Odd things happening today. I wrote a long post about difficulties connecting to the internet now that we have switched to BT. At the start, I thought it was working, which is why I was rattling on about it (speed 10 times better at least). By the time I had finished, the whole of our communications system had gone on strike. I couldn't post to the thread so left my post to await developments. As far as it is concerned the development was that it disappeared into the ether, so there is nothing ot post, now that the engineer has been and gone and fixed it all.
Poor man - he came out to do a quick connection job at 0930 and he has just left at 1630. There were 2 faults on the line that he found right away (nobody had told him that we had reported a fault). One was on the telegraph pole across the road from us and the last link in the chain. The second was on the penultimate pole but it had been declared as unsafe for an engineer to climb so he had to go to town and borrow a "cherry picker" from a local electrical firm so that he could get to fix the fault. Then he found that there was another fault and had to fix that.
It's no surprise really. That line was put in in 1976 and, as far as I am aware, has never had work done on it.
I thought he had said that, because it is an old copper wire, we wouldn't be able to get the phone working, or we wouldn't be able to have broadband. I got that wrong somehow and by tomorrow we should have the phone working again as well as the broadband. Not sure what the speed is that we are getting, but it seems to me to be immediate response as opposed to the 3 or 4 minute wait to get anywhere that we did have. This seems to be a kind of bodged measure because of the copper wire and it is a way of getting it to work until we get fibre - maybe in ten years' time. Then it will be much faster. It's fast enough right now!
So, with great pleasure, and forgetting that this was supposed to be about FBG (because I've forgotten what it was) I am about to press the button.