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Thread ID: 119067	2011-07-03 04:37:00	Crackling phone lines	rumpty (2863)	PC World Chat

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1214408	2011-07-04 09:52:00	Do you have a master xDSL splitter installed? This can make a huge difference if you have a dodgy phone line. I've done about 4 master splitter installs in the last few months for people who had the same problem as you with noisey line and broadband dropping out all the time. None are experiencing any dropouts any more and we've had a lot of rain up here in the last few months.	CYaBro (73)
1214409	2011-07-04 10:36:00	In the days before pressurisation, (1970s) the Mt Eden cables were very leaky and there were many faults caused by moisture . It seemed as though all you needed was a heavy dew and the cables would go faulty . The Brits were pressurising cables in the 1950's . I doubt that NZ would have lagged far behind . Unless there was a major break there wasn't much air flow involved so the compressors didn't run often .	PaulD (232)
1214410	2011-07-04 11:09:00	Do you have a master xDSL splitter installed? This can make a huge difference if you have a dodgy phone line. I've done about 4 master splitter installs in the last few months for people who had the same problem as you with noisey line and broadband dropping out all the time. None are experiencing any dropouts any more and we've had a lot of rain up here in the last few months. Yes, i do have a master splitter. It makes the house wiring simpler, and, as you say, probably gets the best out of the line. That was my thinking when it went in. The crackling has gone away now, by the way. My ADSL connect speed is normal again. And I didn't even phone in a fault report.	rumpty (2863)
1214411	2011-07-04 22:35:00	The Brits were pressurising cables in the 1950's. I doubt that NZ would have lagged far behind. Unless there was a major break there wasn't much air flow involved so the compressors didn't run often. But NZ was that far behind. I worked for the Post Office faults department - now Telecom - from 1973 and there were few pressurised cables in those days. Pressurised cables were mainly found in new exchanges such as Mangere 1974. Mt Eden had their cables pressurised late 1970s which cut down the faults in those old cables dramatically.	Roscoe (6288)
1214412	2011-07-04 23:00:00	Maybe it depended on where in the country you were. I started as an exchange tech in Wgtn in 71 and one of the things you did each morning was record the airflow readings for the cables. I don't know how long how long this had been in place before I got there but the equipment was in all the exchanges I worked in.	PaulD (232)
1214413	2011-07-04 23:28:00	My work experience began in 1974 at the then new Mangere exchange in Auckland which, as I said, had pressurised cables from the outset. I then moved to the Faults Service in Auckland near the large Airedale St exchange building. One of the areas we looked after was Mt Eden that has some of the oldest and most leaky cables in Auckland. The fault count in Mt Eden was always high until they spent much time and money sealing as many of the leaks as they could and then pressurising the cables. What a difference that made to the customers in that area as well as our workload. Many more exhanges had their cables pressurised over the years and we noticed the faults count drop. The improvement is such that there is now one fault centre, in Takapuna, Auckland, for the entire country. That would have been impossible in the 1970s when they had five fault centres in Auckland alone and many more scattered around the country. Modern technology played a big part in that as well with computerised fault testing and record keeping.	Roscoe (6288)
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