RE: Incoming telephone calls dropped after one ring

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unlikely to work :(

Once a socket has been wet it will get corroded and persistantly cause
problems. It will also severely affect your ADSL speed as well. We had a
damp socket at work which wasn't affecting the operation of the phoen line
but out ADSL download speed was only about 274K despite being next door to
the exchange. After the socket was changed out speed was 7MEGS !!!

You could prove if it is the socket by disconnecting the BT line from the
rear of it and ringing the line with nothing connected to the end of the
wire. It should just ring ad ring when you all from your cellphone. If it
still trips the fault is on the actual line itself.

If its just the NTE5 causing the problem you can buy one from
www.solwise.co.uk to avoid any possible charges that you might get if you
call BT in. Might also be quicker !!!!

HTH

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
David Gumbrell
Sent: 29 January 2008 23:20
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Incoming telephone calls dropped after one ring

Thanks Keith,
Unless it's coincidental it seems likely to be inside at the NTE5 since the
wall has been tanked and there's a lot of condensation running it down it.
I'll take the faceplate off and see if I can get it to dry out a bit.

Cheers

David

On 29/01/2008, Keith Doxey <ukha@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Classic case of Ring Trip.
>
> The line is wet somewhere. If its failing at just the NTE 5 then the
> fault is on BTs part of the network and you need to call them. Most
> likely a fault outside the premises, most likely underground, unless
> the NTE5 got wet when the plasterer was working.
>
> HTH
>
> Keith
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of David
> Gumbrell
> Sent: 29 January 2008 19:47
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [ukha_d] Incoming telephone calls dropped after one ring
>
> Hi
>
> My phones were disconnected/reconnected repeatedly for a few days
> whilst the plasterer was working round the master socket. An internal
> phone line was cut accidentally. After completion of the work a normal
> phone was connected on Monday and worked fine. Monday night I added
> some secondaries and they were getting a dialtone which was all I
> tested, but this morning I got told that incoming calls get dropped
> after the first ring. This is still happening even after I have
> disconnected all phones and plugged a single one directly into the BT
> NTE5. ADSL and outbound calls still work fine. BT ringback test fails.
>
> Anybody know what fault this is likely to be ?
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
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