Re: [AFMUG] troubleshooting telco pairs

[Daniel White]

Can you just eliminate the wire and do a wireless PtP between the two locations?  Even if you find the issue with the wire, if it is that convoluted, it sounds like an ongoing problem potentially. Daniel White Co-Founder phone: +1 (702) 470-2770 direct: +1 (702) 470-2766 Ken Hohhof June 5, 2024 at 1:24 AM Anybody remember your POTS troubleshooting skills?   I’m trying to get an alarm system to work from a VoIP ATA over about 1000 feet of convoluted wiring at a farm, a combination of overhead and buried.  I get tone on my tone tracer (Tempo brand) but 0 VDC on a buttset or voltmeter.  It’s too far for my Fluke cable tester which is meant for data cables.   I suspect one wire in the pair is open, but I don’t know how to check this with just a tone tracer.   The alarm system just calls and plays a recorded voice announcement, so the VoIP part shouldn’t be tricky at all, not like FAX machines or alarms that use modems.  But it can’t even seize the line and call out.

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