[HOW TO] D-Link DIR-655 setup with OBi110?
SkOrPn:
Ok connecting my OBi directly to my modem appears to be a very bad thing to do. I unplugged the modem for a few minutes and the OBi, then plugged in the modem and allowed it to do its thing and get its nice led's all solid, then i plugged the OBi to it and turned it on and then the modems LED imediately turned red and the phone light on the OBi never turned on at all. Dialling **9 222 222 222 told me I had no service. The modems activity led turns red and just blinks and never gets its blue color back, and this last try caused my Modem to take a dump for about 15 minutes. After putting every thing back the way it way I no longer had any service at all, and I could no longer connect to the Modems configuration pages, then suddenly after a long wait and thinking I really screwed up my expensive modem, the Internet came back, lol. Is their an incompatibility with the Surfboard SB6120? Do I need to set the OBi back to its out of box defaults or something? Connected directly to the Modem the OBi never receives a steady phone light, it just stays turned off.
Any ideas?
RonR:
An OBi ought to be happy connected directly to a Motorola SB6120. They're both normal Ethernet devices and are made to be connected to each other. When going from the OBi back to the router, you would have to power cycle both devices again.
I would recommend having both devices powered off. Plug the OBi into the SB6120. Power up the SB6120. Once it acquires block-sync, power up the OBi. Same procedure when going back to the router.
SkOrPn:
Hmm, ok then my SB6120 must not be on the compatibility list or something, I did just exactly that and it dont work. I guess Ill try my own ethernet cables
Is there a way to put the OBi back to its out-of-box settings and then delete the device from my OBiTalk dashboard? If so, I could use the modems configuration page to set it back to its defaults (even though that does nothing Im sure), and then connect it to the OBi, and start from scratch I guess. Thanks for your help with this by the way.
RonR:
You can connect directly to the OBi from your LAN using the IP address reported by dialing ***1. From there you can restore factory defaults. You can also use the reset button on the bottom of the OBi. Hold it down until the OBi resets. You can also dial ***81 from the phone to restore factory defaults.
SkOrPn:
Ok well I got it to work with the modem. Tried a different location entirely and used some high quality Cat5 I had lying around and moved the OBi to a location 10 ft away from my router and computer. Connected it directly to the modem and then commenced to resetting the device using the button on the bottom. I waited for the light to turn green and did not let go until I saw it turn green again which now I think was wrong. But, this time it had service and the echo test sounded better, not much better but it did sound better to me *I think*. Then I went to configure it for service and realized theres no way to do that without Internet, so here I am back on the router, lol. This time around I keep seeing the OBi turn off and back on sporadically, but the light on the dashboard is still green.
EDIT: OK, I just got a call in the middle of this post and well it was excellent quality for an entire hour, every bit as good as the landlines around here. During the call I did notice a half second moment when I heard a echo of myself, but other than that it was superb. I even kept asking her if she was still there because it was so quiet when she wasnt talking, lol, and she would say yeah I'm still hear. She also said that I was crystal clear the entire time, so Im really happy about that. Even the volume from the phone was much better than MagicJack, so I sure hope Google doesn't turn this into some sort of high monthly cost like Vonage. Going to give this a few days as-is and see how it performs during a bout with my Netflix streaming.
For now its my bed time, I should sleep well knowing this works as good as it does. ;D
Thanks
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