After putting up with a crackling noise which was was on our Optus line for the past cuppla weeks and having looked up their outage site on Dr Google I decided to take the bullet between my teeth and report the problem. To my surprise I could understand the man on the other end of the line verbally yodeling too me and after a few minutes telling him how many wives I have had, the number of my own teeth I possess etc. I was able to get him to test my line.
I had done an isolation test and did so to avoid the $90 cost they might slug me with if the problem was past the point of entry.
Back in the old days the Telstra cable came into a 2 pair block in the garage,now the Optus optic cable comes across the road about 20ft in the air and into some grey box. Somehow the telephone number is in that cable and gets filtered out into the same 2 pair block.
The man could not understand that I had done the isolation test so I had to go around the house unplug the 3 position cordless phone and fixed T200 in the bedroom as well as the fixed generic wallphone in the laundry under the house. He called me back on my mobile and said the line was ok -I plugged in the cordless base and i was still crackling. Soooo now he would get it checked further. We yodeled goodbye to each other and i put all the rest of the phones back into service.
On picking the last tel. up there was no dial tone, side tone --no bloody tone.
A cuppla yrs ago it took 2 weeks to have a line fault fixed on our phone number.
After 1/2 an hour i checked the line-still. I thought something during the test had blocked the line.
I rang Optus again - same yodeling session and this time he said there was a line fault and he would get a serviceman out tomorrow morning between 7-12am. i.e. if the fella doesn't take a sickie-you know Fridayitis.
It's amazing, I rang to report a noisy line and now we have "sweet fuming armpits". SFA.
The cable internet still works but somewhere out there a terminal crackle exists.
So much for Yodeling in Indian.
To be continued........
Jaros (and his working mobile phone)
I had done an isolation test and did so to avoid the $90 cost they might slug me with if the problem was past the point of entry.
Back in the old days the Telstra cable came into a 2 pair block in the garage,now the Optus optic cable comes across the road about 20ft in the air and into some grey box. Somehow the telephone number is in that cable and gets filtered out into the same 2 pair block.
The man could not understand that I had done the isolation test so I had to go around the house unplug the 3 position cordless phone and fixed T200 in the bedroom as well as the fixed generic wallphone in the laundry under the house. He called me back on my mobile and said the line was ok -I plugged in the cordless base and i was still crackling. Soooo now he would get it checked further. We yodeled goodbye to each other and i put all the rest of the phones back into service.
On picking the last tel. up there was no dial tone, side tone --no bloody tone.
A cuppla yrs ago it took 2 weeks to have a line fault fixed on our phone number.
After 1/2 an hour i checked the line-still. I thought something during the test had blocked the line.
I rang Optus again - same yodeling session and this time he said there was a line fault and he would get a serviceman out tomorrow morning between 7-12am. i.e. if the fella doesn't take a sickie-you know Fridayitis.
It's amazing, I rang to report a noisy line and now we have "sweet fuming armpits". SFA.
The cable internet still works but somewhere out there a terminal crackle exists.
So much for Yodeling in Indian.
To be continued........
Jaros (and his working mobile phone)
