using home phone line?
Rick:
Ok, if no POTS, then the 100 or the 202 will do just fine.
When you inspect the lines, you should be able to determine how they are powering the internal phone line. I've not had Uverse, but it's VoIP, so their modem should be then feeding the house phone circuits. Therefore, you should be able to feed the house phone circuits with the OBi in the same manner. You should find in the wiring how they isolated the Uverse signal from outside to the modem, and all should then make some sense.
It sounds like you only have 1 phone in the house? Many have a portable base and multiple phones. We have 4, all off one base. Then a corded phone in the basement in case we have no electricity, although that was before VoIP so it's basically useless in an outage too.
DougL:
Yes, I was planning on the Obi100.
UVerse uses the house phone line, because my UVerse modem/router is just plugged into a standard phone connector socket.
I have a couple of phones in the house, but only one portable one, and that one is a single phone with a single base and charger.
At best, assuming a 4-conductor line, I'm thinking that I just put a duplex plug in the phone port near the UVerse modem, plug the modem into one of those, plug the Obi input into the modem/router, and the Obi output into the second phone connector instead of a phone. The UVerse modem and the Obi phone should know which wires they need. That way, in principle, I should have a dial tone from any phone in the house. That must have been how it worked for the few days when UVerse and POTS were sharing the same line.
Rick:
Quote from: DougL on November 20, 2012, 10:10:32 am
Yes, I was planning on the Obi100.
UVerse uses the house phone line, because my UVerse modem/router is just plugged into a standard phone connector socket.
I have a couple of phones in the house, but only one portable one, and that one is a single phone with a single base and charger.
At best, assuming a 4-conductor line, I'm thinking that I just put a duplex plug in the phone port near the UVerse modem, plug the modem into one of those, plug the Obi input into the modem/router, and the Obi output into the second phone connector instead of a phone. The UVerse modem and the Obi phone should know which wires they need. That way, in principle, I should have a dial tone from any phone in the house. That must have been how it worked for the few days when UVerse and POTS were sharing the same line.
I agree with your reasoning that they've already split the lines into DSL (UVerse) and powering the house phones. What is your current phone plugged into? A phone jack other than that which the UVerse modem is plugged into?
You will need to examine wiring, because what you can't do is plug in a powered phone/DSL line to the PHONE port of an OBi. That usually causes damage.
DougL:
Well, there is no "current phone". As I said, for a few days before the POTS was disconnected, I had both POTS and UVerse. At that time, the phone (in the dining room) was connected to a separate connector than was the UVerse modem (in the living room). That phone worked.
Ah, that's important about not plugging an Obi phone connector into a powered DSL line. That is, the Obi phone connector has to just go to a phone. Not entirely clear how I'm supposed to establish what's safe to plug the Obi phone line into. I mean, how do I tell who is using what wires in what I'm assuming is a 4-wire phone cable?
Now, long ago, I did run an Ethernet cable from the living room area where I have the UVerse modem/router, to within six feet of where I'd like to have the main phone live in the dining room. So my backup plan is just to put the Obi next to the phone in the dining room and not have any other phones in the house. It's six feet of cable I'd rather not have laying around,
though.
I can see that having a portable phone system with multiple handsets and chargers, but one base station, would make this all pretty straightforward.
DougL:
OK, I checked the box where the phone line connects to the house. There are four cables that come out of it and go into the house. On three of those four cables, the yellow&black are not connected, but are wrapped around the sheath. Hard to see on the fourth. So that suggests that for most, if not all the phone lines going into the house, it's just ONE OR THE OTHER. UVerse, or phone.
That leaves me a bit puzzled about how one phone handset in the house was, for a few days, working with UVerse.
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