Obi110 and Panasonic KX-TA624 PBX system
00aas:
Hey everyone, amazing forum and I've learned so much reading about this wonderful product.
Does anyone have any experience using the Obi110 with the Panasonix analog PBX hybrid system KX-TA624?
We use the KX-TA624 to coordinate 15 phones throughout the house, and just wondering if anyone has used this successfully to replace one of the main outside CO lines.
thanks and appreciate anyone's help/insight with this!
sincerely,
-A
RonR:
Did you catch this thread?:
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=953.0
00aas:
Thanks Ron, looks like it will work perfectly if I just use the phone port of Obi into the key system's CO2.
I don't think I understand the conversation in the rest of the thread that you directed me to (i.e., plugging the line port into an extension and doing all that fancy auto attendant stuff-- actually no idea what that means or whether that can also apply to the KX-TA624 system).
One additional related question though-- how long a phone cord can I run from the Obi110 and still get good voice quality? Our internet modem is on the second floor of the house, and the KX-TA624 main unit is all the way downstairs in the basement. Each floor is 9 feet, so that's a maximum of 27 feet to get down, and the about 40 feet to cross the basement (although probably less since it will follow other lines)...
thanks again for all your help! really appreciate it and hope you're having a wonderful day!
-A
MichiganTelephone:
Quote from: 00aas on July 03, 2011, 06:12:45 am
One additional related question though-- how long a phone cord can I run from the Obi110 and still get good voice quality? Our internet modem is on the second floor of the house, and the KX-TA624 main unit is all the way downstairs in the basement. Each floor is 9 feet, so that's a maximum of 27 feet to get down, and the about 40 feet to cross the basement (although probably less since it will follow other lines)...
There's no problem whatsoever with a cable that length (remember, phone companies have copper pairs that extend for miles) but if it were me, I'd run Cat 5 rather than the flat stuff normally used in shorter phone cables. The twisted pairs are somewhat more immune to picking up electrical noise and interference from nearby radio transmitters. Besides, if you run cat 5 you have four pairs, so should you ever decide to add additional VoIP lines (up to 4) you won't have to pull cable again.
At each end of the run, you can connect the Cat 5 to a standard phone jack, then use a regular short cable (like the one that came with your OBi110) to connect that jack to your devices (unless your KX-TA624 has screw terminals that can be used to connect the cable directly - in that case, just use a jack at the OBi110 end).
Alternately, it may be possible to find an unused pair in existing phone wiring that could be used to make the connection, as long as you can ascertain that it's not connected to any lines coming from the telephone company, and you can ascertain that it never will be. See How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home for more information.
RonR:
Quote from: 00aas on July 03, 2011, 06:12:45 am
One additional related question though-- how long a phone cord can I run from the Obi110 and still get good voice quality?
I wouldn't be concerned about this. A long phone cord is not much different than the wiring in your home would be. The OBi also has Rx and Tx gain adjustments that can be made if there is a little additional loss.
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