phone line busy or no signal

All of a sudden when I try to connect the line is either busy or dead. When I unplug the line from the jack and plug it back in the signal is fine. I share this line with a dediacated fax machine(shouldn't matter). This never happened before. Could it be the phone jack or hardware

Thank
Rob

Sounds more like a modem issue.
It is not releasing and returning to a wait state when you sign off.
Unplugging the line breaks the signal and forces it to reset.

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"rmf99992001" <rmf99992001@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> All of a sudden when I try to connect the line is either busy or dead.
> When I unplug the line from the jack and plug it back in the signal is
> fine. I share this line with a dediacated fax machine(shouldn't matter).
> This never happened before. Could it be the phone jack or hardware?
>
> Thanks
> Rob