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"Max" <max@val.morgan> wrote in message 
news:movo12$6tm$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>
> "John G" <john.g@green.com> wrote in message 
> news:dJ-dnTPyg-HPni_InZ2dnUU7-VWdnZ2d@westnet.com.au...
>> Max was thinking very hard :
>>> I know someone with a crackly phone line and also a ADSL connection 
>>> which drops out from time to time.
>>
>>> What could be the cause?
>>
>> Anything. :-?
>> Lodge a call with you provider and follow their process.
>>
>
> It's Bigpond, so you get taken through an hour long script with someone 
> from the Philipines and then it gets 'escalated' to another 1 hour long 
> script with someone else,

Doesn't take anything like that when the
droid can hear the crackling themselves.

> then they send someone out who checks the lines and says something like 
> "Get a new router" or "Get new line filters".

And someone like me tell that goon that it can't be the cause
of the crackling because its still there with none of that on the
line and they realise that they'll have to fix the actual problem.

> I have told the bloke to get on to NBN satellite.

More fool you.

> At least then you don't have any issues with a bad line.

You are stuck with pathetic data limits. 

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