Crackle
:( our phone line has developed a problem and there is an extremely bad crackling noise on it. If you are trying to contact us then mobiles are the best bet since voice is unintelligible.
Surprisingly, ADSL is still syncing albeit at 1-3M rather than the usual 8M, with SNR down to 4-8 instead of around 15dB. It's funny that you can't make a telephone call but can get better than dial up speeds. Plenty of packet loss too meaning our 'net is extremely flakey.
This morning I isolated all our phone equipment to make sure the fault wasn't on our premises so I'm sure of that.
Our phone provider is Exetel, who are reselling an Optus Wire Line service, of which the 'last mile' is owned and managed by Tel$tra. This means I don't have high hopes of it getting fixed anytime soon - I can only hope that someone else in the street has the same problem and is a Tel$tra customer and that our line gets fixed at the same time. In any case a fault has been logged with Exetel and we'll see what happens...
