can't get home phone jacks hot
RonR:
If you look at the phone jacks on all your wall plates, you'll likely see they four terminals, wires, or connections of some sort. Line 1 (which is what you want to use) is the two centermost pins on the jack. These usually have a red and green wire connecting them to terminals. Line 2 (which will remain unused) usually have a yellow and black wire connecting them.
It appears you have different colored cabling in separate areas of your house. One cable has blue/blue-stripe and orange/orange-stripe colored pairs and the other cable has red/green and yellow/black colored pairs.
All the jacks need to have their Line 1 (red/green) wired terminals connected to the blue/blue-stripe pair or the red/green pair, as applicable in each area.
At the outside box (or anywhere else appropriate), you need to connect the blue/blue-stripe pair of that cable to the red/green pair of that cable to get all the jacks working. Just don't allow any of the pairs to be connected to the outside world.
mayhem69:
OK, i have a dial tone at my jacks and thought everything was good but when i call out and the other party picks up i hear nothing.
RonR:
Is everything OK when using the echo test at **9 222 222 222?
Also, temporarily bypass your router by connecting the OBi directly to your broadband modem. Power-cycle both units after doing so. If the problem goes away without your router in the loop, you'll have located the source of the problem.
mayhem69:
Finally got it working. All i did was switch all the wires around on the connection plate where they meet in my basement. Now all the jacks are hot and i can hear the other end when i call.
Thanks to all who have helped me with this issue. I will never go back to paying landline bills, so now my house will always be ready for voip.
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