Another wall jack question
SteveInWA:
It sounds to me as if the whole "is the wall jack safe" discussion is a red herring. Land line telephone service that might have been connected to your house's telephone wiring would have come from one of the following sources:
Traditional telephone service from a telephone company, carried over copper wires from a pole or underground cable. This service MUST, by code, terminate in a demarcation block or box outside or in some area near outside, like a garage, etc. It must be accessable to the customer, and it is easy to unplug the customer premises wiring from the telco (it's obvious, visually). You don't have one of these, so POTS service was never run to your house...the house wiring is safe. Or, Some form of digital phone service. It can be a VoIP adapter built into a Cable TV company demarc box, which would have telephone wire running out if it, into your house wiring, or you'd have a combination cable TV/internet/telephone modem/router/VoIP adapter in your house, with a RJ-11 telephone jack and a cord plugged into it. You don't have one of these, so your wiring is safe.Some third-party VoIP service (Vonage, other "locked down" provider, or an OBi or other brand of BYOD Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)).Fiber optic broadband service (Fiber to the premise), such as Verizon FiOS. You don't have that.
Note that telephone wire is never (legally) run in the same conduit as electric power. A building inspector's head would explode if he saw that. Your issue was either a random hardware failure, or, if the old box can actually be revived, some unreleated issue with your OBi configuration, or a firmware update.
MJINNY:
Thanks Steve, I think you are completely right. I took a second look and there's just nothing there that looks remotely like a demarc box. Firmware may certainly have been an issue (don't think I ever updated it). New one is still working fine...we'll see. Thanks everyone for your assistance!
Here are some pics so people don't think I'm crazy. Notice that on the outside, there's only a meter (sealed), conduit to external outlets, and the incoming CATV. On the inside...it's the circuit breakers and that's about it.
MJINNY:
Guess what? Same issue is happening again. It just started within the past hour. My Obi lost connection with the Google Voice server. I went into the configuration page and all I get now is the status of "configuring" with the circle spinning around and around. The problem is it never actually configures...it keeps on going until it times out and says OFFLINE. I 'm using my newer OBI. This is even more perplexing since Obi officially announced support for Google Voice yesterday. Hmmm... ???
dircom:
FYI, you might call your cable company. The coax does not appear to be grounded anywhere. I have never seen CATV installed without a box outside, and grounded.
MurrayB:
Cable installation does not necessarily use a box but will (should) have a ground block. A ground block is a device where the coaxial cable cable drop is broken via connectors, the feed to the block and the block to the house, and a wire is run from the block to a ground. Typically a connection to a convenient ground is typically on the electric meter.
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