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The Other Mike[_3_]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:15:45 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Thursday, 14 November 2019 18:13:42 UTC, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I can now barely achieve 1Mbps download speed. Every three hours or so...
The rest of the time nothing.

Disconnect your telephonic equipment and apply a Megger to the line.

This will fizzle off the dampness.

If adopting this approach removing the spark gap limiter in the master
socket helps a bit too.

Needs to be an old wind up or press the button megger though, Sadly
my more modern one, maybe 10-15 years old with an lcd analogue display
just flashes up a warning that there is more than 50v on the line and
terminates the test

1000v up the line might eventually get the attention of openretch and
get the line fixed. What a ****ing useless piece of ****e they are.