Some thieving bar stewards have knicked a load of BT cable resulting in our phone line going down since the 20th, broadband has come back today but phone line still dead, surely you need a phone line to have an active broadband ??
I can give you the technical explanation on how it works but it will bore people :P
Basicly is, you need an active line but the phone does not need to be active for broadband to work just the active line, 48 volts in phone outlet and 1 thread connection to the dslam on the phone central (jeez got a little tech anyway)
That was the short fast story on the works of xDSL (broadband)
They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time it works, every time.
I can give you the technical explanation on how it works but it will bore people :P
Basicly is, you need an active line but the phone does not need to be active for broadband to work just the active line, 48 volts in phone outlet and 1 thread connection to the dslam on the phone central (jeez got a little tech anyway)
That was the short fast story on the works of xDSL (broadband)
Thanks for that I'm still laughing at how puzzled the BT bod was on their helpline although I guess they are probably reading off a script anyway
I was thinking possibly a different broadband supplier were using your BT landline to get to the local exchange and that bit was working. They then 'routed off' onto their own network for the broadband and the BT line was broken after the local exchange.
Highly unlikely I know but trying to think of a reason why you had that problem.
Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:04 pm (Last edited: Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:05 pm)
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