Replacing phone wall jack

[Angrboda]

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.