Phone Fault Returns

We don't get a lot of incoming calls to our landline but we did get a couple yesterday. After receiving the calls we noticed the internet started to play up and the router indicated a phone was left off the hook again. Plugs were pulled out, routers were re started and eventually we got it all back together and going again.

It seems the landline phone (and we have two of those) do not record when they have been hung up. If you hang up and then pick up again, you get an engaged signal.

We tried several tests and each time the fault was replicated. However when you answer the two phones connected to the Voip system (and this system picks up regular incoming Telstra calls as well) everything works fine. The voip system has a 'base phone' near the PC and a second cordless phone in the lounge room.

I contacted Telstra Faults again this morning and even then the call to them dropped out while lodging the fault. To get the wall phone phone to 'hang up' I had to disconnect the phone from the wall plug and then replug it in! Eventually the fault was recorded and it seems we have to wait until Thursday of next week to have it attended to. The internet works 'fairly well' and with the voip phones still working we can still receive our incoming calls.

We aren't too badly disadvantaged, as the system as it stands right now without the regular phones connected works 99% of the time. If the internet does drop out, it seems to reconnect again soon afterwards.

Early morning showers means I don't get to have my bike ride this morning. Trish has Quilters this morning and then we have drinks later on this afternoon. Again tonight we have the T/20 cricket matches on again.