up. An engineer came to look at it on Thursday and told me that one 
> wire in the pair was broken. When I said that my broadband still worked he 
> said that was possible because it only uses one wire. this still didn't 
> satisfy me and I pointed out that in my experience the flow of a current 
> requires a complete circuit. He maintained that the broadband connection 
> uses only frequency...... but surely it is the frequency of the current 
> that flows in the circuit???????
>
> Anyone got any knowledge on this ???????
>
> James (puzzled)
>
> BTW the phone still isn't working, but the broadband is fine :-)
>
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