Was suddenly contronted with the Sunday a.m. Verizon is of little/no help, except to say they will send a tech out on Friday the 18th. Situation: 1.No dial tone; unable to place outgoing calls 2. All incoming calls are diverted to VZ provided Voice Mail box, where they are available for retrieval if I use a second off- premises phone and call in using VZ's procedures. 3. My DSL works fine. It is not a home run from NID to PC, but is simply picked up out of the wall. My understanding of this phenomenon is that since it is digital, it is duplex over one wire and that is why it is still working
Factors bearing on the problem: 1. Have checked out 2 telephones by taking to neighbors house. Using either one, plugged directly into the NID, situations 1 and 2 above remain unchanged 2. Have unplugged, house from NID. Situation 2 remains unchanged.
Was sort of hoping there was a lineman out there who could provide some advice. If anyone is aware of a better forum in which I might seek advice on this, I would appreciate it. Trapped a couple of VZ repair folks in their truck this morning. They said that given the circumstances, there is probably a short in a line between the C.O. and the NID.