Yesterday I experienced some problems with my telephone system. When calling someone I could hear him answering the phone with his last name awaiting a response from the person disturbing the peace of his life. Unfortunately when I introduced myself to the person I was calling, he could not hear me. After testing from a number of different phones and extensions throughout my house I finally realized that the problem had to be burried deeper somewhere inside one part of my various telephone equipment. So I spent the rest of the day and almost one third of the night unraveling and triaging the most part of that equipment until I finally found the problem. It was a loose contact somewhere in the main house line connecting my telephone system with the rest of the world and our local telephone service provider respectively.
After getting everything back to work again I found myself in the total mess in which I had left my telephone system, ISDN-NTBA, ADSL-splitter, etc. about four years ago when I worked on it the last time. So I thought I could as well get myself a hoover and some cabel tie and clean everything up a bit. My “spring-cleaning” ended up with downloading drilling jigs for the various devices and getting everything mounted and tied up right at the back of my desk. Now everything looks like a charm.
Also, you never know what you will find when you search old packaging material for user and installation manuals of your telephone system. I discovered an old Western Digital Caviar 35100 IDE hard drive seizing roughly 51.6 GB. I wonder if it still works…
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