[geeks] DSL and a second phone line

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> <start "shaggy dog" story>
> 
> I live in a ground floor apartment on a hill with a small office down
> the hill under our balcony. The owners of the second floor apartment
> decided that our grape arbor was encroaching on their windows, so they
> hired a butcher with a saw to "trim" it. He cut almost all of it down,
> and the grape vine still has not recovered after almost 4 years.
> Meanwhile he cut a voice line that went to the office.
> 
> When I called BEZEQ for service they came out. At the time I had a frame
> relay line going down to the office. Voice lines are wired on the two middle
> wires (3&4) of a phone jack, frame relay lines on the outside two (1&6).
> 
> Not hearing any tone on the voice part of the line, and not bothering to
> read the "kav f/r" and a line number on the jack, he disconnected the
> frame relay line and connected the voice line to it.
> 
> <end "shaggy dog" story>

*winces*  Ouch.

That's a hangin' offense.

Peace...  Sridhar