lack of phone line problem

[baratron]

Argh! We have no home phone line, for reasons unknown. Although it affects (at the very least) everyone in our block who uses BT, said company have, in their infinite wisdom, told us it will be "up to 5 days" before it can be fixed. So alarm and calamity. Not that I could care less about receiving voice calls (anyone who actually wants to get hold of us will ring our mobiles anyway), but cutting us off from the internet is like cutting us off from TV, the public library and the pub all at the same time! Argh!

Anyway, miraculously!, for some strange reason, we still have internet connectivity. While I understand it is possible for the voice part of the line to be broken but the ADSL part to work, it seems wrong somehow. And I'm expecting at any minute for the ADSL to die as well (maybe if an overenthusiastic BT engineer decides to try "rebooting" the line but doesn't do it properly?). So if you don't hear from me for the next n days, that'll be why.

Did I already say argh? Argh!

Comments

[hypermallard.livejournal.com]

I had exactly the same in my last flat. The phone was FUBAR but the ADSL was OK. That was more a local problem (loose wiring in the building somewhere), but there was another time when there was a problem where it was going to take a large number of working days to fix - which I found incredibly hard to believe. I mean, is it really that hard to reset a small concentration of phone lines?

Ah well.

[36.livejournal.com]

The same thing happened to our landline a few months ago. We had no dial tone but the ADSL worked fine. Actually I think it was that the line wouldn't power the phones because the light on my phone would come on dim then turn off. I assume that ADSL doesn't require power on the line, so perhaps you have the same kind of problem we had?