Holy fuck I did it! A neighbor helped me and all it seems to be was simply like a corroded battery cable, simply cleaned up the connections on the box outside kept swapping out the wire AND I AM BACK UP!

I love it when a plan comes together.

Oh, by the way, make sure you check for corrosion on the terminals.

(May 20, 2016 at 12:12 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Moral of the story: You can't pay anyone, anymore, for the kind of quality work you'd do yourself on your own home.

The anti-moral of the story: Anyone you can afford to pay will do the same kind of shittastic craptacular work you'd do yourself on your own home.

not so fast, the phone is consistently staying on now, but I still think the line needs to be replaced, or hopefully I just need to swap out my modem and phone cord itself because my DSL died on me briefly, and it uses the phone line and the modem has a phone jack you have to have plugged in. But as I said the phone itself is consistently working now. But I do know what to do now.

(May 20, 2016 at 2:24 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Holy fuck I did it! A neighbor helped me and all it seems to be was simply like a corroded battery cable, simply cleaned up the connections on the box outside kept swapping out the wire AND I AM BACK UP!

Remember the butterfly effect


The phone will ring louder now, it might startle you when your on the stairs and you might trip and impale yourself on the vacuum cleaner, bleed out and die

(May 20, 2016 at 2:28 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I love it when a plan comes together.

Oh, by the way, make sure you check for corrosion on the terminals.  

You love it when a plan comes together.

I wanted to post the version of the A-Team opening which had Face Man being passed by a Cylon as an inside joke because Dirk Benedict was an actor on Battlestar Galactica. The writers of the A Team put the Cylon in in the opening as an inside joke, but I can find that version on Youtube. This is the one I did find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1HMCArgqWM

(May 20, 2016 at 2:49 pm)Brian37 Wrote: not so fast, the phone is consistently staying on now, but I still think the line needs to be replaced, or hopefully I just need to swap out my modem and phone cord itself because my DSL died on me briefly, and it uses the phone line and the modem has a phone jack you have to have plugged in. But as I said the phone itself is consistently working now. But I do know what to do now.

DSL depends on a quality copper line to operate properly. If there is too much noise on the line, your DSL modem will fail to connect. So a corroded or degraded line can result in intermittent performance of your DSL. The best solution is to run a CAT5 cable in place of the phone company's default copper pair. Failing that, make sure the copper line is intact and not subject to corroded terminals, and that your modem is on the line with the shortest run to the junction box. If you're using a splitter coming off the jack or out of the modem itself, long or otherwise noisy runs from that point can introduce noise into the line also resulting in poor performance. Shorten any such extension lines or replace them with a twisted pair cable.

I just looked up the CATS cable. I don't see how you split that, it looks exactly like DSL cable and frankly like a phone cord on steroids where you attach the headset to the base. My outside box where it goes from the outside, has two tiny power source wires attached to the same bolt, where you attach the green and red or yellow and black wires going into the house which you also attach to those bolts.

I do understand old wires and copper, and crimping them, the newer and shinier and less bent the wire is the better. Put together some stereo components in my teens.