Our telephones have been giving us a little problem for a while. Our old phones would occasionally not ring when someone called. The batteries finally died for the second time so we recently bought some new phones at Costco. Things seemed fine for a while. Then recently we would mis calls even when we were home. Then I noticed the screen would light when someone called but no ring. The instructions were reread and followed, still no luck. Since these are cordless phones and we have often thought about getting a hardwire phone for when the power goes out we ordered a phone from Amazon.
Dang those folks are fast. The phone was ordered Friday evening and arrived today. I didn't pay for special shipping. So plugged it in and called a friend to have him call me back. No ring but the screen lit up on the cordless display to show line activity. With his help calling back it was determined that the line to the house was fine. Since we have DSL for our internet he suggested changing the DSL filter. BINGO! The DSL filter was tripping the ring current.
The only sad part about this is we now will be bothered by telemarketers again.
jtk