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| Thread ID: 148895 | 2020-03-14 20:45:00 | Fibre getting connected (Hooray!) - questions | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 1467385 | 2020-05-01 05:45:00 | I've just spoken to Actrix/Voyager, and it looks like I am going to have to get a new router after all. I want to keep my landline, so I need phone ports on the router, and the Draytek doesn't have them. They are offering a Huawei HG659 for $10/month or $225 outright. My inclination is to pay upfront, as it will pay for itself in a couple of years, and routers tend top be pretty reliable I think. I could buy a different one, but I think the comfort of having one that is fully supported by Actrix is probably worth something. Any opinions? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1467386 | 2020-05-01 06:27:00 | I'm going to do the same here. I am in the process of getting fibre hooked up via Voyager/UltraFastFibre and I went with the upfront purchase of the HG659 router as well. It's in limbo though as I don't know if they have got permission(s) from other parties yet. I'm in a multi-dwelling unit (three of us in one block) so that complicates things as well. Covid-19 obviously has caused delays too. I'll phone them early next week to see how things are progressing. I've found Voyager's help support top notch so far. | Rod J (451) | ||
| 1467387 | 2020-05-01 06:39:00 | I've found Voyager's help support top notch so far.Me too, ever since I've been with them (Actrix). I've never had to wait very long, and you actually get to talk to someone who at least appears to know what they are talking about. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1467388 | 2020-05-01 07:08:00 | I've just spoken to Actrix/Voyager, and it looks like I am going to have to get a new router after all . Ah Voyager . My brother is with them, he was paying the $10 when we came here . I swapped my old Spark modem over instead - phone instructions are on Voyagers website, not hard to set up . . . . and now he saves the $10 a month . Buy an old one off Trademe . . . . we have had zero issues with the modem, phone or net since . |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1467389 | 2020-05-01 07:48:00 | I think that the phone plugs into the ONT not the modem. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1467390 | 2020-05-01 09:42:00 | I think that the phone plugs into the ONT not the modem.This is something I'm not at all sure about. There are two wires coming out of the ONT. One has an RJ-11, presumably for the phone, and the other is RJ-45 for the LAN. After having had a very quick glance at the HG659 setup guide, it says they both plug into the router. What I don't understand yet is how that phone signal gets to the various cordless phones I have spread through the house. I know its all VOIP, but that's as far as it goes. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1467391 | 2020-05-01 10:25:00 | I set up a friend of mine broadband and VOIP phone, I knew next to nothing but I am pretty sure that I plugged the base-station of the cordless phone into the ONT and it has been working ever since, about 2 years ago or so, I could be wrong but that is what I remember doing. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1467392 | 2020-05-01 10:31:00 | If you have a lot of cordless phones, do they all work off the same base-station or all have separate base-stations? If so they should just be connected like one would onto the incoming phone line but instead it would be to the ONT phone receptacle. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1467393 | 2020-05-01 10:32:00 | OK, I can understand that. However my issue is that I have phones all over the house, with at least two base stations. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1467394 | 2020-05-01 10:37:00 | But they all must have been connected to phone lines to work before so just plug the end connection/s into the correct receptacle on the ONT presuming that what I first said is the correct way for your ISP ONT and modem. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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