Next great adventure - hooking up VOIP for the house
drgeoff:
Quote from: FlintstoneGummy on April 02, 2021, 12:34:39 pm
QQ: any guesses as to why if I hook a traditional landline phone into the Verizon line in (before it entered the junction box and get distributed throughout the house), I didn't hear a dial tone?
There is no mysterious reason. Only 3 possibilities:
1. You were not connecting to the phone pair. Wrong cable or not the correct two wires in a cable with more than 2 wires.
2. Faulty phone or cord.
3. Poor connection. The telco does not put dial tone on the line until it the phone has been taken off-hook and completes a loop through the phone circuitry. That is done by sensing the current that flows when the hook switch operates. Anything that causes that current to be zero or too low means no dial tone.
FlintstoneGummy:
Update: after reading even more and getting progressively more terrified at the idea of destroying equipment, electrocuting myself, or burning down my in-law's home, I have chickened out.
Since I am just solving for 2 old landline phones, I decided to buy a bunch of "wireless phone jacks" off eBay and work with those.
drgeoff:
Quote from: FlintstoneGummy on April 03, 2021, 11:04:56 am
Update: after reading even more and getting progressively more terrified at the idea of destroying equipment, electrocuting myself, or burning down my in-law's home, I have chickened out.
Since I am just solving for 2 old landline phones, I decided to buy a bunch of "wireless phone jacks" off eBay and work with those.
I would suggest a set of DECT base station and two handsets. Panasonic models have a good reputation.
FlintstoneGummy:
Quote from: drgeoff on April 03, 2021, 01:58:49 pm
I would suggest a set of DECT base station and two handsets. Panasonic models have a good reputation.
That was my initial thought but my in-laws are 1) stubborn, 2) Paleolithic, and 3) set in their ways. They are actually crazily attached to their ancient landline phones and are frightened of new technology.
Smee:
I've done this for my house and my parents. The only trick here is that you disconnect your Telco's line from the NID and make sure you connect the Obi in a way that it delivers the right polarity to your phones in the house. Keep in mind that the Obi will probably only be able to drive 5 phones in the house before you have other issues. To drive more phones, you may need another device to help with that.
Smee
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