Telephone out. Test jack turned out to be bad, plus an inside problem. DSL didn't seem to be affected much.
Telco guy gave me a nice new combo DSL splitter, test jack, half ringer and a DSL friendly protector. Cool!
My problem to find out what's wrong inside. I had 24 VAC on the inside lines when disconnected from the telco. Not good, I suppose. This means I have to look for active devces: router, TV, telco handset base station, PERS alarm system and a modem.
OK, I think I have it narrowed down to a bad ground on a circuit: where:\ my router is, where an access point and antenna amp is, where a surge suppressor and an outside GFCI outlet are. There are a couple refrigerators on this circuit too, but I think their outlets could be OK.
Now here is the fun parts:
My router connects to the phone line. With that wire pulled, everything seems OK. Yea, I know, routers aren't supposed to connect to the phone line. Mine does, because I had dial-up wireless for a while many years ago.
The TV connects to the phone line. Not a set-top box, but the TV. This TV has a speaker phone built into it called a SPACE PHONE. Yep, TV's aren't supposed to connect to the telephone line and the SPACE PHONE light was on when the TV was flakey. Unplugging the TV power cord between uses usually made the TV unflakey. I thought it was a temperature thing. it could take a month or so to verify this.
I haven't connected the suspect device to see if the phone system wacks out again, nor have I moved the stuff to another outlet and connected the router to the phone line, nor have I fixed the bad ground. I THINK know where the bad ground is though.
I'm wondering how this is going to play out?
I could see some poor tech trying to figure this out.
Telco guy gave me a nice new combo DSL splitter, test jack, half ringer and a DSL friendly protector. Cool!
My problem to find out what's wrong inside. I had 24 VAC on the inside lines when disconnected from the telco. Not good, I suppose. This means I have to look for active devces: router, TV, telco handset base station, PERS alarm system and a modem.
OK, I think I have it narrowed down to a bad ground on a circuit: where:\ my router is, where an access point and antenna amp is, where a surge suppressor and an outside GFCI outlet are. There are a couple refrigerators on this circuit too, but I think their outlets could be OK.
Now here is the fun parts:
My router connects to the phone line. With that wire pulled, everything seems OK. Yea, I know, routers aren't supposed to connect to the phone line. Mine does, because I had dial-up wireless for a while many years ago.
The TV connects to the phone line. Not a set-top box, but the TV. This TV has a speaker phone built into it called a SPACE PHONE. Yep, TV's aren't supposed to connect to the telephone line and the SPACE PHONE light was on when the TV was flakey. Unplugging the TV power cord between uses usually made the TV unflakey. I thought it was a temperature thing. it could take a month or so to verify this.
I haven't connected the suspect device to see if the phone system wacks out again, nor have I moved the stuff to another outlet and connected the router to the phone line, nor have I fixed the bad ground. I THINK know where the bad ground is though.
I'm wondering how this is going to play out?
I could see some poor tech trying to figure this out.
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