Telephone Wire Repair Telephone Wire Repair - Talk of The Villages Florida

Telephone Wire Repair

Closed Thread
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 10-21-2021, 10:15 AM
SB8476 SB8476 is offline
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 20
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Default Telephone Wire Repair

Can you recommend someone who can troubleshoot and repair a telephone line within my home?
  #2  
Old 10-21-2021, 11:00 AM
villagetinker's Avatar
villagetinker villagetinker is offline
Sage
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Village of Pinellas
Posts: 11,111
Thanks: 3
Thanked 8,242 Times in 2,996 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by SB8476 View Post
Can you recommend someone who can troubleshoot and repair a telephone line within my home?
I can help, but I would like additional info. This could be the push down block in the low voltage panel, or a broken wire in one of the outlets. Are all of the outlets 'dead' or only one? Assuming you are using a modem to energize the phone outlets have you tried moving the modem connection to another outlet temporarily?
The phone outlets are all wired in parallel, so a break affects one outlet, and a short affects all outlets.
Hope this helps, feel free to send a PM if you would like me to look at your problem.
__________________
Pennsylvania, for 60+ years, most recently, Allentown, now TV.
  #3  
Old 10-21-2021, 11:09 AM
retiredguy123 retiredguy123 is offline
Sage
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 17,563
Thanks: 3,079
Thanked 16,727 Times in 6,619 Posts
Default

If you are using a digital phone service, like Xfinity, the easiest solution is to buy a set of cordless phones and connect the master phone to the modem. Then, use the other cordless phones in the other rooms. That way, you are bypassing the entire built-in phone wiring system. If you are using an actual analog phone service, you may want to consider switching to a digital service. It is cheaper and has many more calling features.
  #4  
Old 10-21-2021, 02:58 PM
villagetinker's Avatar
villagetinker villagetinker is offline
Sage
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Village of Pinellas
Posts: 11,111
Thanks: 3
Thanked 8,242 Times in 2,996 Posts
Default

I agree with above, however there are a couple of devices that still look for a real telephone line, the FAX option in my wireless printer expects a phone line, my wife's medical equipment expects a phone line, for example. We use a completely wireless phone system that is plugged into the house phone wiring which is then plugged into the modem. This gets all of our equipment working.
__________________
Pennsylvania, for 60+ years, most recently, Allentown, now TV.
Closed Thread

Tags
telephone, repair, wire, recommend, troubleshoot


You are viewing a new design of the TOTV site. Click here to revert to the old version.

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:53 PM.