From: "Bishoop"
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Phone Line Problem
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:23:56 -0400
"ML" wrote in message
news:u9ahe.1217$OT3.62@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com...
>I discovered this morning that I have no dial tone on any of the phone
>lines
> in my house. I know it was working fine on Monday but I haven't used it
> in
> the past few days. When I used my cell phone to call my home, I got a
> busy
> signal, even when I disconnected every phone line from the jacks.
> Strangely
> enough, my DSL service was working fine. I went to the outside phone box
> and disconnected the test jack, opening up the connection between the
> phone
> company's line and my inside lines. When I called my home again, this
> time
> I got a ring tone instead of the busy signal. When I plugged a phone into
> the test jack, I was able to make a phone call. So I expect that the
> phone
> company (SBC) will tell me that this means there is nothing wrong with the
> line to my house, the problem is with the inside wiring, and that I will
> have to pay them to come repair it.
>
> I would like to see if there's anything I can do to try to troubleshoot or
> fix this myself before hiring someone to do it, since the quotes I've
> gotten
> are for $90/hour. Can anyone give me some suggestions or point me to some
> Web sites that might help? I tried Google but I wasn't able to find
> anything helpful in the first few pages of results that it returned.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mary
It could be a shorted wire or a shorted jack in the house.
Are phone the jacks in your home all wired as "home runs", "daisy chained"
or a combination of the two?
If they are home runs disconnect them at the interface and reconnect them
one at a time till you find the shorted one.
If they are daisy chained you can disconnect the wires at the phone jacks
and narrow down you search for the culprit that way.
Here's a link I goggled up. I didn't read any of it but it may prove useful
to you.
http://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/inftelephone/inftel1.shtm
HTH
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