Riddle me this: My phone is down. My DSL works.

I go from having no dial tone, to high-noise dial tone, to echo-noise dial tone, to no dial tone. All phones, whole house. I called repair service (local phone company) and left a message on the recorder. Then I came up to the loft and found that the DSL was fine. The DSL has worked through all iterations of the dial tone problem.

Anyway, it's kind of scary in the wilds without phone. The cell phone does work out on the deck in most situations. When the phones go down, I do an immediate ham radio communications check on one of the excellent 2-meter mountain repeaters. I hit Greenville, Asheville, and Anderson on first calls. Peace of mind, at least. Those radios, BTW, are independent of all external power, even the emergency generator system. Two 12-volt marine batteries power the emergency bus in the ham shack.

curious.

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your telephone is on a different channel. Also, different "servers" handle your phone than your dsl.

ground was a feed to the apartment complex lawn care system. But in fact it was the telephone cables into the complex. The good news is when they started cutting it, no water came out and all they could see were a lot of cut wires :dunce:

In my case, I lost my phone but like you the DSL still worked. Do not know how that was other than there is four wires going out of the house and the phone is on two and maybe the DSL is on the other two.

ADSL rides on the same copper pair as your dial tone-they call this line-sharing. The DSL equipment and the telephone equipment are joined together in the central office and separated at the end user. If the dial tone circuitry is failing that will have no effect on the DSL. Hope this helps - it's not really magic.

Good info.

Electronic Swicthing System Number one through five. The Central Office works through a PC somwhere.

They've been "wormed" and you haven't.

And I'm also the proud owmer of an Icom R-71 SW Reciever for these "just-in-case" situations where the FCC and others don't report "factual data."

I've got a IC-756PRO driving an IC-PW-1 1000 watt amplifier. In other words, I am rigged for shark or bear. But 90% of the time I run 5 watts on 10-meter and 20-meter PSK-31.

But when I need to put fire-in-the-wire I use my 220 VAC-powered Icom PW-1 to roast the birds.

to pay the phone bill we have still have dsl. once we "forgot" for over a month and still had dsl..we finally "remembered" to pay...thank god for cell phones....