You can always do like ATT does it around here. They just run a new
cable and let it lay on the ground.
bp
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On 6/5/2024 7:44 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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.
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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.
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Ken Hohhof <mailto:khoh...@kwom.com>
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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