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Thursday, July 25th, 2019 11:00 AM

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VoIP with House Internal Wiring

I recently converted my phone service from AT&T landline to Xfinity VoIP, using the latest Xfinity modem/gateway.  I have my telephone line connected to my modem through my house internal wiring.  This works fine EXCEPT that when I receive an incoming call, the external phone rings are "clipped", that is, the first ring is normal,  then subsequent rings are cutoff after a short chirp.  All other aspects of the phone call are normal, including the ring sound heard by the caller. 

If I connect my phones directly to the modem (not thru the house wiring) everything works fine.  Therefore, technically this is not a Xfinity/Comcast problem, but something to do with my house wiring.  But I am hoping to get some ideas from the community on what may be the problem?   Thanks.


    

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11.2K Messages

6 years ago

Hi hwherron, from what it sounds like it could be an inside wiring issue.  If you would like I can help schedule a technician visit so he can check you lines.  If interested please send me a private message with your full name to begin.

 

Thank you 

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6 years ago

Go outside and disconnect AT&T in the nid on the side of your house (or wherever it comes in for you).

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6 years ago

Thanks for your reply.  I disconnected the landline feed at my house entry portal early-on.  So that's not the problem.  What other problems may there be with my internal house wiring? 

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6 years ago

Is there any dsl filters on any of your jacks?

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6 years ago

No, I have no DSL filters nor Analog Telephone Adapters (ATA).  Do I need any of these?  From all I have read, I should not.  Again, the perplexing thing is that everything works fine when connected directly to the modem, i.e. my 2 phones connected via a splitter directly to the modem.  But as soon as I connect my internal house wiring to the modem via a wire to the nearest house phone jack, the phone sharing the splitter with the wire to the house jack does not ring properly.  I have concluded the problem lies with my internal house wiring vs. VoIP.   

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6 years ago

Are you sure you did not set up spam filtering or perhaps it was already set up.  Xfinity has a free method to filter spam calls.  They have a list of know spammers and the way it works is if the caller is a known spammer, the phone will ring once and then that is it.  The call is forwarded to somewhere else or back to the spammer, I don't know which.  If the phone rings more than once, it is a call that is not on their list of a known spammer.  This does not mean that it is not a spam call but the probability of it being legit is high.  I recently set this up and it seems to be working fairly well.

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7 Messages

6 years ago

We do not have SPAM filtering.  Our phones ring properly if connected directly to the modem without going thru house wiring.  We do have NoMoRoBo.

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6 years ago

I sent you an email to ComcasatPhill at forums@alerts.xfinity.com to take you up on your offer to send a Comcast tech.  If you haven't received it, please advise on how best to contact  you.  Thanks.   

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6 years ago

Apologies for the delayed reply, hwherron! The forums@alerts.xfinity.com email is a bot email that sends forum notifications. In order to send me or Phill a message, please click on my name ComcastElla (or ComcastPhill), then click Send a message.  

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6 years ago

Clicking on your name (previous messge) does nothing.  Can't you provide a direct email-addr?  Thx for still remembering us.  We still have the original-described problem.

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6 years ago

Hi hwherron, 

 

We can continue to investigate. As the Corporate Digital Care Team, we primarily work through a private message on social media to resolve concerns. I'll be happy to give you a call if that's what you prefer, however, I should be able to get everything resolved through this message. Would that be okay? 

 

Can you please make sure you are logged into your forums account and then try sending a message again by clicking on my name, "ComcastChe" then click send a message. In the body of this message please verify your first and last name. 

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