What's the best way to wire the Obi110 into a home's existing phone lines?

[ajm258]

What's the best way to wire the Obi110 into a home's existing phone lines? So that it provides phone service to any phone connected to the home's phone jacks?

[RevKev]

It's really quite simple. The line coming in to your house from your telco plugs into the "Line" port of the OBi110. Your internal phone wiring plugs into the "Phone" port. If you do nothing else you should be able to make calls just as you always have.

Given that you currently have:

line if from telco --->|splitter|---> in-house wiring

You want the OBi110 between the telco and the splitter.

line from telco --->|Line In -Obi110- Phone|--->|splitter|---> in-house wiring

[ajm258]

Where can I find the 'The line coming in to your house from your telco' ?

[Ostracus]

Where can I find the 'The line coming in to your house from your telco' ?

For houses in the US it's usually a gray box mounted on the outside.

[ajm258]

awesome, thanks for the pic!

[bitstopjoe]

 What if his siding is a different color? hehehehe

Joe Sica

[kf7kip]

Then he is out of luck. JK
With mine I have a gang block inside my house (But it is a custom job I Rewired my whole house about 2 years ago I needed to use 10 phone lines for about 6 months)
also if you are in a apartment you might be jest out of luck. but you can check to see if a unused pair is powered if it is not then you should check to see if it is connected at the main junction box. if it is you might be able to use that un used pair to wire you apartment. 
If not you are out of luck agen NO LOVE FOR YOU.

[s.port]

It's really quite simple. The line coming in to your house from your telco plugs into the "Line" port of the OBi110. Your internal phone wiring plugs into the "Phone" port. If you do nothing else you should be able to make calls just as you always have.

I'm unable to find where the line coming into my house goes to. But lets suppose I do find the line coming into my house if it's not near my PC, it wouldn't be practical for me to run 50 feet of cord to reach my router, therefore I wouldn't be able to use all the phone jacks in my house? I supose the part that has me confused is finding the line coming into my house. I do have a grey box as I just canceled my home phone service through Comcast.

[RevKev]

If you've cancelled your home phone service, don't worry about the line coming in, it's dead. You should be able to plug the PHONE port of your OBi into any phone jack and the rest of the jacks in the house will be connected to it.

[RonR]

If you've cancelled your home phone service, don't worry about the line coming in, it's dead. You should be able to plug the PHONE port of your OBi into any phone jack and the rest of the jacks in the house will be connected to it.

That's very bad advice.  Many states have laws that dictate PSTN lines remaining hot with 911 service available.  Connecting a hot PSTN line to the OBi PHONE Port can potentially damage it.

[Ostracus]

http://mi-telecom.org/distribute.html aka "The Original How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home"

[kf7kip]

If you've cancelled your home phone service, don't worry about the line coming in, it's dead. You should be able to plug the PHONE port of your OBi into any phone jack and the rest of the jacks in the house will be connected to it.

That's very bad advice.  Many states have laws that dictate PSTN lines remaining hot with 911 service available.  Connecting a hot PSTN line to the OBi PHONE Port can potentially damage it.

Ok yes that is tru it is bad advice for most people.  I would say before you do it check to see if it is hot or not. my house with all the custom stuff done to it. I know myne are cold.  I had a TREE take out the main feed to the house The only line to my house now is the power feed.  (My internet is microwave connection not sattlelight ) the other thing you could do is re wire the jack to use line 2 as the primery line and do the same for the rooms you would like to use the OBI on

[s.port]

Ok yes that is tru it is bad advice for most people.  I would say before you do it check to see if it is hot or not. my house with all the custom stuff done to it. I know myne are cold.  I had a TREE take out the main feed to the house The only line to my house now is the power feed.  (My internet is microwave connection not sattlelight ) the other thing you could do is re wire the jack to use line 2 as the primery line and do the same for the rooms you would like to use the OBI on
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How could I test it to see if it's hot? My previous home phone was through Comcast which was VOIP. They canceled it over the phone. nobody actually cam out to disconect anything. I just unplugged and returned their VOIP modem.

With the Comcast VOIP modem, It had a spot on the Modem for "line" and when I plugged that into the phone jack it worked throughout the house. But when I plug the phone jack to the obi spot for "line" it doesn't have the same effect.

[RevKev]

The Comcast "voip modem" is the ATA - which is the line in to your house, in this case. If it has been disconnected from your internal wiring, then the line is dead. For Comcast to continue to provide 911 service, the ATA would have to remain in place.

The Comcast ATA most likely had a cable line coming into it and a phone line coming out. That phone line would go to the rest of your house. What was the phone line coming out of the Comcast ATA plugged into (or possible hard-wired to)? You want to replace the Comcast ATA with the OBi so that the line coming out of the OBI PHONE port plugs into the same thing the line coming out of the Comcast ATA did.

[dvbhardware]

I tied my 100 directly into my 66 blocks on the 2nd line and can tie in on any phone jack in the house

[Ostracus]

I tied my 100 directly into my 66 blocks on the 2nd line and can tie in on any phone jack in the house

Throw in a UPS then you'll have something.

[s.port]

Ok yes that is tru it is bad advice for most people.  I would say before you do it check to see if it is hot or not. my house with all the custom stuff done to it. I know myne are cold.  I had a TREE take out the main feed to the house The only line to my house now is the power feed.  (My internet is microwave connection not sattlelight ) the other thing you could do is re wire the jack to use line 2 as the primery line and do the same for the rooms you would like to use the OBI on
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Doesn't work at all if I plug the cord from the jack directly to "phone" on the Obi. It works fine plugging the phone into "phone" on the Obi. I guess the only solution is to run cord from the grey box on the side of my house? Comcast never did anything with my box (as it was VOIP) and I bought the house new so I figured mine were cold, but that idea didn't work.

[kf7kip]

Well there are 2 way one is FREE (but is a little pain full)
Free way plug in a phone cord and lick it (3 volts ) it will sting a little but you will know.  The other way would be to probe the line with a multi meter to check for voltage.  I have done both methods.  I kida like the tung thing but then agen I'm a little strang

[Ostracus]

Or use something like this.

[kf7kip]

tru that works too. I jest do not like single use items and I still prefer using my tung.