| The line has become very noisy, what should I do? Any time we pick up the phone it sounds like it is raining/frying something. It used to sound very good.
Also for some reason when we make international calls the phone just stays silent until someone picks up on the other side, no ringing. |
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 p110011I've seen enough Nobama
join:2001-12-29
Oregon City, OR | You may have a little dust built up in a connector, pull the phone line out and blow it out. |
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 NetFixerFreedom is NOT freePremium
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said by david13579:Any time we pick up the phone it sounds like it is raining/frying something. It used to sound very good.
I have to agree with p110011  , it sounds like a mechanical connection problem somewhere (and the rj-11 connectors are very susceptible to electrical problems). If blowing the dust off the plugs (and the jacks in the Vonage adapter and the phone(s)) does not help, try lightly spraying the gold pins on the rj-11 plugs with silicon oil and re-seat them in the jacks several times to get a good wiping action. You may also need to go to a store that sells telephone accessories and buy an rj-11 crimping tool (an inexpensive one for a couple of bucks will work just fine for occasional home use) and re-crimp (or replace) the rj-11 plugs (it is very easy to do, and I have seen just a simple re-crimping fix noise and intermittent disconnect problems many times).
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Sounds to me like something got wet. Heard that type of sound a few times in 40 years. The pins in a jack will look discolored, maybe black or green. The plug on the end of the line cord may also be discolored. The only way to clean a rj-11 jack is with a flat blade screwdriver that is the width of the pins. Scrape them a bit. Then take a paperclip, bend one end to the width of the pins. place behind the pins and pull them up a small amount. Contact cleaner may or may not work. Don't use anything that will leave something behind.
The international call thing is something you or Vonage can't do anything about. It's something at the distant end. |
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| It's every single international call ( well to the Dominican Republic, I can't tell about other places) regardless of # |
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