Did some more fooling around with the phone today - went down into the rats nest that is where the two phone lines connect to the outside world (AT&T apparently never saw a wire they didn't like) and ran a short cable from the connection studs to a jack, then plugged in a phone.
Just dangling from the studs, the connection was clear. No static whatsoever. So it's got to be the wire. The one that's up there in the attic, buried under blown-in insulation.
Right now I'm wondering: phone lines are so 1950s. Maybe we should just say the heck with this jack, pull it and patch the hole, and find an alternative. I know Verizon has one that essentially ports our home number to their cellular network.....which of course you'd pay for. What I want is a router that accepts the incoming landline, and then a wifi connection from that router to the phones. Hmm....
2 comments:
half split fault finding.
So easy to explain. So hard to do.
Especially when the wire in question is buried inside walls and under insulation...
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