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INFINITY FAULT No. 18 in 12 MONTHS!!!

Jdatkin
Power User

Today marks fault no 18 in 12 months on our supposed super-duper fast infinity connection??

 

Once again the dsl light in the Openreach router is dead!

 

Turned off for 10 mins, rebooted - no luck

Test socket & Rebooted - Nothing!!

 

Phone line works fine, but broadbamnd is dead - AGAIN.

 

Called the helpdesk, and no surprises, we have a local network fault once again!

 

**PREDICTION**

I predict once again that when an engineer comes out, they are going to tell me eventually that theres a fault with the port, and after a few hours they are going to do a port swap!

 

If im proved correct this will be about the fourth port swap.

 

No i would be tempted to think that the card which holds the ports could be faulty, HOWEVER, on the same site there is another infinity connection which was installed within a few days of my connection, the other comes from the same drop wire, and the same cabinet and card, and this has not had any problems.

 

It seems to me that its more likely that there is something wrong with my line somewhere between the cabinet and my property which is repeatedly causing the problem.

 

I mention this every time, and they faff about, swap the port and get it going, and then say, everything is fine now, which it always is for a while, then bang it goes belly up again!

 

NOBODY appears to be bothered with sorting the causative problem.

I accept that it may be a difficult to actually trace the causative problem, and it may take additional man or woman hours, BUT, surely it isnt fair that i have had 18 faults in 12 months!, i cannot beleive that this is an acceptable level of faults!

 

I am absolutely sick to death of this recurring problem, and im sick to death of BT being SORRY, but not sorry enough to actually put someone on the job to actually trace the fault to prevent further faults.

 

ANY SUGGESTIONS WILL BE GRATEFULLY RECEIVED

 

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Jdatkin
Power User

IM BACK ONLINE!!!

 

Engineer called this morning to sort the ever unreliable infinity connection.

 

IT SEEMS MY PREDICTION WAS COORECT!!

 

I predicted that he would return from the Cabinet up the road to declare that the port was faulty, AND HE DID!

 

I had told him about the ongoing Saga and he said that as far as he could tell it was a dodgy port, but going through the history he agreed that there must be something else wrong which is causing the recurring 'faulty port'.

 

Im now waiting for the escelations team to come back to me as they had apparently asked for openreach to look into possible causes!, lets see what happens next!!

Jdatkin
Power User

After being repaired and back online on tuesday afternoon, it appears it broken again!!

 

Same as always, done a reboot leaving it off for 10 mins then powering up, NOTHING, NO DSL Light.

 

Whats the betting it results in yet another Port Change At The Cabinet!!!!

 

Its funny, The BT chairmans office called earlier today to say that they have asked Openreach to send an engineer out to look specifically at why this circuit keeps suffering such a recurring problem!!, and they had arranged for someone to come  next wed to take a look and try and get to the bootom of it all!!

 

Whats the betting they send one engineer out to fix it up again, and i predict again that it will result in another port swap, and then another engineer out to try to find the source of the problem in stead of sending one engineer to sort it and trace the underlying problem whilst the problem exists!!

 

Ill keep you informed

Jdatkin
Power User

Friday - Engineer Came.

 

YET ANOTHER PORT SWAP, and we was away, back up and running, NICE!!

 

SATURDAY MORNING - DEAD AGAIN!!!! YOU HAVE TO BE JOKING ME!!!

 

And cue the next engineer,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

 

 

 

Jdatkin
Power User

Was told this morning that i would have an engineer with me this afternoon between 1 and 6pm, then a little bit later in the conversation i was told that the appointment had been confirmed - NICE!!

 

About an hour later, they called me back to say Openreach have cancelled the appointment, as they want to run a few line tests, then if they think that i still need an appointment they will book again!!

 

About 10am, the helpdesk called me again.

They said that Openreach had run line tests, pretty much the same as what the helpdesk already did, and they confirmed that i do indeed need an engineer.

**BUT, sadly all the appointments have now gone for this afternoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thats really not much use at all for us who have no broadband, on fault number 20, and just into the busiest 10days of the xmas period for us, in fact the busiest time of year!

 

VAST AMOUNTS OF TIME, MONEY & ORDERS WASHING DOWN THE PAN AS WE SPEAK!