Whenever my parents plug a landline phone in, we hear static. It happens to the cordless phones too. It's this loud, constant sound. We tried to call my cell phone, but the call didn't go through. We tried other landline phones we have, and those have static too. We contacted our phone company, at&t, and they said they couldn't detect any problems and to unplug the phones for 10 minutes. Well, that didn't work, and they're not being helpful at all. It can't be the result of a thunderstorm because it started a week ago and it's been extremely dry, except for today... Is someone tapping into our phone line or something? We replaced the battery in the cordless phone and that didn't work.
2007-09-09 09:35:59 · 4 answers · asked by Rick 4 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Land Phones
Oh, we have DSL internet from at&t if that matters and my wireless internet connection to my laptop keeps going on and off!
2007-09-09 09:38:19 · update #1
I believe the DSL is the issue. When you signed up you should have been given some DSL filters that plug in between the wall jack and the phone plug. They filter out the static you describe.
If you've already got them installed and still getting the static and interruption with the DSL, call AT&T again and ask them to send out a tech and have him listen to the static personally. Or maybe you can record the static and play it back for the customer support person when he says your phone line is OK, and then ask, "Does this sound like an OK line" and then play the static.
2007-09-10 05:07:40 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle Pennybags 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A landline maximum genuinely could have statis, and a lot of it! for many motives there could be an issue with the line. some in straight forward terms have static while it rains... (returned an issue with the line). at cases, the telephone organization needs to return out and run a clean line by way of fact of a few (many motives) form of injury to the line itself, which does, certainly, produce static
2016-10-18 11:18:46 · answer #2 · answered by starcher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have DSL and with anything on the internet if your running through the phone you have to put filters on the phones.that will stop the static.you should have gotten the filters with your modem .first you put a 2 in 1 adapter plug in the wall.then you plug in the filter in one side of it.the phone gets plugged into it.the other you plug the modem into.then from your modem you plug in your ethernet cable(yellow cable) and your power cord. when you run internet service to a phone you must have filters or you will get static. you can pick them up at radio shack. any other problems e-mail me at yahoo messenger at scharf_susan@yahoo.com
2007-09-09 15:21:45 · answer #3 · answered by scharf_susan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you didn't use all the ADSL filters on all your phone lines when installing ADSL. That would explain all your symptoms. You need to put a filter on every phone line you have that is not connected to your computer.
2007-09-09 12:24:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋