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From: sinkywinky
31 Jul 2013 16:14
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT)
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Unfortunately BT own all the telcoms infrastructure so breaking into the market is a bit difficult.
Normal ADSL doesn't need anyone to come to the house, but fibre does.
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)
31 Jul 2013 17:40
To: sinkywinky
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You and your fancy fiber! Fibre?
EDITED: 31 Jul 2013 17:40 by SHIELDSIT
From: Serg (NUKKLEAR)
1 Aug 2013 13:06
To: ANT_THOMAS
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That still happens in a lot of houses, it's all down to whether the line had recently been active and whether it's still usable. If the line has never been used, then you'd obviously need an engineer to attend.
From: ANT_THOMAS
1 Aug 2013 13:21
To: Serg (NUKKLEAR)
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Does someone actually manually disconnect a phone line at the cabinet or exchange once it's not been active for a while?
I could be wrong but I would've expected the previous tenants to have had an internet connection. Or at least the ones before that.
From: Serg (NUKKLEAR)
1 Aug 2013 13:26
To: ANT_THOMAS
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No they shouldn't, but who knows.. maybe they re-use ports if they're inactive, or the line might've been damaged since? I'm pretty sure they can test the line remotely and if it doesn't look to be the right length then they have it checked.
As for FTTC, that does need an engineer install - definitely first time it's done at a property anyway.
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)
1 Aug 2013 14:34
To: ALL
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I just had a similar (not really) thing happen.
Two weeks agoish we started having daily disconnects at one of our remote locations. Nothing had changed. Then the modem died and I replaced it, but the drops kept happening. So they came Tuesday and wiggled some wires and said they think it's fixed. Wednesday it dropped again (actually, in 40 minutes it had disconnected/reconnected almost 500 times) so they came back out. Turns out the lines are buried and they are going to have to dig up an area where a splitter is installed. Depending on the location and type of split it will take 2-6 weeks for the repairs to begin. So this is going to be fun, when we lose connection they can't do any type of work because everything, even the equipment requires connection to the main office. /fuckme!
From: graphitone
1 Aug 2013 15:19
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT)
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Is it possible to drive over there and install a temporary DC?
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)
1 Aug 2013 17:09
To: graphitone
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I have a DC there but the SQL server and everything else is at the main office.
From: graphitone
1 Aug 2013 17:15
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT)
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Ah, s'a bit like our setup - DCs at remote sites and local dictation servers, so they can work a bit if the circuits between go down, but everything else is hosted at the main office. It gets too damned expensive to go down alternative resilient routes.
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)
1 Aug 2013 17:44
To: graphitone
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I have three buildings at this location and they each have DSL. Only one is going down so I'm going to build a wireless link between the three, cancel all but one DSL account and get cable installed. Then I should have pretty good redundancy.