how to keep a phone line busy?

Question

I have a hunt group with 7 lines for a business. The third line has bad static and is unusable. If I disconnect the line, the hunt group ends there. That essentially brings the system down to 2 lines, which is simply not enough. Is there any way to keep the third line busy for a long time so that the hunt group "skips" over it? At least until the phone company can fix the line itself.

OK the line is actually connected to a Dialogic board on a custom computer I designed. As a temporary solution I connected a phone to the bad line and called a friend's unused number and left both phones off the hook. The phone company should be out shortly

Answer 1

Call the phone company back and ask them to put the bad line on 'make busy'. They'll do it for you.

Polly

Answer 2

Call the phone company and have them remove it from the hunt Group or have them busy out the line so it skips over completely.

If you have an analog system (POTS) You could twist both wires together creating a short in the line which would cause it to busy out. Although I do not recommend this, its a short term solution if the business office is closed at the phone company.

Answer 3

Call it from line 7 and keep both phones busy. You will then have 5 left. If you just keep a single phone off hook it may put the higher ones out of service after a period of time. You would have to try and see. I know it goes from a dial tone to a loud tone and then goes dead.

Answer 4

Put a standard single-line phone on that line and leave it off-hook.  If you don't have an RJ-11 jack for that individual line at the phone panel, you can connect one with just the two center wires on the punchdown block.  Shorting the line with alligator clips is crude, but will also work.

Answer 5

Takeing the phone off hook should work unless you have multiline phones, the PBX may recognize that it hasn't recieved any digits and reset the phone. If you have an option on your phone like a make set busy key that should do it. Another suggestion is to replace the handset cord they tend to go bad and cause alot of static that and your line cord.

Handset cord - The curley cord that runs from the phone to the handset.

Line cord - The cord that runs from the phones to the wall jack.

I have ran into plenty of customers that dont know the difference.

Answer 6

Try opening up that line and leaving it off the hook. Or can you just forward that line to another line...Try those...good luck

c

Answer 7

Had that issue in the previous, seems such as you have a cordless telephone genuine? try un-plugging then potential and the opening and plugging them back in. Mine in many situations does that once I forget to fee it and it dies. try it somewhat is going to artwork. If no longer, you may ought to call the telephone employer.

Answer 8

keep your phone off the hook so it returns a busy dialtone whenever sum1 tries ringing it..i *think* this will work!

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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