Freaky phones

[mikekn]

Just found out that our phones are dead - no dial tone. I checked all of them and they were all on-hook and all the cables are in good shape. I went outside and don't see any downed wires anywhere, plus I get no dial tone at the network interface box. The freaky part is I still have DSL, which runs over the same pair of wires...

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Do you have any exposed jacks on the floor which a cat could have peed upon? My sister just had weird phone troubles which were sourced to that.

[mikekn]

It's a possibility, but since the line is dead at the network interface box, the problem is almost certain to be outside the house. (There is still the chance that I screwed up testing at the box since we seem to have five lines coming into the house - but only one of them should be working.)

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Oh, right -- forgot that data point. Um, really big kitty at network box? ;)