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Travis Jordan
 
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Default phone line problem - advice wanted!

oktokie wrote:
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Currently, my phone line would not work from inside house but from
Network Interface phone works.
I hear strange alarming beeping tone when I lift headset off the tone.
Here is what my strange beeping dial tone sounds like

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That's a fast busy or 'reorder' tone. One side of the line is shorted
to ground between the telco demarc and your phone. Could be a defective
phone (i.e. as the result of a lightning strke). If you have more than
one phone, disconnect them all. If the problem goes away then plug the
phones back in one at a time until the problem reoccurs. Could also be
a damaged house pair as the result of who-knows-what.