OBi 202 and Uverse
parkab0y:
I'm trying to install an OBi202. I've got it plugged into my phone line, router, and power cord as expected. But when I pick up the phone, I do not get a dial tone. Indeed, the screen on my Panasonic cordless phone says "Check tel line," suggesting that there is no dial tone.
Since the phones have been working fine just a second ago when plugged into my normal phone service, I'm sure it isn't them. I am wondering, however, if the fact that I have phone service through AT&T's Uverse could be affecting things. Do I need to cancel my Uverse service in order to have the OBi work properly?
I'm on my second OBi 202. Obihai sent me a new one when the first one appeared to be malfunctioning. However, I'm seeing some of the same behaviors, which makes me think it's something else that is interfering, and all I can think of is my Uverse at this point.
Shale:
I can remove the Ethernet cable from my OBi202, and I will continue to get dialtone when I check. If I dial, I get a network status voice message. Hang up, and listen again, I get dialtone with the Ethernet cable still unplugged.
So suspecting the OBi202, phone cord, or phone instrument would make sense. You already replaced the OBi202. Move on to the other pieces. Borrow a working phone and cord, and try them.
Lavarock7:
The 202 should not connect to any existing live telephone line. You should test it with a telephone, not a telephone line.
If you get it to work with a phone plugged into it, there is a procedure t omake it power all the phones in your house AFTER disconnecting the wires that leave the house and go t o the old phone company.
Then there are two ports on the back of the unit for phones. The PHONE 1 port actually can supply both lines to a phone but not all phones handle that ability properly, (HP Fax machines also don't). In that case, with a 1 line phone (most common) use a 2 wire phone cord and not a 4 wire cord and see if that works. Alternatively, use PHONE2 which only supplies one phone service to the device.
If the phone works in PHONE 2 but not in PHONE 1 when both are configured to supply the same service, try the 2 wire cable. A 2 wire cord has only 2 copper pins on each end (using the middle pair). A 4 wire cable uses the inner and next outer pair and has 4 pins on each end.
carl:
Another issue to keep in mind are the U verse gateways. Some of the 2 Wire gateways are extremely voip hostile and just about the only way to get it working was to configure the gateway in such a way that Obi was in DMZ.
neighbor:
I had this problem with my panasonic phone too. Initially everything worked fine but then about two days later after a rain the phone would not make a full ring sound, so I went down to the basement to play with the wires, and crossed some of them, and that check telephone line message came on, and so I think it is related to phone lines in the wall or basement that are not connected properly or somehow crossed. You would need to check all the outlet wiring. I then went back and found my rewiring mistake, and corrected it, then I disconnected the telephone wires that go outside the house to the old telephone service box, because I felt my real problem was a short in that service box outside because it happened after a rain. I also thought that if I could plug the obi into any telephone outlet in the house and it would ring on the other telephone outlets too because they were all connected, then what would happen if the lines to the outside were connected could it ring in someone else's house?
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