Diagnosing dead short in home phone wiring.
Found out today that there's a dead short in the home phone line.
Diagnosis steps:
Before you say anything about land lines, we have one as cellular reception is poor at our location and can be non-existent in inclement weather (service provider is Rogers, not that the other large incumbent Telus is much better, Bell and the other minor players are non-existent). We have to tell guests to turn off roaming otherwise they could end up with a huge bill.
Diagnosis steps:
- A single phone plugged directly into the POTS outlet of the FO modem works (dial tone and light).
- Once I plug in the line that goes to the rest of the house, nothing. No light, no dial tone.
- Using a splitter the directly-plugged in phone works as long as the other line is not plugged in (tried switching around cables on the splitter so that isn't the problem).
- Tried unplugging all the phones and devices connected into the home phone plugs (all at once) with no success.
- Nothing changed since it as last used yesterday afternoon (answering an incoming call). Nothing plugged in or unplugged for months.
Before you say anything about land lines, we have one as cellular reception is poor at our location and can be non-existent in inclement weather (service provider is Rogers, not that the other large incumbent Telus is much better, Bell and the other minor players are non-existent). We have to tell guests to turn off roaming otherwise they could end up with a huge bill.
I smile when I see container ships sailing past my house laden with stuff made in China