Telephone wiring guide and fault finding

[eddieb1974]

You must use a BB filter on all sockets or you will get a hissing noise from the socket without the filter. Thats what the filter does it filters out the hiss.

Are you using filters on all sockets?

 

[Geordie Spark]

Once you have been on a while sx, you will see Tony is a mind of information, he may be a bit grouchy as he's lost his drug thread ATM.

Aye .... his bark's worse than his bite ...... he's a canny lad really.

I wish I had just a teeny little bit of his knowledge.

 

[sparc]

Many thanks to Phil D and others for help here - it was the splitter. I replaced the one I'd been using with the old handset I using for testing and that did the trick. (Didn't think there was anything in them to go wrong).