Does only the RDY light go out when you lose connection?
My own upstream level is 52dBmV, but much past 55dBmV is asking for trouble I think. Temperature change quite often affects the amount of upstream power needed, so you find on cold days it'll work and then on hot days it'll fall over, or vice versa.
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Originally Posted by Saneboy13
That's a hell of a sweeping statement  . There are other possibilities of a phone problem, not just a MUX! There could be an intermittant earth or short on the line, it could be an extension dragging the line down, it could be faulty jelly crimps or a bad krone in the cabinets.
To just say "It's the MUX dying" is no help to man nor beast  |
I guess so, I had an intermittent telephony fault on Telewest when I lived with my parents, it was murder and only happened after 9pm. It took me 4 engineer callouts and an argument with Faults to get a senior engineer to come out, who decided the MUX was farked and changed me over.
Line shorts normally trip the safety circuits on the mux though, which means you get no dialtone at all until an engineer comes out (or perhaps they can do it remotely?)
POTS is rubbish anyway... roll on VoIP
