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Mark

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#228554 11-Jan-2018 11:56
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Just had a fault fixed on my VDSL line ... was getting 70/30 speeds, then the storm knocked out the local cabinets and after Chorus fixed that I was back online at 18/9, not so nice I thought, so got a fault logged and let 2Degrees do al their testing stuff to no avail so I asked them to log a Chorus job yesterday.

 

The Chorus guy arrived this morning (nice and quick!), plugged his widgets in and couldn't get a tone signal at all .. walked off to the grey mushroom thing with the wires in it and found one wire completely snapped, joined it back up and back to 70/30 again!

 

Both of us puzzled as to how I was even getting any internet at all!

 

So can VDSL sync up with only a single wire ?


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  #1936152 11-Jan-2018 12:17
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Amazing as it seems, DSL can work on one wire, but not very well as you have experienced.

 

My DSL at my new house was rubbish so I got Chorus to investigate.  Turned out that the internal wiring from the ETP to Master jack was incorrect - Orange & White wire at ETP and Yellow & White wire at Master jackpoint. Despite only one "leg" of the circuit being connected, the interwebs continued (albeit rather lethargically) to flow.

 

If there had been a PSTN service on the landline it would have been obvious due to lack of dialtone.

 

DSL is not as straight-forward as you might think - it can be "working" but not connected correctly.

 

This is a big issue when ISP helpdesks will check if you can get a webpage to load - then tell you your problem "is most likely due to network congestion". 

 

Wiring faults in buildings are a large contributor to poor internet experience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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