![]() 10/27/2015 at 17:50 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
Trying to hookup our new DSL, I dissected our phone jack to see if I could get a better connection.
![]() 10/27/2015 at 17:56 |
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They wrote a book about that...
![]() 10/27/2015 at 17:59 |
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So... uhhh... what’s the issue?
![]() 10/27/2015 at 18:04 |
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See now is the time when you commit arson and insurance fraud.
![]() 10/27/2015 at 18:06 |
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Just the general mess of around 18 inches of wire, most of it doing nothing.
![]() 10/27/2015 at 18:08 |
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Looks like it’s up to code to me. From 1964.
![]() 10/27/2015 at 18:33 |
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It may be that old.
![]() 10/27/2015 at 19:11 |
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Wow, that wall has been painted a few times.
![]() 10/27/2015 at 19:54 |
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It is a roughly 40 year old apartment building. I’d be more surprised if it hadn’t been painted a half dozen times.
![]() 10/27/2015 at 20:01 |
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Do you have a phone number with the dsl? If so, find which side is feeding it. Then disconnect the rest and just hook the feed to the jack
![]() 10/27/2015 at 21:11 |
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Where you livin’ now Alfalfa?
![]() 10/27/2015 at 21:47 |
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“most of it doing nothing.”
Sounds like a potential opportunity!
![]() 10/27/2015 at 22:01 |
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Still in Salt Lake, same apartment. I’m just finally too sick of Comcast, and they’re the only cable Internet provider.
![]() 10/27/2015 at 22:22 |
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That’s what I was thinking of doing. But that means I really have to sort through this mess.
![]() 10/28/2015 at 09:13 |
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Reminds me of an apartment I had years ago. I couldn’t figure out why the phone wouldn’t get a dial tone. There was one at the junction box outside the house, but not in the apartment. Tracing the phone line through the apartment, down the side of a 3-story building and into the basement found the problem. There was a 6’ gap in the line in the basement, with the ends just handing down.
I rewired the place from the junction box out, but joked that apparently I was yelling loud enough into the phone to be heard across the gap.