The Goat Pen

You have a wired phone line in your house? Jesus Christ you live in the dark ages.

The MIF does have a large painting in the front room of some grim pilgrims standing on a rock and it looks like their ship has sank in the background. Even the dog in the picture looks depressed. I feel like I'm in that picture every time the phone rings...

do you have DSL or cable modem?

If its DSL, I know why that happens

"You have a wired phone line in your house? Jesus Christ you live in the dark ages."

It's worse than that. The MIF likes "old" stuff, so we've got 3 rotary phones in the house. I don't mean 1970's versions, I'm talking 1930's. I asked her why don't you just get the ones that you have to hold the stob to your ear and talk into a horn?

Cable modem I'm pretty sure, but it seems like the phone signal comes in thru an old timey looking phone line (maybe that's DSL)...

She'd have a damn morse code machine if she thought she could actually communicate with anybody on it...

mine use to do that when I had DSL

if you have DSL
you have 4 wires in a typical phone line. The DSL line uses 2 and the regular phone line uses 2 - I'm not sure of which color combinations. Typically its Red, Black, Yellow , Green.

Anyways all the phone lines are supposed to use one set of colors and the DSL the other but somewhere you have them crossed, so everytime the phone rings it temporarily disconnects your internet.

Putting those DSL phone filters on each line might fix it...if you have DSL instead of Cable.

If you have cable, you're fucked

unplug all but one phone, have the mif call the house and check the internet when the phone rings. If it doesn't drop, check another , and continue until you find the phone.

if the drops on the first phone you check, it may be you got lucky or its a bigger issue. Check the second phone and see if it drops with that phone (by itself ) too. If so then its your wiring in your house and you need to get a DSL splitter at the phone jack to fix the problem.

I'd rather hire a skinny mexican to crawl under the house. Not that that addresses this situation in any way, but that's still what I'd rather do...

I'd run hard lines in a faraday cage

make sure the cage has the right size wire mesh to block all outside interfering frequencies

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Damn! That'll draw your dick string up.

NO THANK YOU

I had to stop watching that shit

That looks fun.

still not the most difficult job on the planet :

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Bill is the fucking man. That special still has not gotten old to me.

Ok, just got my first Verizon bill since my new share everything family plan. I was trying to go completely Verizon with phones and Internet. Problem is Internet usage. They do not have an unlimited data plan anymore. We seem to go way over the 4GB which adds charges. I'm pretty sure my wife's and mine iPhone data usage fits under the 4Gigs, but the everyday Internet use of kids and downloading Netflix, etc runs it up. I am thinking of having house computers put back on an unlimited land line plan. What is the cheapest unlimited Internet plan I can get without having a phone plan tied to it?

Verizon has fucked me with my daughters new data plan. im looking at T-mobile

eCat wrote:go to monoprice.com and get you a 50 or 100ft cat5 ethernet cable,

http://www.monoprice.com/products/produ ... 1&format=2

plug it into the belkin router you have in the 1-4 ports and run it to the front of the house and plug it into a cheap router you buy

http://www.monoprice.com/products/produ ... 1&format=2

and follow the directions on how to set it up as either a bridge or a wireless ISP

plaster walls kill WIFI signals.

my house has mostly plaster walls and I can get a signal from one corner of the upstairs to the back of the downstairs.

What's my point?

Hedge is an idiot.

Hahaha.