After nearly 18 months almost trouble free, last weekend a NBN technician was interfereing with the pit on our FTTN system. He said a previous technician had cut off the people further down the dead end street.
Since then, once we get some rain we have the internet appear and disappear every couple of minutes. The landline remains functional. Using Pingtools I can watch our IP address with TPG appear and disappear.
We are in for a wet summer so I can expect this to continue unless NBN fixes the issue.
If the weather fines up we are OK again and the TPG engineers say "problem resolved" which it is not until the NBN pinpoints why the internet is not remaining connected even though the landline is.
Can this be chased up with the NBN? It is not a problem from my modem to the devices on wifi. Ethernet connections from the modem are also affected.
An inspection of the pit with the tangle of wires in their closed container showed no moisture in that area and the pit is quite deep so it would not flood but these wires are only squeezed together, not soldered when a connection is made.
Screenshot shows the disconnected service.
