Line out VS Phone

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YellowFly:
Hi,
My question is regarding the Line out on the OBi110.  I guess I must be missing something… or mine is defective.  Isn’t the only thing I need to do is plug the supplied phone cable into a wall phone jack and the other end into the OBI line jack and it should distribute the VOIP service throughout my home… Because it doesn’t… it doesn’t do anything.  If I plug the cord into the jack on the OBI labeled as phone and then into a wall jack, then it does provide phone service to all of my jacks… can someone please tell me what the Line jack is for?  And yes I have totally disconnected my home from the phone company (cut the wire outside).  Is mine defective...

Thanks!

jimates:
The line jack is for an incoming POTS line (or equivalent) so that calls coming in on it can also be received to the phone port of the Obi. And the Obi can also route the incoming calls on the POTS line just like those configured on the SP services.

dta20502:
""If I plug the cord into the jack on the OBI labeled as phone and then into a wall jack, then it does provide phone service to all of my jacks…""

It does not work in my case! It ONLY work when I connected the cord into the jack on the OBI labeled as phone and then into a jack of a phone !!! Does that mean my home's wiring is bad!! Please advice...Thanks

-Dennis

jimates:
Only if you can confirm that the wiring worked correctly before.

MichiganTelephone:
Quote from: YellowFly on March 06, 2012, 03:43:58 pm

Hi,
My question is regarding the Line out on the OBi110.  I guess I must be missing something… or mine is defective.  Isn’t the only thing I need to do is plug the supplied phone cable into a wall phone jack and the other end into the OBI line jack and it should distribute the VOIP service throughout my home… Because it doesn’t… it doesn’t do anything.

That is correct.  You're not attempting to use the LINE jack in the way it was intended.  Assuming you have CORRECTLY disconnected your inside phone wiring from the telephone company's lines (see How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home), then to get your OBi110 to feed your inside wiring you need to connect your PHONE jack to your inside wiring, not the LINE jack.  BUT DON'T DO THIS UNLESS YOUR INSIDE WIRING IS COMPLETELY DISCONNECTED FROM THE PHONE COMPANY'S LINES, or you could destroy your OBi110.

The LINE jack is only used if you are still getting service from the phone company, or from another VoIP provider that requires you to use a VoIP adapter they provide, or you use another device that simulates a phone line and provides dial tone (such as a device that lets you use a regular phone with your cell phone service).  You can then feed that phone service, or the output of that device into the LINE jack of your OBi110, and connect your phone(s) to the phone jack and if a call comes in on either the line connected to the LINE jack or the VoIP/Google Voice service you have the OBi110 registered with, it will ring the connected phone(s).  But connecting the LINE jack to a dead phone line accomplishes absolutely nothing.

The rule is, if a line has voltage and/or dial tone on it, it goes to the LINE jack.  If a line is totally dead (completely disconnected from the phone company's lines) and you have only phones connected to it, then and only then can you connect it to the PHONE port.

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