Phone Cables Location

[best4less]

tried installing a modem for a mate but his phone socket is not giving any dial tone
He has never used the phone line and he has been there for 4 years

but DoDo says the phone is ringing LOL
there is no other phone socket that I could find in the house
And the only thing I could find on the outside of the house was like a cable box with
a isolator Model number ZN-Au in it using coaxial cables, he said he had fox installed some time back

Where can I look for the phone junction box thingy LOL

Cheers

[marty 17]

Should be on the outside wall or inside a garage closest to the pit on the boundary.

Socket blue + white wires should have 50 volts DC and if you hook a phone to it you should at least hear side tone (blow in the mouth piece and you should hear something in the ear piece.

Hook multimeter across the blue white and call the number.

[best4less]

Thanks marty greatly apreciate the advice

but of course Telstra did not hook it up at
the local exchage lol

[marty 17]

but of course Telstra did not hook it up at
the local exchage lol

'Whats new pussycat" our daughter moved within the same exchange area, the new address had an intact line and yet it still took 10 days until she had phone/internet again even though it had priority being a business service.

[gordon_s1942]

In the 'Good Old days', if there was a line fault or not connected, you got the engaged signal or a message but now its just as likely to ring out as though its a connected line.