The home phone line (part of Verizon FIOS triple play) was dead for last few days. I did not even know that :-( As you can guess, the phone is used very rarely. No dial tone but I hear my own echo back; really weird! I go through the usual online reset etc but still nothing doing. Finally called the CSR and she does few reboots and eventually tells me that they don't see anything wrong from their end. She can send technician but will charge me if found problem in the house wiring. So finally, I get off my butt and hook up a phone to the the ONT (aka their box in the basement) and to my surprise I have the dial tone. I left the wireless base station connected to the ONT and now all phones in the house are working. That base station used to be connected in computer room phone jack before. So that was the only physical jack that was in use. Obviously, when the house was new, all the rooms jack were working and had active phones.
I want to know how to fix the wiring. Nothing was done to the wiring in years but something has gone wrong with the home wiring. It is a 2000 era house and is wired as single loop through out the house. The first drop is in the dining room behind the china cabinet and that can NOT be moved. Rest of the drops I would be able to get to. I am also little worried if a critter in the wall caused this problem. That is my biggest worry. If the corrosion etc caused this, I don't really care as I don't see this wiring would be used by us or subsequent owners.
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I want to know how to fix the wiring. Nothing was done to the wiring in years but something has gone wrong with the home wiring. It is a 2000 era house and is wired as single loop through out the house. The first drop is in the dining room behind the china cabinet and that can NOT be moved. Rest of the drops I would be able to get to. I am also little worried if a critter in the wall caused this problem. That is my biggest worry. If the corrosion etc caused this, I don't really care as I don't see this wiring would be used by us or subsequent owners.
Comments?