Last night Stacey tells me she couldn’t get either the computer in the spare bedroom nor the computer in the basement to get a dial tone, but the kitchen phone worked fine.<\/p>\n
I had wired the basement line at the same junction that goes to the bedroom line, so I figured I’d made the connection loose somehow and the wires had fallen out or something. But it hadn’t.<\/p>\n
So why would the bedroom and basement jacks not be working where the rest of the jacks in the house did?<\/p>\n
Since moving into the house 3 months ago, we had given up DSL for economy. We were back in the dial up business after a 4 year hiatus. When I went out to buy a modem for my machine and installed it, it hyped how you could receive calls while staying on line. It even had answering machine software. I thought, wow, dial-up has come a long way, because once I’d installed it and logged on, we discovered we could place a call out using our only phone, the kitchen phone! No modem noise on the line!<\/i> (What should have been our first clue is in italics).<\/p>\n
The second clue is, I tried calling our house to test out the answering machine software, and it wouldn’t answer the line!<\/i> <\/p>\n
The third clue is that the back bedroom had been an office for the previous owners of the house.<\/p>\n
For those of you much quicker on the uptake than I, you’ve realized that there was a second line in the house that had been left active by the previous owners, and had finally been shut off yesterday.<\/p>\n
So, dial-up has gotten even suckier, because we can’t use the landline while we’re online, as we thought we could before. *sigh*<\/p>\n
But a big thanks to the previous owners, John and Janet Hagye, for giving us 3 months of a free extra line, even though we didn’t know it at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night Stacey tells me she couldn’t get either the computer in the spare bedroom nor the computer in the basement to get a dial tone, but the kitchen phone worked fine. I had wired the basement line at the … Continue reading