Using Existing Home Phone Jacks
efiniti:
I searched the forum and found this post
https://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=1981.20
And it helped me understand a bit. Here's what my phone box looks like in my garage.
http://imgur.com/KmsNR
Now when I opened the box there was no phone line connected to that phone jack that you see.
Am I right in that all I would have to do is connect a phone line from the PORT jack of the Obitalk 110 into that phone jack in the phone box and then I'll be able to use the phone service with any phone connected in the house?
chicobiker:
The way I read the post you referred to is that he had disconnected the phone company line from his internal house wiring. If that is what you have then I would think that your internal house phone wiring, being all tied together, would just act as a single phone line. If this is true then you would plug your obi into the wall using the phone port rather than the line port on your obi. Then every phone in your house should have use of the obi. At least that is the way I see it.
Casey
MichiganTelephone:
You don't need to do anything in that box as long as that phone plug (on the upper right hand side of the box) stays UNplugged. I would personally wrap a piece of electrical tape (or some other tape with insulating qualities; even scotch tape would do in a pinch) around that plug so no one can accidentally plug it into the jack.
Then plus a phone into any jack in your home and the line should be totally dead (if you blow into the mouthpiece or press a touch tone button you should not hear ANYTHING). If it's truly dead, you should be able to connect the PHONE port of your Obihai device to that jack (using a standard phone cord) and that should provide dial tone to all the other jacks in your home. The only reason that would not be true is if there was at one time a second line coming into your some and one or more of the jacks are wired to use the second pair — in that case you may need to rewire those jack(s) to use the primary pair (red and green, or blue and white with blue stripe) — or one of the wires got damaged or cut somewhere.
See http://mi-telecom.org/distribute.html for much more information on the subject (probably more than you'll ever want to know).
efiniti:
Thanks, I'll take a read at that link.
Thing is, the phone plug was already unplugged when I opened the phone box.
However, I am using AT&T's home phone service at the moment.
So I have service with every jack in my house, its with AT&T, even though the phone plug in the phone box is unplugged.
Side note, I plugged in a spare phone to that phone plug in the phone box and tried to dial my cell phone. It came up as a different number than my normal home number, same area code. Strange?
efiniti:
Yeah something else must be afoot. After reading the tutorial it seems all that's necessary is to unplug the phone ports, but mine was already like that and my telephone system works just fine.
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