Connecting OBI100 to home telephone distribution in basement - How?
CoalMinerRetired:
Quote from: vskatusa on December 07, 2012, 02:13:45 pm
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This is the one I've used to read up on the how tos and don't dos: How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home
Wow too much detail.....Basically from my "scimming" the article here is "to do list":
Disconnect the Telephone line from the telephone companyPlug in a old fashioned telephone into a plug and make sure you do not hear any dial tonePlug the OBI100 to ANY telephone line and connect to the network
Have I got the above right?
You did ask for gotchas, best practices and can two people call at the same time. So do you want the three sentence summary, or a full explanation? You can't have it both ways.
In addition to your summary above, add lightning arrestors, network interface points (your point #1), ringer equivalents, two line service (hint: one of several ways to facilitate 'two people call at the same time'). I think the point to be taken here is the traditional landline telco "plant" was very well designed and installed, the gold standard as they say. How it all works is not rocket science, but you do need to know a few pointers to set yourself up for years and years of uninterrupted service.
vskatusa:
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two line service (hint: one of several ways to facilitate 'two people call at the same time')
Can you kindly throw some light on this topic? Yes full explanation is fine:-)
Ostracus:
An Obi202 with Phone 1, and Phone 2.
CoalMinerRetired:
Quote from: Ostracus on December 07, 2012, 06:08:21 pm
An Obi202 with Phone 1, and Phone 2.
What he said above. Plus using **1 (or **2, **3, **4) for outgoing calls, since GV supports two simultaneous calls. For inbound calls, configure CallForwardOnBusyEnable and CallForwardOnBusyNumber (I think you can use ph/ph1 or ph2 for this), plus disable Call Waiting via star code *57, (and enable it one call at a time via *59).
You'll want to use two-line cabling of course (line 1: usually blue and white with blue stripe pair. Line 2: usually placed on the orange and white with orange stripe, see the links) with a two line phone, like the Uniden models mentioned on here a lot.
There's no way to have two simultaneous calls occur on one physical phone line, when caller 1 picks up line 1 (off hook) and all other phones connected to line 1 are also off hook. Which means a second call must originate from or ring into a second physical line, hence an Obi202. As mentioned, this does nor mean GV is limited to one call at time.
If you have one GV number, you'd configure the Obi202 with one SP, your GV on SP1. You could then modify the physical phone port configurations such that outbound calls for both physical phone ports go to GV on SP1. At the moment I'm not sure what you'd do to ph2 outbound call route when there's no SP associated with it. Will have to think about that detail.
vskatusa:
Ok to make it simple.... I am ok with one phone (no simultaneous) calls.
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