Subj : Dead Phone LIne.
To   : ALL
From : JAY EMRIE
Date : Sat Nov 27 2004 04:31 pm

I have been unable to connect to the internet or even use my telephone
for the last two days. I had been noticing a bit of static on my desk
phone every once in a while. As all know, DSL allows one to be on line
and use the voice phone at the same time. I had just received a fax from
my daughter, using the distinctive ring feature. A couple hours later
the voice and DSL went down the tubes. Couldn't call out and all callers
got a busy signal.

Here, the telephone comes in via a "service panel" (in my case has two
lines) which allows us to unplug the house wiring (thus removing the
house wiring completely) and plugging a phone in there (thus putting it
directly on the phone line and completely eliminating the house wiring).
Phone worked OK that way which says the house wiring is bad.

I had unplugged EVERYTHING on the phone line, one at a time, with no
help. I sw itched the jumper to the unused house wiring and replugged
everything in those line sockets exactly the same as it was in the other
line sockets) and all is now AOK

According to my brother, who used to work for SWBT (as it was then known)
if a caller gets a busy signal (WHICH THEY DID) there is a short between
the red and green in the house phone wiring; if the caller got ring then
there is an open in the house wiring.

The short business doesn't seem to hold water. Of course one has to
remember just the act of unplugging something >could< have disturbed
the wires thus removing the short. Using my Fluke meter on the lowest
ohm scale and on the highest (20 Meg Ohms) I get an infinite resistance
between the red and green wires - same on any other combination of the R
G B Y wires. Yes, I know the B and Y wires are unused in my case.

In order to check for an open, one would have to short the R and G wires
at the most remote phone outlet and then check for continuity at the
first phone outlet.  Hmmm??? I wonder just which one in my house IS the
most remote? The way the house is laid out it would be just a wild
guess.

There really isn't any easy way to check for an open.

Anyhow, since my attic is so restricted, because of small vertical space
between the roof and the ceiling joists, that one MUST crawl on his
knees across the ceiling joists to do anything in the attic I'll just
leave things as they are now. I am not able to crawl in the attic any
more. I've sure gone downhill physically in the last year. :-( :-(

Jay
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