Anyone with phone line probs due to electric fence?

[AndyAudi]

As per title, just wondering if anyone on here had encountered any prob's and if so how they were resolved. Effect of fence is clicking on phone line & disruption of internet. The Telecom Company has not been much help but confirmed it it the fence. (the phone cable lies beside the fence line)

[elster]

Screened cable?

[spikeyhead]

There's probably a blown capacitor in the electric fence which will cause the pulses to have some nasty harmonics on that shouldn't be there. Try a different unit on it.

[Kill Mandelson]

Is it buried near to fence or fixed nearby (how close?) How far do they run alongside each other?. AFAIK there are no fixes for the cable itself bar moving it. A possibility is the fitting of an RF filter which BT do provide to their ADSL engineers to fit at the master socket. This could reduce the broadband cut outs but not the clicking.

[AndyAudi]

The phone cable looks like it was never laid properly and has "grown into" the roadside verge. Electric fence is a few feet away, and they run together for about 100m. It may be possible to try and get some of this moved but is getting them seperated by 30m likely to bring significant improvment? I have heard discussion about some sort of filter.

[mybrainhurts]

AndyAudi said:

Anyone with phone line probs due to electric fence?

No, but I once got a bit of a kick in the knackers...

[spikeyhead]

mybrainhurts said:

AndyAudi said:

Anyone with phone line probs due to electric fence?

No, but I once got a bit of a kick in the knackers...

I've opened one up to fix it.

Next time I'll make damn sure its fully discharged before taking a screwdriver to it.

[AndyAudi]

spikeyhead said:

mybrainhurts said:

No, but I once got a bit of a kick in the knackers...

I've opened one up to fix it.

Next time I'll make damn sure its fully discharged before taking a screwdriver to it.

[bimsb6]

so is the phone cable underground or at a very low level ?

[Kill Mandelson]

Its the long distance and a few feet proximity. Is 30m a possibility as I would say 3m is ok so long as it is buried properly, say a minimum 18 inches.

[AndyAudi]

bimsb6 said:

so is the phone cable underground or at a very low level ?

Under a couple of inches of top soil and weeds in the road verge rather than dug in.