Cordless Phone Does Not Ring

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Q. I am facing a baffling problem. I have a corded and a cordless phone hooked in my apartment along with AT&T DSL internet on the same phone line. Few days back my 900Mhz Uniden cordless phone stopped ringing whenever there used to be incoming call. My corded phone continue to ring and I could even use either phones to answer the calls. There was no problem for outging calls also from either phones. Some times for incoming calls the corded phone use to ring only once and gets directly connected. I picked any of the phones I could answer the call.

A. I unplugged all the phones and DSL for 10 min and then reconnected only the cordless phone. Then called the number from my cell phone. The phone do not ring for incoming calls nor the answering machine. Outgoing calls and dial tone are working fine. In fact cordless phone do not ring at all whether connected stand-alone or with corded phone. The phenomenon started just a couple of weeks back, before that everything was working file for past 3 months with the same set-up. I tried 3 different phone jacks in my apartment with 2 different cordless phone (900Mhz & 2.4Ghz) which works fine in my friend's place. Please suggest. Thanks When I call from cell phone to the cordless, I can hear ringing in the cell phone. I can pick the non-ringing cordless and talk normally. The connection is good as normal, only problem is I do not get notification of an incoming call. Could this be a short (through defective wiring, lightning arrestor, or perhaps through a defective DSL filter, since those were probably installed recently) that only conducts at the higher voltages involved with the ringing signal? I don't think the poster has said what happens with a hard-wired phone (best of all with an old one with the mechanical ringer). Is there any evidence that he's getting (adequate) ringing voltage under any conditions? There are others here who would know far better than I, but when DSL was hooked up, would his telephone line been switched to a different card at the office (or in the pedestal on the street)?

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