1 Apr 2020 | Home Phone Repair |
What is it? It connects your house to the telephone pole, via the outside of a building. I recall seeing it first in 1969. It’s quite rare these days, and there’s not much information on-line. “Time for an “Old Grey BT Drop Wire – Some...
1 Apr 2020 | Home Phone Repair |
I am an independent telephone/broadband engineer. I’ve recently carried out work at a couple of houses to address Netflix buffering. Was it fixed? Yes. There is a simple solution which may just lead to a “buffer-free” life. However, I thought I’d put the...
5 Apr 2019 | Home Phone Repair |
Another frequently-searched phrase according to Google is “how to fix cut underground phone line” It Happens Frequently – Don’t Worry. Only last night I was contacted by a home-owner. His builders had unexpectedly met a cable when doing some groundwork. The...
22 Mar 2019 | Engineering |
We’ve been asked to provide an Avaya IP Office Telephone Engineer recently. We love sorting out problems with “orphan” systems. Usually, these lack a maintenance contract or even a casual relationship with an engineer. We’ve blogged about this, including...
20 Mar 2019 | Engineering |
Frequently, in our work as phone system engineers, we’re called out to try and sort out a fault on a business system by a desperate customer. An Awkward Conversation Us:- “So, don’t you have a maintenance contract for this system” Them:- “Well, we used...
