Cheap phone cord (related to cheap extension cords)

Speaking of cheap cord, a few years ago I needed about 40 feet of
modular phone cord, and I was at a hamfest where they had 100 foot
roll of cord for less that Radio Shack sells 50. Plus it was right
there in front of me, and I wouldn't have to look any further.

So I bought it and it worked fine for a few years. I used the whole
100 feet without cutting because I thought someday I might need a 100
foot piece. But eventually it stopped, probably being I was stepping
on it a lot, and tugging on it, and once I burned it (although that
didn't keep it from working even though it had been cream colored and
now was distorted and black for 2 inches and around most of its
circumference).

And it was one of the days I was stepping on it and tugging it that it
stopped working. So I looked at the end through the clear modular
plug and it looked ok, so I cut off about 6 feet and crimped on
another modular plug, with the proper tool. But it didn't help.
Maybe it was not in those 6 feet that it broke.

I would have checked the cord, but it's hard to get a meter probe into
those little slots, and I was too lazy to get a pin from my sewing kit
and a wire with alligator clips from the basement. Eventuall I found
a modular wall box that took regular wire and one end and had two
modular jacks and used that, and found I had only made a connection
with two of the 4 wires, out of 1,2,3,4, I only got 1 and 2.

That's why it didn't work. The crimper was a cheap plastic imitation
of what the pros use, but it always worked before.

Then I noticed how cheap the wire was. For one thing, if you hold up
2 to 4 inches of it with an end on the end, it flops over. The wire I
usually use takes twice as long a piece to flop over.

Maybe you can recognize this stuff if you see it because it doesn't
have black, red, green, and yellow wires. It has white, green, white,
and white wires.

I didn't know it was possible to have wire this cheap!

mm wrote:

Cheap phone cord (related to cheap extension cords)

Speaking of cheap cord, a few years ago I needed about 40 feet of
modular phone cord, and I was at a hamfest where they had 100 foot
roll of cord for less that Radio Shack sells 50. Plus it was right
there in front of me, and I wouldn't have to look any further.

So I bought it and it worked fine for a few years. I used the whole
100 feet without cutting because I thought someday I might need a 100
foot piece. But eventually it stopped, probably being I was stepping
on it a lot, and tugging on it, and once I burned it (although that
didn't keep it from working even though it had been cream colored and
now was distorted and black for 2 inches and around most of its
circumference).

And it was one of the days I was stepping on it and tugging it that it
stopped working. So I looked at the end through the clear modular
plug and it looked ok, so I cut off about 6 feet and crimped on
another modular plug, with the proper tool. But it didn't help.
Maybe it was not in those 6 feet that it broke.

I would have checked the cord, but it's hard to get a meter probe into
those little slots, and I was too lazy to get a pin from my sewing kit
and a wire with alligator clips from the basement. Eventuall I found
a modular wall box that took regular wire and one end and had two
modular jacks and used that, and found I had only made a connection
with two of the 4 wires, out of 1,2,3,4, I only got 1 and 2.

That's why it didn't work. The crimper was a cheap plastic imitation
of what the pros use, but it always worked before.

Then I noticed how cheap the wire was. For one thing, if you hold up
2 to 4 inches of it with an end on the end, it flops over. The wire I
usually use takes twice as long a piece to flop over.

Maybe you can recognize this stuff if you see it because it doesn't
have black, red, green, and yellow wires. It has white, green, white,
and white wires.

I didn't know it was possible to have wire this cheap!
Hi,
In my house corded phone is long gone. All cordless phones. Wireless
router for Internet, and Bluetooth here and there.

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:52:32 GMT, Tony Hwang wrote:

mm wrote:

Cheap phone cord (related to cheap extension cords)

Speaking of cheap cord, a few years ago I needed about 40 feet of
modular phone cord, and I was at a hamfest where they had 100 foot
roll of cord for less that Radio Shack sells 50. Plus it was right
there in front of me, and I wouldn't have to look any further.

So I bought it and it worked fine for a few years. I used the whole
100 feet without cutting because I thought someday I might need a 100
foot piece. But eventually it stopped, probably being I was stepping
on it a lot, and tugging on it, and once I burned it (although that
didn't keep it from working even though it had been cream colored and
now was distorted and black for 2 inches and around most of its
circumference).

And it was one of the days I was stepping on it and tugging it that it
stopped working. So I looked at the end through the clear modular
plug and it looked ok, so I cut off about 6 feet and crimped on
another modular plug, with the proper tool. But it didn't help.
Maybe it was not in those 6 feet that it broke.

I would have checked the cord, but it's hard to get a meter probe into
those little slots, and I was too lazy to get a pin from my sewing kit
and a wire with alligator clips from the basement. Eventuall I found
a modular wall box that took regular wire and one end and had two
modular jacks and used that, and found I had only made a connection
with two of the 4 wires, out of 1,2,3,4, I only got 1 and 2.

That's why it didn't work. The crimper was a cheap plastic imitation
of what the pros use, but it always worked before.

Then I noticed how cheap the wire was. For one thing, if you hold up
2 to 4 inches of it with an end on the end, it flops over. The wire I
usually use takes twice as long a piece to flop over.

Maybe you can recognize this stuff if you see it because it doesn't
have black, red, green, and yellow wires. It has white, green, white,
and white wires.

I didn't know it was possible to have wire this cheap!
Hi,
In my house corded phone is long gone. All cordless phones. Wireless
router for Internet, and Bluetooth here and there.

This was the cord from the NID to the inside of the house. Original
one isn't working.

But I like phones with cords. I know my neighbors aren't listening.

But I like phones with cords. I know my neighbors aren't listening.

me too, years ago a friend had me pick up a cordless for her, so i
plugged it in to the power line to charge it.

listened to a neighbors teenager make a drug deal on her cordless...

said to neighbor tell your daughter listened to her make drug deal with
jason, suggest corded phone for such transactions.......

he spent the next hour ranting about daughter...

mm wrote:


Then I noticed how cheap the wire was. For one thing, if you hold up
2 to 4 inches of it with an end on the end, it flops over. The wire I
usually use takes twice as long a piece to flop over.


You have far too much time on your hands. :-)

I went wireless long ago. Yea, someone might be listening in to my
calls, they to must have far too much time on their hands and I am sure my
calls are less interesting than the shopping channel. Besides if they
really want to listen in I believe with the right equipment it would not be
that difficult to listen in to your typical wired phone.


--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:30:48 -0400, mm
wrote:

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:52:32 GMT, Tony Hwang wrote:

mm wrote:

Cheap phone cord (related to cheap extension cords)

Speaking of cheap cord, a few years ago I needed about 40 feet of
modular phone cord, and I was at a hamfest where they had 100 foot
roll of cord for less that Radio Shack sells 50. Plus it was right
there in front of me, and I wouldn't have to look any further.

So I bought it and it worked fine for a few years. I used the whole
100 feet without cutting because I thought someday I might need a 100
foot piece. But eventually it stopped, probably being I was stepping
on it a lot, and tugging on it, and once I burned it (although that
didn't keep it from working even though it had been cream colored and
now was distorted and black for 2 inches and around most of its
circumference).

And it was one of the days I was stepping on it and tugging it that it
stopped working. So I looked at the end through the clear modular
plug and it looked ok, so I cut off about 6 feet and crimped on
another modular plug, with the proper tool. But it didn't help.
Maybe it was not in those 6 feet that it broke.

I would have checked the cord, but it's hard to get a meter probe into
those little slots, and I was too lazy to get a pin from my sewing kit
and a wire with alligator clips from the basement. Eventuall I found
a modular wall box that took regular wire and one end and had two
modular jacks and used that, and found I had only made a connection
with two of the 4 wires, out of 1,2,3,4, I only got 1 and 2.

That's why it didn't work. The crimper was a cheap plastic imitation
of what the pros use, but it always worked before.

Then I noticed how cheap the wire was. For one thing, if you hold up
2 to 4 inches of it with an end on the end, it flops over. The wire I
usually use takes twice as long a piece to flop over.

Maybe you can recognize this stuff if you see it because it doesn't
have black, red, green, and yellow wires. It has white, green, white,
and white wires.

I didn't know it was possible to have wire this cheap!
Hi,
In my house corded phone is long gone. All cordless phones. Wireless
router for Internet, and Bluetooth here and there.

This was the cord from the NID to the inside of the house. Original
one isn't working.

But I like phones with cords. I know my neighbors aren't listening.

And cordless phones may not work when the electricity is off. I do
have mine on a UPS (same as computer UPS), but that just works for a
few minutes, time to move to a corded phone.
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb
contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin

Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:30:48 -0400, mm
wrote:

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:52:32 GMT, Tony Hwang wrote:

mm wrote:

Cheap phone cord (related to cheap extension cords)

Speaking of cheap cord, a few years ago I needed about 40 feet of
modular phone cord, and I was at a hamfest where they had 100 foot
roll of cord for less that Radio Shack sells 50. Plus it was right
there in front of me, and I wouldn't have to look any further.

So I bought it and it worked fine for a few years. I used the whole
100 feet without cutting because I thought someday I might need a 100
foot piece. But eventually it stopped, probably being I was stepping
on it a lot, and tugging on it, and once I burned it (although that
didn't keep it from working even though it had been cream colored and
now was distorted and black for 2 inches and around most of its
circumference).

And it was one of the days I was stepping on it and tugging it that it
stopped working. So I looked at the end through the clear modular
plug and it looked ok, so I cut off about 6 feet and crimped on
another modular plug, with the proper tool. But it didn't help.
Maybe it was not in those 6 feet that it broke.

I would have checked the cord, but it's hard to get a meter probe into
those little slots, and I was too lazy to get a pin from my sewing kit
and a wire with alligator clips from the basement. Eventuall I found
a modular wall box that took regular wire and one end and had two
modular jacks and used that, and found I had only made a connection
with two of the 4 wires, out of 1,2,3,4, I only got 1 and 2.

That's why it didn't work. The crimper was a cheap plastic imitation
of what the pros use, but it always worked before.

Then I noticed how cheap the wire was. For one thing, if you hold up
2 to 4 inches of it with an end on the end, it flops over. The wire I
usually use takes twice as long a piece to flop over.

Maybe you can recognize this stuff if you see it because it doesn't
have black, red, green, and yellow wires. It has white, green, white,
and white wires.

I didn't know it was possible to have wire this cheap!
Hi,
In my house corded phone is long gone. All cordless phones. Wireless
router for Internet, and Bluetooth here and there.

This was the cord from the NID to the inside of the house. Original
one isn't working.

But I like phones with cords. I know my neighbors aren't listening.

And cordless phones may not work when the electricity is off. I do
have mine on a UPS (same as computer UPS), but that just works for a
few minutes, time to move to a corded phone.
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb
contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin

Friend of mine learned when young not to be on the phone during
lightning storm, still goes by that rule. But has had only cordless
phones for a few years now.

"mm" wrote in message
...
Cheap phone cord (related to cheap extension cords)

Speaking of cheap cord, a few years ago I needed about 40 feet of
modular phone cord, and I was at a hamfest where they had 100 foot
roll of cord for less that Radio Shack sells 50. Plus it was right
there in front of me, and I wouldn't have to look any further.

So I bought it and it worked fine for a few years. I used the whole
100 feet without cutting because I thought someday I might need a 100
foot piece. But eventually it stopped, probably being I was stepping
on it a lot, and tugging on it, and once I burned it (although that
didn't keep it from working even though it had been cream colored and
now was distorted and black for 2 inches and around most of its
circumference).

And it was one of the days I was stepping on it and tugging it that it
stopped working. So I looked at the end through the clear modular
plug and it looked ok, so I cut off about 6 feet and crimped on
another modular plug, with the proper tool. But it didn't help.
Maybe it was not in those 6 feet that it broke.

I would have checked the cord, but it's hard to get a meter probe into
those little slots, and I was too lazy to get a pin from my sewing kit
and a wire with alligator clips from the basement. Eventuall I found
a modular wall box that took regular wire and one end and had two
modular jacks and used that, and found I had only made a connection
with two of the 4 wires, out of 1,2,3,4, I only got 1 and 2.

That's why it didn't work. The crimper was a cheap plastic imitation
of what the pros use, but it always worked before.

Then I noticed how cheap the wire was. For one thing, if you hold up
2 to 4 inches of it with an end on the end, it flops over. The wire I
usually use takes twice as long a piece to flop over.

Maybe you can recognize this stuff if you see it because it doesn't
have black, red, green, and yellow wires. It has white, green, white,
and white wires.

I didn't know it was possible to have wire this cheap!

How the wire bends doesn't mean it's cheap. It could mean it's
stranded. It could mean it's a smaller wire size. Obviously,
the wire you got was different. Not necessarily cheap.

Bob

On 4 Aug 2006 04:06:30 -0700, "
wrote:


But I like phones with cords. I know my neighbors aren't listening.

me too, years ago a friend had me pick up a cordless for her, so i
plugged it in to the power line to charge it.

listened to a neighbors teenager make a drug deal on her cordless...

This reminds me of a news story I saw. One house had a cordless
phone, but the other only had a baby monitor. The ones with the baby
monitor heard the wife next door planning with her boyfriend to murder
her husband. They got the police to stop her before she did it!

said to neighbor tell your daughter listened to her make drug deal with
jason, suggest corded phone for such transactions.......

he spent the next hour ranting about daughter...


--------
How the wire bends doesn't mean it's cheap. It could mean it's
stranded. It could mean it's a smaller wire size. Obviously,
the wire you got was different. Not necessarily cheap.

You have a good point, but I've never see wire so floppy before, nor
so cheap. Mostly I was trying to warn people before they bought it.
I hope no innocent wire will suffer.

Bob

mm posted for all of us...
I don't top post - see either inline or at bottom.



But I like phones with cords. I know my neighbors aren't listening.

Also nicer when the power goes out so one can call the electric co.
--
Tekkie

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 20:39:57 -0400, Tekkie® wrote:

mm posted for all of us...
I don't top post - see either inline or at bottom.



But I like phones with cords. I know my neighbors aren't listening.

Also nicer when the power goes out so one can call the electric co.

Definitely.

I forgot to say that cordless phones are good for talking during a
lightning storm, or when one is in the bathtub.

Didn't someone in this thread, or another, say they had a bad
experience with a corded phone during a storm? I don't know that the
risk of a corded phone is that great, but with a cordless it is zero
in the bathtub, and I think it is zero during a storm.

Oh pshaw, on Thu 03 Aug 2006 08:52:32p, Tony Hwang meant to say...

Hi,
In my house corded phone is long gone. All cordless phones. Wireless
router for Internet, and Bluetooth here and there.


Then when you have a power outage but not a phone service outage, the phones
still won't work. It's not a bad idea to have at least 1 corded phone if you
consider having a phone critical at all times.

--
Wayne Boatwright
__________________________________________________

ERROR 103: Dead mouse in hard drive.

In article ,
"Joseph Meehan" wrote:

I went wireless long ago. Yea, someone might be listening in to my
calls, they to must have far too much time on their hands and I am sure my
calls are less interesting than the shopping channel.

Cordless telephony is JOB SECURITY for me and my coworkers. So much so, in
fact, that the repair service attendants ASK if the caller is using one.

Everyone should have at least one CORDED phone to use in the event of a
electrical outage as they are "line powered" - powered from the telco
equipment. Also, they provide a convenient means to test at the NID (Network
Interface Device), if present.

Besides if they really want to listen in I believe with
the right equipment it would not be that difficult to listen
in to your typical wired phone.

You might be surprised at how difficult TAPPING a phone line is. Unless done
at the side of the house or, at most, the terminal serving that premise, the
tapper would have to have significant technical expertise AND the company line
records revealing the cable assignments: Finding a single pair in a 900-pair,
ready-access splice isn't easy. Finding the exact binding post/position in a
SAC (cross-connect) box that has 2700 positions, without proper assignments,
would be nearly impossible.

A LEGAL tap is totally different. While it used to be placed close to the
target, it isn't any more. Technology has enabled a LEGAL tapper to stay at
his/her desk back at headquarters.

Interesting fact: The U.S. Supreme Court has held that cordless telephony is
NOT private, but cellular telephony IS. Go figure.
--

JR

Jim Redelfs wrote:
In article ,
"Joseph Meehan" wrote:

I went wireless long ago. Yea, someone might be listening in to my
calls, they to must have far too much time on their hands and I am
sure my calls are less interesting than the shopping channel.

Cordless telephony is JOB SECURITY for me and my coworkers. So much
so, in fact, that the repair service attendants ASK if the caller is
using one.

Everyone should have at least one CORDED phone to use in the event of
a electrical outage as they are "line powered" - powered from the
telco equipment.

Or a cell phone. Frankly my home phone service is now via cable. I
don't even have the capability for line power.

Also, they provide a convenient means to test at
the NID (Network Interface Device), if present.

Besides if they really want to listen in I believe with
the right equipment it would not be that difficult to listen
in to your typical wired phone.

You might be surprised at how difficult TAPPING a phone line is.
Unless done at the side of the house or, at most, the terminal
serving that premise, the tapper would have to have significant
technical expertise AND the company line records revealing the cable
assignments: Finding a single pair in a 900-pair, ready-access
splice isn't easy. Finding the exact binding post/position in a SAC
(cross-connect) box that has 2700 positions, without proper
assignments, would be nearly impossible.

A LEGAL tap is totally different. While it used to be placed close
to the target, it isn't any more. Technology has enabled a LEGAL
tapper to stay at his/her desk back at headquarters.

Interesting fact: The U.S. Supreme Court has held that cordless
telephony is NOT private, but cellular telephony IS. Go figure.



--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

On 5 Aug 2006 16:21:35 +0200, Wayne Boatwright
wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com wrote:

Oh pshaw, on Thu 03 Aug 2006 08:52:32p, Tony Hwang meant to say...

Hi,
In my house corded phone is long gone. All cordless phones. Wireless
router for Internet, and Bluetooth here and there.


Then when you have a power outage but not a phone service outage, the phones
still won't work. It's not a bad idea to have at least 1 corded phone if you
consider having a phone critical at all times.

True. Also corded phones are a lot simpler (and so less likely to
fail). If your cordless isn't working, you can use the corded phone to
help locate the trouble.
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb
contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin

Yep, the reason it's twice the price at the shack, is if you go back there
with the faulty product, they are responsible.

False economy on things your life might depend one day, are often more
dangerous than they seem...

Cordless phones are just the same kind of convenience. What happens when
your battery is flat, or the power's out??? Then again, what about the RF
energy that's warming your head?

Cords all the way - start the revolution!!!

"mm" wrote in message
...
Cheap phone cord (related to cheap extension cords)

Speaking of cheap cord, a few years ago I needed about 40 feet of
modular phone cord, and I was at a hamfest where they had 100 foot
roll of cord for less that Radio Shack sells 50. Plus it was right
there in front of me, and I wouldn't have to look any further.

So I bought it and it worked fine for a few years. I used the whole
100 feet without cutting because I thought someday I might need a 100
foot piece. But eventually it stopped, probably being I was stepping
on it a lot, and tugging on it, and once I burned it (although that
didn't keep it from working even though it had been cream colored and
now was distorted and black for 2 inches and around most of its
circumference).

And it was one of the days I was stepping on it and tugging it that it
stopped working. So I looked at the end through the clear modular
plug and it looked ok, so I cut off about 6 feet and crimped on
another modular plug, with the proper tool. But it didn't help.
Maybe it was not in those 6 feet that it broke.

I would have checked the cord, but it's hard to get a meter probe into
those little slots, and I was too lazy to get a pin from my sewing kit
and a wire with alligator clips from the basement. Eventuall I found
a modular wall box that took regular wire and one end and had two
modular jacks and used that, and found I had only made a connection
with two of the 4 wires, out of 1,2,3,4, I only got 1 and 2.

That's why it didn't work. The crimper was a cheap plastic imitation
of what the pros use, but it always worked before.

Then I noticed how cheap the wire was. For one thing, if you hold up
2 to 4 inches of it with an end on the end, it flops over. The wire I
usually use takes twice as long a piece to flop over.

Maybe you can recognize this stuff if you see it because it doesn't
have black, red, green, and yellow wires. It has white, green, white,
and white wires.

I didn't know it was possible to have wire this cheap!

On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 10:31:46 +1000, "glenn P"
wrote:

Yep, the reason it's twice the price at the shack, is if you go back there
with the faulty product, they are responsible.

False economy on things your life might depend one day, are often more
dangerous than they seem...

Cordless phones are just the same kind of convenience. What happens when
your battery is flat, or the power's out??? Then again, what about the RF
energy that's warming your head?


Less if you use a headset.

Cords all the way - start the revolution!!!


Some people like to (or at least be ABLE TO) walk around while
talking.

"mm" wrote in message
.. .
Cheap phone cord (related to cheap extension cords)

Speaking of cheap cord, a few years ago I needed about 40 feet of
modular phone cord, and I was at a hamfest where they had 100 foot
roll of cord for less that Radio Shack sells 50. Plus it was right
there in front of me, and I wouldn't have to look any further.

So I bought it and it worked fine for a few years. I used the whole
100 feet without cutting because I thought someday I might need a 100
foot piece. But eventually it stopped, probably being I was stepping
on it a lot, and tugging on it, and once I burned it (although that
didn't keep it from working even though it had been cream colored and
now was distorted and black for 2 inches and around most of its
circumference).

And it was one of the days I was stepping on it and tugging it that it
stopped working. So I looked at the end through the clear modular
plug and it looked ok, so I cut off about 6 feet and crimped on
another modular plug, with the proper tool. But it didn't help.
Maybe it was not in those 6 feet that it broke.

I would have checked the cord, but it's hard to get a meter probe into
those little slots, and I was too lazy to get a pin from my sewing kit
and a wire with alligator clips from the basement. Eventuall I found
a modular wall box that took regular wire and one end and had two
modular jacks and used that, and found I had only made a connection
with two of the 4 wires, out of 1,2,3,4, I only got 1 and 2.

That's why it didn't work. The crimper was a cheap plastic imitation
of what the pros use, but it always worked before.

Then I noticed how cheap the wire was. For one thing, if you hold up
2 to 4 inches of it with an end on the end, it flops over. The wire I
usually use takes twice as long a piece to flop over.

Maybe you can recognize this stuff if you see it because it doesn't
have black, red, green, and yellow wires. It has white, green, white,
and white wires.

I didn't know it was possible to have wire this cheap!

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb
contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin

"Jim Redelfs" wrote in message news:jim.redelfs-
Interesting fact: The U.S. Supreme Court has held that cordless telephony is
NOT private, but cellular telephony IS. Go figure.

Tell congressman Jim McDermott that.

Bob

"Mark Lloyd" wrote in message
...

Cordless phones are just the same kind of convenience. What happens when
your battery is flat, or the power's out??? Then again, what about the RF
energy that's warming your head?


Less if you use a headset.

I've read one study that contradicted that.

Bob

In article ,
"Bob" wrote:

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that cordless telephony
is NOT private, but cellular telephony IS. Go figure.

Tell congressman Jim McDermott that.

Yeah, and Mr. Newt, too.
--
sigh
JR
--

JR

"mm" wrote in message
...
Cheap phone cord (related to cheap extension cords)

Speaking of cheap cord, a few years ago I needed about 40 feet of
modular phone cord, and I was at a hamfest where they had 100 foot
roll of cord for less that Radio Shack sells 50. Plus it was right
there in front of me, and I wouldn't have to look any further.

So I bought it and it worked fine for a few years. I used the whole
100 feet without cutting because I thought someday I might need a 100
foot piece.

Just junk it and run by a "Dollar Store" or a Family Dollar or such other
such store that sells cheap Chinese junk.

I still go to Rat Shack for solid conductor stuff for inside the walls but
for modular "patches" (including splitters, butt connectors, etc) you basic
$dollar store outlet will fix your up.

Those cords aren't worth the cost of the modular connector end to fix.