can't get home phone jacks hot
M105:
On my telephone setup I have DSL coming into the house on line 2. I have disconnected line 1 completely from the outside box. I feed the output of my Obi back into line 1 so that it feeds all the phones in my home.
Now, what I suspect you are doing is trying to feed your Obi output into a jack that previously supported your DSL modem. I suspect this jack is wired for line 2. Sooooo, if I am right you are feeding your Obi output to line 2 in your home instead of line 1. All the other phone jacks that your phones are plugged into are wired for line 1.
If I am correct, and you can confirm it by looking at the jack wiring, you can either swap the wires around in that jack so you are feeding line 1 or you can simply feed your obi into a jack wired for line 1. Or you can get a splitter and feed the obi into line 2 on it.
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Stated differently: There are at least 4 wires feeding all your phone jacks. One pair constitutes line 1 and the other pair constitutes line 2. Compare the colors of the wiring on your jacks and see if the jack you are feeding the Obi into matches the colors of the jack your phone is connected to. The middle two wires on the modular plug are line 1. The outer two wires are line 2.
mayhem69:
So are you saying i should plug my data line back in outside in my network box. Right now i have my voice and data unplugged in my network box.
Also my house has some new additions with newer wire in that part (blue and blue/white stripe and orange and orange/white stripe. The older part has i think 3 wires green, red, yellow?
I did connect another line, an older line to the phone port of the OBI and 1 jack upstairs did work. I tried switching the wires around on the newer jacks with the blue, blue/stripe and orange, orange/stripe and that did not work.
M105:
Quote from: mayhem69 on August 30, 2011, 06:37:26 pm
So are you saying i should plug my data line back in outside in my network box. Right now i have my voice and data unplugged in my network box.
NO! LEAVE EVERYTHING IN THE OUTSIDE BOX DISCONNECTED! It is likely there is still voltage on the feed from the phone company.
What I am saying is that some of your phone jacks are possibly wired for line 1 and some are wired for line 2. If you want the Obi to feed your jacks make sure it is feeding the same pair of wires on all jacks. Swap the wires in the jack if necessary. In other words the same color wires should be on the inner two contacts of all jacks.
Look at how pair 1 is wired on this site. Either red/green or blue/blue-white are the normal colors for line 1.
http://www.ablecomm.info/wiring.htm
If that does not solve your problem, call someone who understands phone wiring to troubleshoot it.
mayhem69:
ok, so i only need to use 2 wires then correct? probably the blue and blue/white connected to the other terminals on the jack.
I did do this last night, i sat about 20 minutes at 2 different phone jacks and switched the wires around and could not get a dial tone.
Now i do know that when i got DSL service a few yrs. ago, they installed some kind of connector in my basement ceiling. Maybe that has something to do with it?
Thanks for your help M105, i will keep trying.
M105:
What colors are on the line 1 terminals of the jack connected to your Obi?
What colors are on the line 1 terminals of the jack to which your phone is connected?
They should match.
If they match and you still have no dial tone, then you have a problem other than a line 1 or 2 issue and you need a technician to put eyes on it.
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