If your phone line is disconnected what should you hear with a phone plugged in?

[ska invita]

If your phone line is disconnected what should you hear with a phone plugged in? Should there be any sound at all? Even a crackle?
Ive tried looking it up online but cant find a good answer.
Thanks in advance

 

[cupid_stunt]

You mean disconnected by your landline provider or a fault on the line?

My mother's line was dead last Monday, if I dialled her it sounded like it was ringing, but her phone wasn't. Tried dialing out from her phone, no sound whatsoever.

Disconnected her care-line from the master socket & plugged a phone into that, no sound whatsoever, so at least I knew the fault was outside of her place.

 

[Treacle Toes]

If your phone line is disconnected what should you hear with a phone plugged in? Should there be any sound at all? Even a crackle?
Ive tried looking it up online but cant find a good answer.
Thanks in advance

When this happened to me it was just dead. no sound.

 

[ska invita]

You mean disconnected by your landline provider or a fault on the line?
place.

yeah from provider

 

[Treacle Toes]

WHen people called me it was ringing at the exchange but not in my house. Apparently it was an engineer error at the local exchange box where they basically unplugged me and gave my connection to someone else.

 

[cupid_stunt]

yeah from provider

Can you ring them from a mobile & ask?

 

[platinumsage]

Depends how it's disconnected. Could be anything from silence to a dial tone but unable to make and/or receive calls. Likewise people dialing the number could get anything from a ringing tone through a message saying the line is unavailable or a continuous beep etc..

 

[ska invita]

yeah i shouldve explained more. I stopped paying for a line, am mobile only, on an internet only package.
my question is now that I plug a phone in to the line theres absolutely no sound...is that correct?


The reason I ask is because ive got a burglar alarm connected to that line and if the alarm goes off it calls my phone.
I forgot about this when i disconnected the line. stupid
I stopped paying for the line about three or four months back.If you call the number it it says "number not in service".
however as recently as last month the alarm went off and it managed to call me.
now it seems to have stopped being able to call me....in fact the alarm won't arm itself, as its seemingly detected the phone line bit isnt working.
im trying to work out if its because i need to reinstate the line (very very likely), or if there might be a problem on the line...maybe its taken them this long to disconnect the line? though up till now the alarm was able to call me, even though the "not in service" message was there

 

[cupid_stunt]

Well, if you stopped paying for it months ago, it's hardly surprising that it's been disconnected.

Or, in the unlikely case that it's a fault, you aren't going to get it fixed now, without paying for the line.

 

[ska invita]

Well, if you stopped paying for it months ago, it's hardly surprising that it's been disconnected.

Or, in the unlikely case that it's a fault, you aren't going to get it fixed now, without paying for the line.

yeah of course!
but somehow the alarm still managed to make calls on the line.... which has confused me.
almost certainly i need to reinstall the line, but just ruling out issues in case something else is up with the line itself

 

[klang]

in an ideal world you'd hear

 

[ska invita]

in an ideal world you'd hear

;D
my mate in High Barnet gets Captial Gold playing very quietly in the background on his landline almost certainly theyve played the Big Bopper before

 

[cupid_stunt]

;D
my mate in High Barnet gets Captial Gold playing very quietly in the background on his landline almost certainly theyve played the Big Bopper before

They are near the high powered Saffron Green AM site for Captial Gold, it shouldn't be happening TBH, could be easily solved.

We had this problem in Ireland when we fired-up the imported 1Kw American AM rig, which was out town, so only about a dozen properties had the problem, our [pirate radio] engineers went up a couple of telegraph poles & fitted something or other, IIRC resistors, which solved the problem.

Well, until there was a major storm which brought down some lines, and Telecom Éireann engineers went up the poles to reconnect lines, and removed the resistors, so, our engineers had to go back up again & replace them.

 

[Saul Goodman]

yeah i shouldve explained more. I stopped paying for a line, am mobile only, on an internet only package.
my question is now that I plug a phone in to the line theres absolutely no sound...is that correct?


The reason I ask is because ive got a burglar alarm connected to that line and if the alarm goes off it calls my phone.
I forgot about this when i disconnected the line. stupid
I stopped paying for the line about three or four months back.If you call the number it it says "number not in service".
however as recently as last month the alarm went off and it managed to call me.
now it seems to have stopped being able to call me....in fact the alarm won't arm itself, as its seemingly detected the phone line bit isnt working.
im trying to work out if its because i need to reinstate the line (very very likely), or if there might be a problem on the line...maybe its taken them this long to disconnect the line? though up till now the alarm was able to call me, even though the "not in service" message was there

The alarm won't dial you without a working phone line.

 

[ska invita]

The alarm won't dial you without a working phone line.

...and yet it did as recently as last month
iyswim

 

[danski]

...and yet it did as recently as last month
iyswim

I think that was by the same token as when getting a line connected, they say it’s fine when it isn’t; the lazy engineer has not actually connected at the cab. Probably the same in reverse.

 

[Saul Goodman]

...and yet it did as recently as last month
iyswim

Then the phone line must have been working as recently as last month, unless your alarm uses the mobile network and a SIM card?

 

[ska invita]

Then the phone line must have been working as recently as last month, unless your alarm uses the mobile network and a SIM card?

yeah its weird. if you called my line last month it said it was disconnected

im just putting off the hour long call to Virgin here really

 

[WouldBe]

yeah its weird. if you called my line last month it said it was disconnected

im just putting off the hour long call to Virgin here really

It will just be a delay between them telling the computer in the exchange that you've been disconnected and them physically disconnecting you.

 

[two sheds]

in an ideal world you'd hear

All of America in the audience looks like it's chewing gum

 

[ska invita]

It turns out I was still getting line rental and the line is down

the things you learn

i also learned what my phone number is

 

[cupid_stunt]

So, are are still paying for the line?

 

[dessiato]

in an ideal world you'd hear

My wife is with Orange Mundo, you get a choice of two tracks to listen to while waiting for her to pick up. The tracks are different every time.