Incoming landline calls delayed by 2 rings and does not connect live calls.
wvoc:
I wish :(. That is the problem with corporate monopolies. See PLDT owns the lines. That means only they can lay the wires and I cannot cut them or change them, even on my own property. If I do so, then PLDT can cancel my service. Most people just do what they want and then pay someone else to fix the lines they laid if there is a problem. Stupid me, I decided this was wrong and tried to do something about it. Now all they want is a tiny excuse to cut my service.
As they are the only telco who has wired the subdivision where my house is, if they cut service, I have no phone. To get the only other option, Globe, to come into the subdivision, the board of the subdivision has to approve it and either have a set number of households who will switch to Globe or pay the cost of wiring the entire place. I am working on that, but the problem is Globe landline is rather poor and their DSL service is crud so very few people want to switch.
I have considered going all mobile, but its a big hassle and the costs are high for data and they are ridiculously capped and slow. See, PLDT and Globe are the only options for mobile too. There will be another option for data, at some point, which is the cable monopoly whenever they decide they will spend the money to upgrade the lines to my subdivision.
Yup, its a corporate dream and a consumer nightmare. I would've been better off not to have caused trouble and then I could've just quietly did what I wanted with the phone lines. Sometimes I am an idiot.
Lavarock7:
Do you have a standard telco RJ-11 that you can start with?
If so then connect that to the OBI LINE port. Then run your own RJ-11 wire upstairs. Find a location for the DECT base that covers the parts of the house and position it there. Your Phone connection from the OBI plugs into that base.
If you need other phones connected, unplug them from the wall and put then between the OBI and the base. Then they all are using the OBI.
This way you have not changed any phone company wiring and they can't complain. Surely you can find and run some "satin cord" or your own 4 wires about the house? It should not be too expensive. If you buy 4 wire (or even 2 wire, make sure it is twisted and try to run it away from electric and noisy electronics, just in case.
Old touchtone phones were sensitive to polarity and if the polarity was reversed, the phone would not make tones. Swap the two wires and all works again. The Telephone company used to swap the wires when they wanted to disable dialing on an extension. Then we used to just flash the switchhook (9 times to dial a 9).
I believe that your ring voltage may be the same as mine, if so, it is 90 volts ac and will cause quite a jolt. Be careful and start hooking things up from the phone side and head towards the outside lines. I always use insulated test clips to connect to live phone lines until I can get everything working. It is easier to swap wires that way.
If you want to buy me a ticket, I'd be happy to do it for you, since I'm halfway theer already.
MrGadget:
Quote from: Rick on December 12, 2012, 06:01:31 am
You have things hooked up improperly. Here's what you should do:
1) Locate the OBi 110 near where the outside Telco line comes into your home, and feeds all the phone outlets.
2) Plug the outside line into the LINE port of your OBi 110.
3) Plug the line feeding the house outlets into the PHONE port of y our OBi 110.
4) Plug any phones, including the DECT base, into any phone outlets. Now, all phones will have use of both the outside line and anything setup on your OBi.
Rick,
This is not good advice using the latest design of the OBi110 units. Earlier versions had a PSTN relay to bypass the OBi in the event of a power failure, the latest devices do NOT have this relay and cause the phone service to completely fail for all downstream phones connected to the OBi. So, not only are you without power in your house, you don't have emergency phone service either.
Based upon this poorly redesigned Obi110, I suggest that you have access to a hardwired phone service for emergencies.
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