RE: 100V on BT Line ?

["Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info Keith.




Dean.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Keith Doxey
> Sent: 14 December 2006 12:47
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] 100V on BT Line ?
>
> Hi Dean
>
> > Probably one for Keith D...
> >
> > My father has just had his HomeHighway removed, and changed back
> >
> > We had problems as soon as the removal was done with funny
> ringing and
> > hissing on line.
> >
> > and organised an engineer - he came and informed us that BT
> had left
> > the digital link in the exchange ? meaning that there was
> 100v on the
> > line instead of 50v.
> >
> > Question is has the damaged the brand new multifax thing -
> my father
> > has been having great trouble sending stuff since they
> fixed the line.
> >
>
> Unlikely that the FAX has been damaged as ringing on a normal
> line can put upto 90V ac on the line.
>
> Depending on length of line from the exchange, the line would
> also limit the current that could flow so there should be
> enough to do any damage.
>
> If the machine has been damaged by something as trivial as
> that then there is no way it will survive through thunder storms !!!
>
> Did he use the machine on the analogue ports of the HH before
> conversion ?
>
> It could also be down to the quality of the line.
>
> I only live 5 minutes walk from the exchange but when I had
> two analogue lines my modem would only manage 33k on one line
> and 41k (I think...its a long time ago) on the other. I had
> home highway installed and discovered that my old analogue
> modem would connect at 50k on the alalogue ports presumabley
> because the line was digital all the way to the house and was
> better quality. For conversion to ADSL I had to have HH
> removed two months before the exchange was ready and dropping
> back to a shared modem running at 33k was horrible after the
> luxury of 64K ISDN. No that I have 8Mb ADSL I dont want to go
> back to any form of dial up ....EVER :)
>
>
>
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