Thursday, January 22, 2009

Alive!

After switching to FIOS for everything communicative our phone lines went down. Wasn't sure why, I swapped out the old phone line and jack and replaced it with new CAT-5. Still dead. Went out to the ONT box where the fiber optics plugs into the house. The CAT-5 had come loose from it's connecting port in the ONT. Closed the latch (which crimped the CAT-5 wires and completed the connection. 10 minutes later during dinner, Sir Francis Drake called. The phones were fixed.