Comment by C1sc0cat
5 years ago
I recall one of my colleagues at British telecom who told a story that when debugging random noise on the line.
It turned out to be the subscribers (a little old lady) budgie swinging on its perch was causing the problem.
Reminds me of a story from my colleague, who used to work at a tech help desk at a telecom some years ago. He told me about a curious case of a house which, despite being located next to the network node, appeared as if it was kilometers away from the signal loss POV. It turned out that for unknown reasons, instead of cutting the necessary length of cable to install, someone just connected both ends through a fresh cable spool and buried that spool underground.