After I typed that, I realized I had it backwards. I'd disconnect my home wiring at the NID and short the leads with a jumper (alligator clips). Then I'd use the leads of a modular plug as an easy way to check each jack for zero ohms with a meter. (I haven't used my phone wiring since 2011.)
We used to clean contacts with a burnishing tool, like an extremely fine file. Contact cleaner may work. I had a key switch in an old car where contact cleaner would fix it temporarily. Eventually, I tried WE-40. It has worked ever since.
I had a browser interface with DSL. After all these years, I'm not sure what information I could get from a dialup modem.
No.
It's in the form of a website with several pages. It's not the worldwide web. Instead of coming through my ISP, it comes directly from my modem.
AT&T sent me a CD to automate the installation of my modem. Without the CD, I could have set it up through the browser interface.
I guess I left dialup about 10 years ago and DSL about 4 years ago, so I'm a little foggy. The browser interface was with my DSL modem. What model modem do you have? What version of Windows?
I tried contact cleaner and I couldnt' get in all the way but I gently scraped with a pen knife
WE-40, huh. That's the successor to WD-40 iiuc. I'll try it.
I may try De-oxit too. maybe half of the keys with one and half with the other. No promises but I'll get back to you in a year or two.
Looks like I need to spray my keyboard with WF-40.
J Burns posted for all of us...
You realize this is floor re-finisher and not any good for renewing n/w jacks? Geez get a good jack at Big boxers or electrical supply and replace it, weatherproof it as possible, put a drain hole in, and stuff it with grease as noted by others. I had an interior jack do this in a modular classroom where the roof leaked into the wall cavity.
micky posted for all of us...
Why don't you give us all the details up-front? Man o' man all this reading and no info except from every other poster who tells of their own setup; like we really care.
I tried WTF-40, but after that I really didn't care one way or the other.
Another solution would be to put cardboard under the jack before you pump it up. That way you won't have to refinish the floor.
I've done that sort of thing when I found myself in a very dark room and thought I could navigate by memory. I had to choose between a luminous compass and a headlamp. I chose the headlamp.
LOL
I don't remember. ;-(
XP. I'll upgrade eventually. But on a good day the XP works exceeedingly well.
On another topic, drip loops, since the opening to the NID is at the bottom, the new setup has a drip loop automatically.
J Burns posted for all of us...
If I had jacked anything in that trailer it would have put a drain hole through the floor...
Until January of 1965, Bob Dylan used to mount his jack outside his trailer. Then he discovered, "the jack don't work cuz a vandal took the handle."
That's probably why Micky's jack doesn't work! He needs to post his property: "Fine for Trespassing."
This page says 192.168.2.1 is a common address for your modem console. It may have been the address my DSL modem used. My current modem uses another number.
This may explain how to find your modem's private IP from XP. On a Mac, my modem's private IP is listed as "router."
Drip loops remind me of ditching a tent. In wet winter weather, my BIL's goats used to live in mud in their hillside sheds. It couldn't have been healthful. I solved it in minutes by scraping a ditch on the uphill side of each shed, as I would with a tent. No more mud inside!
I'll read it. Tanks.
I'm sure they appreciated it. As much as a goat can.
Seriously, a good idea.
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