Connect Obi200 to house telco wiring
Scope:
I left out an important aspect of this. I don't have any ethernet wiring upstairs in the house near a phone jack where I could plug the obi into both internet and phone line. That's why I am trying to connect it downstairs where it appears all the other house telco lines have centralized. And where the ethernet switching is located
mo832:
Quote from: Scope on July 02, 2018, 02:02:09 pm
Thanks. I actually went outside and disconnected the line going into the house. Then hard the Telco provider remove the box completely. So I am offline from Telco.
I did just that. Plugged in Obi to jack downstairs and it shows as line in use on Obi -> but no dial tone anywhere. If I then plug directly into handset all good.
I have two photos I wanted to included to see if 1) I should connect a phone line from obi to same central punch down as all other house lines.
It sounds like those jacks are not actually connected to each other. If they were, you should hear a dial tone. When the telco was connected, you could have picked up any handset and heard another handset that was off-hook.
I'm thinking there may be something that is still plugged in to that wiring that could be interfering, but still you should be able to hear *something* if those two jacks are in fact connected to each other. Could one of them be on a different pair?
drgeoff:
Quote from: Scope on July 02, 2018, 02:02:09 pm
Plugged in Obi to jack downstairs and it shows as line in use on Obi -> but no dial tone anywhere.
Unplug all the phones. Connect the PHONE jack of the OBi to a wall jack. If the OBi shows the line is in use, the house wiring is faulty.
Scope:
When I had normal landline service (up to last week) everything worked fine. All handsets connected to jacks work as they should on a single line multi jack house.
Why would it now be faulty?
If so whats the best way to test each line. I can plug in a toner to a jack upstairs and try to trace it down stairs. If I find all the jack lines running back to the basement they are centralized on either this small punch down or the old security panel. MY phone lines look like they run to both. I have included two links to the devices that terminate the telco wiring in the house.
Thanks for the help.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kx2Srdf-GzZ-8YPvN7EeVmgNZNa-2iE5
https://drive.google.com/open?id=13bfEgoVkz64A2koPZwdBCYf_9pu_r3CN
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