We lost dial tone at home. I tried everything - unplugged all the phones and fax machines - powercycled the alarm system and still NOTHING. No dialtone - not even a click - not even the kind of echo that you hear when you have a phone off the hook.
The phone line was dead. As if disconnected.
I was about to call the phone company and be a wimp - but then I noticed that somone had taken a phone wire connected to a wall plug and connected it into a free port on the 10/100 switch!
that was indeed out of the box thinking as a possible ereason why Internet would be down - but it made the phone system *very* unhappy. Unplugged the Ethernet switch from the phone jack and viola - all better.
Posted by csev at July 31, 2006 04:17 PM