Another wall jack question
dircom:
If someone installed a wiring cabinet, normal practice is to run a wire from the cabinet to the outside of your house, perhaps near the electric meter. (It would not have to be connected to anything, but most people who put in a wiring cabinet would run a wire to the outside of the house for future use)
count the number of wires in the wiring cabinet, and compare that to the number of jacks in the house (assuming the wiring all "home runs" i.e. from the jack directly to the wiring cabinet
MJINNY:
I should clarify that by "wiring cabinet" I mean the cabinet that has the circuit breakers in it. There does not seem to be any box or anything in the wiring closet that phone jack wires go into. The only box there is the circuit breaker box.
dircom:
An electrical panel, while containing wires, is not commonly referred to as a wiring cabinet
I would look for a wire going outside
If you are going to live there for a while, it won't hurt to open up a few jacks, and see how many wires are in each box.
If only one, then you have a connection point somewhere in/under/around your house
sailing:
Obi uses specialized integrated circuits. I am guessing but I would expect the Obi to tolerate a backfeed. I would also expect under a backfeed situation, the Obi line out wouldn't work correctly. You would have noise while talking or no voice at all. This situation would not affect the ability of the Obi to register. If the new one is working ok, then something went wrong with the first. (If its still under warrantee, you should get a replacement.)
Another thought is the connection to the router is faulty. If the signal between the obi and router is attenuated, you could get what you describe. It could also be, that the router resets the IP address of the Obi and the Obi looses registration for awhile. How far from the router is the Obi? You could fix the IP of the Obi but make sure it is outside of the DHCP range of the router. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't try it.) Since I cannot see what your setup is, I'm grasping at straws here.
MJINNY:
Thanks dircom...I will do that sometime, perhaps this weekend. In light of your explanation of an electrical panel vs. a wiring cabinet, I do not seem to have a wiring cabinet. There are three connections that go outside...1) the electric service that runs underneath the lawn into the electric panel, the incoming CATV wire, and an outside electrical conduit that services the outside electrical outlets. Thanks for your insight however...I'll take a look inside those jacks.
Sailing...thanks again! My call quality is and always has been excellent when making a call...the calls are crystal clear, no noise at all. There should be no issues with the router-Obi connection as they are right next to each other and I am using the obi supplied cable. The IP address issue may be a factor...maybe I should assign it a static IP.
It does not appear (as is the case with others on this forum) that I have an immediate issue...everything is working fine as of now. That being said I don't want to take up everyone's time. I just wanted to see what the issue may have been with my old one. I might actually see if a neighbor has one of these voltmeters and then I can know for sure. It could have actually been an issue with my VIOP provider (GV-yes it's still working). I looked on GV's website and didn't see any information about any outages...plus I was still able to use GV with my laptop perfectly fine. Who knows? A mystery!
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