Phone line / modem connection problem

[Skot]

For some reason, I connect at 28.8 almost every time I dial in to the net. I have to make several attempts to connect at 52.0. I can tell that it's going to connect at 28.8 when, after the second "dong, dong", it doesn't finish--it does another "dong, dong", then it'll connect...at 28.8.

Anyway, when I lived next door (I live in an apartment complex), I connected at 52.0 EVERY time. When I bring my computer to my roommate's room, I connect at 52.0 every time. The wierd thing is, my roomate's line is comming off of mine! The way the phones SEEM to be setup is the main line comes in downstairs, another phone wire is twisted in with the main, that phone wire comes up to me, yet another phone wire is twisted in with mine, and that goes to my roommate's room. I just changed my phone jack, and I'm still having the same problems.

Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts as to what the heck is going on?

 

[Pederv]

Did you scrape the oxides off of the wires before attaching them to your new wall jack?

 

[Skot]

There didn't seem to be any. And if there were excessive oxidation on the wires, that should affect my roomate's jack too, since his is coming directly off of mine. Wouldn't you think?

 

[Pederv]

Depends on if they just stripped the insulation off of the wires to connect your outlet, but left the wires intact. Are these phone jacks on the same line or different (same phone number or different phone numbers)? MANY-many moons ago I paid GTE $50 to come tell me that the problem with my phone line was a coroded phone jack in the bathroom, so check your other outlets. Disconnect them or wire around them and see if you can find a bad phone jack.

 

[Skot]

The phone jacks are off the same physical line (and same phone number).

 

[Drekce]

You need one of these. That should make it work fine.





















Well, actually problobly not.