Line Phone Configuration?
Pedro675:
Quote from: Almighty1 on March 13, 2018, 07:16:43 pm
What telco are you using anyways?
Centurylink, or as they are called around here, Centurystink. Worst telco I've ever had. Service is rotten, all customer calls routed to Philippines where no one knows anything and keeps transferring my call until they cut me off. They used to blame my modem every time the DSL went out, but now they do at least write a service ticket to get it fixed in 3-4 days (WOW). They have the monopoly here for phone and DSL, no cable available, and they always end the call by saying, "Thanks for choosing CenturyLink"; no choosing about it. Luckily I have a direct number to local repair office and a great tech with cell number who keeps me running. CL does not want it done that way but it's working for now and I try not to abuse.
Neighbor (who has no land line just cell) told me he signed up for introductory DSL rate of $35 then after 3 months they raised it to $75. I pay $77+tx ($103) for DSL (8mb/s), phone, LD unlimited and unlimited to Canada. He called them back and they lowered it to $45. That number makes it worth my while to drop the phone and use DSL and GV. His speed is 25 mb/s upload but only .7 mb/s download, but I also have .7 download, not sure why it's the same.
Almighty1:
Haha, CenturyLink is basically what used to be known as Qwest (Qworst) and USWest (USWorst) before that. They purchased Savvis which is a excellent Internet backbone. Are you actually in the southern US? I think you mean he has 25Mbps download and 0.7Mbps upload as people would be happy to get 25bps upload.
DSMDenny:
I'm better at wiring than I was in configuring GV so here is an idea:
For the test, simply plug the base unit into the OBI device. Don't worry about wiring at all. Once that works, you have the 5 cordless phones working on the OBI. Rather than do any wiring changes at all, how about buying another cordless phone to add to the 5 you already have. Put that one in the kitchen in place of the current wired phone.
That way, you will need to do no wiring changes other than plugging the cordless base into the OBI.
Yes, you could use an unused pair, e.g. black-yellow to back-feed the voice from the OBI down to the kitchen phone, but why go to that work. You would need to change the kitchen phone to the black-yellow as well as the change in the office that back-feeds the new voice line via OBI.
I have used Centurylink and also a regional cable company. CL is many times more reliable than the cable. Much fewer outages and many, many times less short term stutters. When cable works, it is fantastic. Unless it is having an issue and web pages keep saying not reachable even though speed test is lightning fast. Happens too often with cable, almost never with CL.
GPz1100:
That's a great idea... We did that a while ago when staples had a special on some vtechs.. Bought 2 packages and combined all the handsets to one base station. Instructions were buried in one of the reviews for this model on amazon.
Pedro675:
Quote from: DSMDenny on March 15, 2018, 09:52:56 pm
For the test, simply plug the base unit into the OBI device. Don't worry about wiring at all. Once that works, you have the 5 cordless phones working on the OBI. Rather than do any wiring changes at all, how about buying another cordless phone to add to the 5 you already have. Put that one in the kitchen in place of the current wired phone.
Yes, I was planning a test with existing wiring and cordless phones. My cordless base only supports 5 extensions so the kitchen phone will have to be wired. I can go with more extensions but will need a new base and extensions - not worth it right now.
I found I have Cat5 wire from just inside the NID in the crawl space, I must have done that at some point. It only goes to the office where my DSL and cordless base it, but that will do for now. I'll have to install the CAT5 from the NID to my splitter just inside, then also from the other end up inside the wall to the wall jack. Can't get CAT5 anymore by the foot but I have left over Cat6 that i used to run ethernet from my router to my TV for streaming.
A lot of good ideas coming here to help me. Next step is getting the telco guy to install the DSL switch.
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