On 8/10/2011 8:20 PM, HeyBub wrote:
frank1492 wrote:
Any ideas? I won't have my phone service restored until Aug. 20 due to
the strike. Have checked box connections and checked the ground. All I
hear on my phones is a slight hiss. Verizon says the line is OK. Have
tried phones directly from the box and also no dial tone.
If you have no clue, is there a forum that is particularly good at
this type of issue?
Thank you!
Frank

If you can't get a dial tone at the DMARC (the box outside that connects the
'phone company's lines to your house wiring), it's definitely a TELCO
problem.

As to what caused it, it could be anything from moisture in a terminal box
to union sabotage.

With Vonage - and others - you can get a box that plugs into your network
router. The other side of the box is a telephone jack. That jack acts
EXACTLY like a TELCO trunk line (except it's cheaper, you get all the add-on
stuff for free, and all the long distance you can eat).

Beat feet down to Best Buy, Walmart, and other places and pick up the Vonage
starter kit (about $20). Plug it in and you're good to go.

If you currently have call forwarding from your Telco, contact them and they
can forward all your calls to your new Vonage number.



Only works worth a damn if you have a real good internet connection.
VOIP and data do not play nice together.

Might be worth trying, to see if it is 'good enough' for your needs, but
it isn't a real phone line. I use VOIP via a dial-around for overseas
calls, and at work, we have multiple VOIP connections to sandbox.
Quality of call often sucks.

Just sayin'

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