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Line 2 drops to a buzz while dialing out

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Assaultdog0351

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Aug 18, 2017
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Firstly, I would like to thank all of you putting time in to answering peoples questions. I spent the last 3 days skimming manuals and searching your board to get my office phones up to speed.

At my office, the greeting and passwords were made by someone, at some point, and all of the extensions were wrong a decade later and people have been just unplugging their phones to stop the madness.

After receiving 5 phone calls in 1 hour that were not for me, I lost my cool and hit the old google machine to figure this stuff out. So far I have managed to reset all of the passwords, renumbered the voicemails to the extensions, renamed the phones, set lines to supervised, turned off the ring before the AA picks up, made a generic greeting for the correct extensions, then last night I made a CCR tree with transfers with sub levels, internal and external transfers, voicemails.. etc. I felt like the rain main and plotted it all out on a whiteboard.

There is currently one issue I am still having, and that is sometimes line 2 will die and become a buzz when you dial out, or attempt an external transfer. It will remain in this state for a short period of time regardless of you releasing the calls/hanging up. Where should I start looking to resolve this?

My office has old Nortel Norstar phones with a 3x8 something or another and Flash with VM.... I forget what that means. Phones are an unlisted version of the M7310 I think. NT8B20AF-03
 
Please call a tech in to sort your issues out....for a change, especially to test the lines.

What makes more sense?
Paying an IT/employee to read for 3 days or call in a tech?
Everything could have been resolved in less then an hour by a tech.

Somebody here might so please do wait for a reply....I refuse to help out somebody (your boss) who wont call in a tech for 10 years.

I wont buy your product now for 10 years.....which is what btw?
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I work for the government.

We tried to get a tech but our reply was something along the lines of "We don't have a contract for those phones anymore. We can buy you a whole new system, though."

That would probably take another 10 years and receive a generous government markup in price, I prefer ASAP and saving tax payer money. [smile]

Is there any way I can test line 2 without any special equipment? I have a multimeter.
 
Well I am not buying the Government then!

Stay away from those whom force a contract for service.
What city are you in?
There are plenty of vendors across NA that will service Norstar still.

Buzzing noise
-Open KSU (3X8) and swap modular plug from line 2 with line 3 to see if Port issue or Carrier issue
If buzzing is now heard on Line 3 then call the Carrier to report the issue with Line 2
How ever if the problem stays on Port/Line 2 when you call Line 3 then the port is bad.

External transfer:
How do you mean an attempt?
It tries to dial out on it's own? that may indicate and issue with the port.

As a precaution anyway for future...
Could be Toll Fraud from Flash voice mail system where users have weak passwords and mailbox has Outdial set to Pool or Line
-You can check each users mailbox (with their password) and look for Off Premise Notify settings (when logged in press 8 then 6) and see if a phone number was programmed under Phone/Pager
-Make sure everyone does not use trivial passwords like 1234, 1111, etc
-Make sure no mailboxes have "Outdial" programmed in admin programming, if they do delete the mailbox and re-create it.

Lately hackers change the number to *72 and an oversea's number and forward you lines and use another mailbox to cancel with *73 in the morning so that you are oblivious to it until your bill comes in or the Carrier call you.

Otherwise you meed a Test Set to help trouble shoot lines







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