The crackle of static - hearken back to an analogue age

The telephone at Castle Fox is currently unusable: all that you can hear is static, crackling, pops and... very distantly, the faint traces of what I assume is some sort of carbon-based lifeform trying to make contact.

*sigh*

I unplugged all the extension cables (router, upstairs phone), and plugged the downstairs phone into the microfilter into the main incoming socket, and it was still just white noise when I put the receiver to my ear.

So I'd better get KC to sort it out. The only question, really, is when, because time is a bit of the essence at the moment.

This is, actually, a problem that's been making itself evident for a while - I had just assumed it was dodgy wiring on my part. That may still, of course, be a contributory factor, but if the line in is flaky, then it's definitely beyond my control.

Unsurprisingly, this also seems to be having an impact on my interwebs...