[GreenKeys] OT Pots DSL Filter

[Eric & Jia Bigham]

It also depends on what kind of phones you are using.  Some of the older phones, like my old rotary phones, are really picky about what circuits are what while newer phones aren’t all that picky and usually only use two circuits on a line.  For example… my rotary phones (yes, I am a bit nostalgic and old-fashioned ;o … can’t stand the sound of electronic bells ><: !~) use three lines - one being a ground for the bells.  The phone company was over here not too long ago (Windstream) repairing the phone line coming into my house.  Apparently, he reversed the two circuits while rewiring it (it was an old line and not color coded) because once he was done, all the phones in my house would work except for one rotary (I have two hooked up) - no dial tone or anything.  After some investigating, I switched around the two main circuits on the circuit board of the one non-functioning rotary and after that, it worked fine.  Then again, my newer AT&T wall phone - you could have the two circuits going into it one way or the other and it could care less.  Just my two cents :) ~

Sincerely,
telephone collector


> On Apr 29, 2017, at 7:15 pm, Bob kb8tq <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Telephone stuff in the home is all hooked in parallel. 
> 
> You appear to have a pretty limited number of wires 
> hooked up to that block and a whole lot of wires simply
> cut off and left dangling …
> 
> I haven’t seen the inside of that block, so no idea what
> sort of terminations it uses.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 29, 2017, at 6:50 PM, rice <riceboxjim at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Greetings GKers
>> 
>> I recently went back to DSL CenturyLink internet service from my High Cost Xfinity Cable.
>> 
>> I need to troubleshoot 2 non dial tone lines in the home itself
>> 
>> Having limited telephone wiring experience, these questions are now floating in my head
>> 
>> 1. Do all telephone lines in the walls hook up in series or parallel at the pots box ?
>> 
>> 2. Having a new DSL pots box filter/splitter is new to me, when I open same, which tool is used to punch down pairs on this thing ?
>> 
>> I'm only familiar with a 66 block from years past. :  (
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