Line Phone Configuration?
Pedro675:
I am not yet signed up for Obihai until I figure out how I am going to wire my house phones to work and need some help.
I only have telephone service which also gives us DSL (no cable option). We have a "main" wired line phone in the kitchen (main floor) and 5 cordless phones (3 on main floor, 1 upstairs and 1 in the garage) which run off one base unit in my office. Also in my office is my wifi router/modem. The telephone company's line connects to my router/modem in the office and is split through a filter for DSL and phone. The DSL split is connected to the router/modem the phone split is connected to the cordless phone base unit. All phones need to have a DSL filter set to "Phone" to hook up the phones.
I need to know physically how to wire the necessary devices to get all phones to work and what equipment from Obhai I will need to make this as simple as possible. Direct advice and links welcome.
Thanks.
GPz1100:
You could connect the cordless phone base station directly to the obi unit. Before you start porting number over or making more permanent changes I'd make sure your internet service is up to par in terms of handling voip.
DSL is not the best medium for voip due to high latency/jitter.
drgeoff:
Not sure what you mean by "sign up for Obihai". Obihai provides a hardware box. You also need service from someone else to reach and by reached by other phone numbers.
Are you planning to cease the existing landline phone service and instead use one or more VoIP companies? Or do you want to keep the landline and add one or more VoIP companies? If you want the latter you should purchase an OBi212. If the former applies then an Obi200 or Obi202 is appropriate. The 202 has two independent phone jacks so will support two simultaneous calls if you have the requisite phones plugged in.
The single phone jack on the 212 or 200 emulates the 'phone' output from your DSL splitting filter and should be connected to your kitchen phone and the DECT base station. If all phone service is to be via an Obi200 or Obi202 then the DSL splitter filter is redundant and can be removed - the telco line going directly into the DSL modem-router. If you are retaining the telco phone service the OBi212 is wired between the 'phone' output of the splitter and the phones that are currently plugged in there.
Pedro675:
Quote from: GPz1100 on February 26, 2018, 11:38:25 am
You could connect the cordless phone base station directly to the obi unit. Before you start porting number over or making more permanent changes I'd make sure your internet service is up to par in terms of handling voip.
DSL is not the best medium for voip due to high latency/jitter.
Thanks for the heads up. Yes our DSL comes from CenturyLink (CL) which has a terrible history of poor service. CenturyLink is out ONLY choice here as there is no cable available. I've had DSL connection problems with CL and they cannot be very prompt to fix. But we also have cell phones as a backup for phone service and lately CL has been more reliable. As well I purchased a new Netgear router/modem which is showing to be more reliable than the previous ActionTec model.
Not sure I understand "latency", does that mean a delay between what is said and when that is heard on the other end?
Pedro675:
Quote from: drgeoff on February 26, 2018, 11:45:51 am
Are you planning to cease the existing landline phone service and instead use one or more VoIP companies?
Thanks for replying. Yes, I want to cease telephone service from my ISP (CenturyLink) and just use their DSL. I now get both DSL and phone service from a single line which uses filters at the phone jacks to route to "DSL" or "Phone"
I found a good and detailed explanation of hook up choices and considerations on a link I found on this forum but am still trying to understand it fully.
I have six twisted pairs coming from the phone company wiring into the "Network Interface Unit (NIU). Five are not being used and are capped off. The Blue wire is connected to the inside wiring Red wire and the White wire is connected to the Green wire (line 1). The inside wiring Black and Yellow are just dangling and unattached (line 2).
The instructions I have been reading say to route the Line 1 (Red/Green) to the Line 2 (Black/Yellow) so I get DSL now on Line 2. I would have to connect the Black/Yellow wires to phone company orange/white wires. Then use the Line 1 wires to connect the OBi200 to my existing phones through my router/modem which is now connected to Line 2. I can use a Line 1/Line 2 splitter connected to my telephone jack. This would enable me to connect 5 of my six cordless phones from one location at the router and use my lined kitchen 2 line phone switched to line 2.
I hope I've described this to make sense?
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