Static Noise on Phone Line for All Jacks

Hi,

I recently moved into a newer house (built 1997) and just started up phone service. I am finding a loud static/buzz noise on the line for all four of the house's jacks. I have tested this with two different phones, one w/ cord and one cordless - same results for both. When I test directly at the outside box, the line is crystal clear.

When I first pick up the phone, I get a clear line for about 5-7 seconds and then the loud static/buzz appears and remains constant. When the noise appears it almosts gives the feeling of a capacitor charging up over a single second.

Although the sound quality is horrible, I am mostly able to call out and call in, but sometimes the call cuts short.

I have tried opening up each jack to see if wiggling the wires have any impact on sound quality, but can find no correlation.

Does anyone have any insight? Any ideas would be most appreciated!

---Mark

 

Ahh, I figured out the issue and now have it resolved. The home security system was producing the noise on the line.

 

I am having the same problem. We do have a home security system, but it's not activated. Could this still be the problem?

 

DSL will do the same thing. We put a filter at the box for the whole house and this solved most of the problems, although one phone next to a dimmer switch still buzzes annoyingly!

 

actually the one room that doesn't have a lot of static is the room with the DSL All the other rooms have a lot of static

 

sounds like a poor install , do you have filters on all the jacks?

 

I don't think so...I also have dishnetwork that has be connected to the phone line..would that be another problem

 

"What did you end up doing?"

We also had a security system that was not activated. I found that all of our phone jack lines came all the way to the outside box. However, instead of being connected directly to the phone service, those lines were connected to a cable that went BACK in through the house to the security system and then routed back outside again to the box and connected to the phone service. Does that make sense? At the outside box, I merely took the security system out of the loop. I took the ends to the "phone-jack" cables, separated them from the security system cable and connected them directly into the phone service.

Now that we are having our security system activated, I will have the security system technician figure out how to get that setup correctly. I figured that it would be cheaper to take this approach, having a security system tech instead of a Verizon phone technician.

 

The reason for this is simple: If your phone line is busy, and the alarm goes off, it won't be able to dial out. The fix is to give the security system the ability to take over the line. That is done by running the line to the security system first, then to the phone jacks. In case of an alarm, a switch built into the security system cuts the connection to those downstream jacks.

Since all of your jacks are fed by homeruns from the NID, they were all hooked to that pair returning the phone signal to the NID from the security system.


If you activate the alarm, the tech will have to change it back to the way it was.