Phone LinesMy wife called me when I was at the IM NY thing last night on her cell phone to tell me the phone lines are out.

I tried to walk her through rebooting the thing but I failed. So when I got home at about 11, I rebooted it myself. I did the standard run down...

(1) Make sure phone line is plugged in securely on both ends
(2) Make sure RJ-45 is plugged in securely on both ends
(3) Reboot router
(4) Reboot Vonage box

I still got dead air, no dial tone.

So I plugged a phone directly into the Vonage box and it worked. There I learned my phone lines were fried.

How? I have no idea... It has been like that for a month. I did not change anything for a month. Then all of a sudden, last night, they stopped working.

So in the meantime, I hooked up the vonage box to a phone station which has three wireless hand sets. It will work fine for now.

I am just really bummed about wasting time on it last night and the lines being fried.