RE: Problems with CAT5 patched phones being quiet

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gareth,

(I'll leave the cattle prod to one side for the minute...)

What if you go directly into the master socket from BT with a phone ?
(i.e. take all of the patched wiring out of the equation - if I
understand what you've said below, that's what you've done) Is it ok now
?
Although re-reading, you don't have a "master socket" then a
"master
adaptor" in series do you ? AFAIK you only need one "master"
per line,
all the rest should be secondary sockets / adaptors after that.

If that's ok, are *all* the patched sockets quiet, or just a couple ?
Has it always been like this (i.e. quiet) or have things changed
recently ?
What if you plug a "remote" phone into the master socket, is all
ok then
?
What are you using to convert between the RJ45 socket and BT plug on the
phone ? Could it be a dodgy adaptor ?
Have you tried using a normal dial-up modem to call out ?
Do the phones all ring ok on an incoming call ?
How many phone-devices do you have connected ?

No bright ideas, just long-ish list of questions ;-)

Cheers,

Tim H.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gareth Cook  Sent: 11 November 2004 16:21
>
> Got a weird problem - Im getting feedback on the line and
> being very quiet  with my phone system now being on CAT5.
>
> Now, I've remove everything on the line so the DECT base
> station is the only thing there. And thats plugged into a
> RJ45<>BT block (master type).
>
> All the wiring is connected to a proper ADSL faceplated NTE5
> - and the line is connected to the filtered side.
>
> Any bright ideas ??
>
> G.

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