ADSL can work with one leg disconnected
I have 384kb DSL at home with 2 telephone points. Both telephones are cordless and have the filters in place.
Funny thing is when I pick up the phone I don't get a dialtone and when I call my home number from my cell it sounds like the phone is off the hook.
All looks OK and Telskum will take 15 days to resolve.
Any help would be appreciated.
Yeah disconnect eveything even ADSL router, double check all over the house, get another normal phone and plug this up directly without filter, if still not working, Telkom must fix it.
PLEASE note that ADSL can work with one leg dis, seen this many times, the one leg of the twisted wire is disconnected your phone will die, but ADSL will carry on, wierd. Check your ADSL connection in your actual router, are there errors, does it keep dropping, usually one leg dis will degarde the ADSL performnce. Also what could have happened is the jumper is pulled from the DSLAM to the actual phone port, ADSL will still work, but not phone, they will simply just need to re-connect this.
I have had the same problem on my normal line and phoned and reported the fault 3 times. Then all of a sudden I get a dial tone and telkom phones and asks if line Ok. Things fixed without Telkom coming out. So Your guess is as good as mine. I have the same phones as you
What happens sometimes is that the jumper is pulled off accidently or mixed up with another job and they pull the jumper, in the exchange you get a massive frame called the MDF with thousands of lines coming in, the MDF guy or external tech simply comes in, re-connects, phones you and there you go, we use to love these flts, we would book an hour on this for a 5min job brilliant, then drag our selfs off to fix a pole feed flt that really sucks.
