[geeks] debugging house phones

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> Date: 2004/08/24 Tue PM 06:42:30 GMT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: [geeks] debugging house phones
> 
> I am trying to debug someone's house phones.

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> The only sure test I know of is to connect their modem and one POTS
> phone directly to the telco side, and then call line A to see if
> the modem hangs up and if there is inteference.  Right now, that's
> physically difficult, and I'd have to buy a long cable and some
> alligator clips.
> 
> What else could I check on?

Have you thought about simply disconnecting two of the three phones on line A, to reduce the load? I would suspect there is too big a current drain to get all three phones to ring, and that is causing problems for line B.

Just a thought, IANATE (I Am Not A Telco Expert).