Verizon problems

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Thanks for your insight

I have Verizon high-speed internet. Not FIOS, so I guess I do have DSL.

Yes the problem is with Verizon lines. I don't have a box outside, I have a line that comes into the house and connects to 2 4" long resistors (I think they are). I disconnected the incoming line and hooked up 2 different AT&T pushbutton corded phones to it. One crackled slightly, one was dead. No dialtone, no lights on the phones.

Last year had the same problem. Lineman said it was the pair on the phone pole around the corner, about 3/4 of a mile I'd guess.

So something is wrong with these old 1935 copper phone lines on the poles, or the connections.

One last test I could try is to hookup the phone to the isolated incoming wire, and call it with my cell. That's a test I haven't tried yet.