My Phoneline Problems

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Everytime it rains hard my phone/DSL line goes down. Yesterday I had a "Tech" in India tell me that my phoneline was working just fine when in fact my phoneline was full of static and had no dial tone. The DSL was also down. I tested the phoneline at the test port in the box with no change. After and hour on the cell phone with them yesterday they said that they would send out a "Repairman" today. I couldn't sleep so just on a lark I checked my phone and the line is clear as a bell. My DSL is also back up and working great. Something in my line gets wet with a hard rain but yet always dries back out before the phone company subcontracted repair man ever gets here to find the problem...LOL Here is a short list of problems that they have found in the past. 1. About few feet of wire up on the pole was melted. Lightning Strike maybe? 2. Rain cove on the junction in the line right by my house was open. 3. Squirrels chewed up another junction in the line behind my house in the alley. 4. The main junction box just up the street has also caused problems because it leaks. Its a wonderful world where the system that you pay money to use is such a mess.

[mockingbird]

Re: My Phoneline Problems

Somewhere in your neighborhood, there's a junction box where some lines meet. It's about 3 ft long by 2 feet wide with the depth of a shoebox. In my neighborhood it's grey colored.

You can easily lift the cover it's only attached with a rudimentary hinge. Inside are lots of inch wide screw-in fuses. Have the technician trace your line to the fuse in the box, unscrew the old fuse, clean out the oxide, and give you a new fuse.

[Junk Parts]

Re: My Phoneline Problems

Mb I guess that is the big junction box that is just up the street from me. It leaks and the repair men are always messing around in it. I never knew just what was in there myself. Thanks to you I now have an idea. If a repair man does show up today I'll ask him to clean out that fuse as you said. They just may have done something to it like that last night. My wife did put the hammer on them when she spoke to them. She told them that I have uncontrolled seizures that always require Medical Introvention and what "The Fuck" was she going to do when not having a working phone if I go down again! Come to think of it she was telling them the truth sort of. She didn't tell them that there are also two working cell phones here. Good for her for thinkng fast on her feet.