Hi,
90% of the time, when our home phone rings, the ADSL connection is lost. BT have eliminated a line fault so I started some diagnostics...
I've extended from the master socket (old type, not NTE5) to a combined ADSL and phone wall-mounted socket. I disconnected the router from this and connected it directly (well, with an OEM phone extension) to the master socket. The problem seems to have gone away (unless I'm suddenly hitting a purple patch when the problem doesn't occur).
So it looks like when I extended the circuit I did something wrong. I'm guessing either a short or loose connection, rather than a fundamental problem like connecting the wires wrong - otherwise it would fail consistently.
I can open up the socket(s) and check the connections, but can anybody tell me theoretically which specific wires I should be looking at, that might have caused this problem?
Thanks
Jim[/i]
90% of the time, when our home phone rings, the ADSL connection is lost. BT have eliminated a line fault so I started some diagnostics...
I've extended from the master socket (old type, not NTE5) to a combined ADSL and phone wall-mounted socket. I disconnected the router from this and connected it directly (well, with an OEM phone extension) to the master socket. The problem seems to have gone away (unless I'm suddenly hitting a purple patch when the problem doesn't occur).
So it looks like when I extended the circuit I did something wrong. I'm guessing either a short or loose connection, rather than a fundamental problem like connecting the wires wrong - otherwise it would fail consistently.
I can open up the socket(s) and check the connections, but can anybody tell me theoretically which specific wires I should be looking at, that might have caused this problem?
Thanks
Jim[/i]