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On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 04:05:20PM +0000, Martijn Grooten wrote: > Nothing to do with Linux really, except that I'd like to get back online > with my Linux machine. > > So our phone line has always been a bit noisy. Occasioanlly this caused > the connection to drop (especially when the phone rang), but it always > came back within a minute. Yesterday the phone rang and the connection > went down... and hasn't come back since. > > ISP says the line is fine from their end and the BT quiet line test does > show a bit of noise. All of which suggests there's too much of noise on > the line and I need to call BT and tell them to sort it. Which I will > do. > > But I am (probably naively) hoping there's something I can do in the > meantime, given that the line has, despite its problems, given us > Internet for six years. Something I can reset, something that might have > triggered the noise to become too much. 19 days after the ADSL dropped and three visits of OpenReach engineers (two on behalf of BT, one on behalf of the broadband provider) later, the ADSL is fixed again. Hurray. (I try to respond to me own questions once they have been solved, as it might be useful for others - if only people reading this in the archives. But I find it hard to turn this into useful advice.) Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq