Oddly, the customer’s IT guy does have Ethernet connectivity to the barns via wireless bridges. But they want their barn controllers to also dial a list of phone numbers using the FAX line in the office.
Either I’m doing something stupid, or the wire’s broken in which case it wasn’t working over the POTS line either. Farms can be very old school. Don’t want eFAX. Don’t want voicemail sent to email, they still use *97. Don’t want IVRs or autoattendants or dial by name directory. Don’t want computer-phone integration or softphones. And yet the owner’s son drives a Tesla. If it’s really a broken wire, then it’s their problem to get it fixed, I just usually start from the assumption that it was working when I got there and I’m doing something stupid. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Daniel White Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 9:27 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] troubleshooting telco pairs 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. <https://atheral.com/> Daniel White Co-Founder phone: +1 (702) 470-2770 direct: +1 (702) 470-2766 <mailto:khoh...@kwom.com> 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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