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.
\nThe phone line was dead. As if disconnected.
\nI 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!
\nthat 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}