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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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| 1467395 | 2020-05-01 10:38:00 | Our posts crossed. My response was to the earlier post. I think I understand what you are saying. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1467396 | 2020-05-01 10:46:00 | I think I am going to the house with the setup I talked about before, tomorrow or quite soon, to help make preparations to repair/replace a hot water cylinder that broke down during the lock-down period so I will look at the ONT and phone placement then, let you know as soon as I can , although perhaps the info will be useless if ISP's have different setups for ONTs and modems of different makes/varieties???? | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1467397 | 2020-05-01 19:25:00 | That would be great, thanks. I'm in no rush to get this all activated. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1467398 | 2020-05-01 21:23:00 | I think that the phone plugs into the ONT not the modem. Most ISPs yes it does. And you do nothing with the modem settings. Voyager is a bit weird, it does plug into the modem and you configure it. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1467399 | 2020-05-01 21:26:00 | OK, I can understand that. However my issue is that I have phones all over the house, with at least two base stations. Either buy a phone with multiple handsets (Then only one needs to be connected) or have the chorus guy wire your jackpoints back to the ont. They put that facility in whether you have that done or not, so you can always ask him to wire them. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1467400 | 2020-05-02 07:09:00 | Went to the place I said in my last post and the phone is definitely plugged into the ONT, so as piroska says different ISP's may have different gear which connects differently for VOIP. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1467401 | 2020-05-02 08:06:00 | Went to the place I said in my last post and the phone is definitely plugged into the ONT, so as piroska says different ISP's may have different gear which connects differently for VOIP. It's not the gear - it's how the ISP configure the landline service. Most have phone plugged to ONT. Voyager doesn't. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1467402 | 2020-05-02 09:46:00 | OK, this is what I think I know. As far as I can see, the wire from the ONT plugs into the router, and then the actual phones have to plug into ethernet. There also has to be an analog to digital converter box between each base station and the wall, or I ditch all the phones I have and get new digital phones. And of course I have two corded phones that won't work at all. And when I have a power cut I have no phone - apart from cellular. And I will also have a bunch of redundant telephone jackpoints around the house, and some ethernet outlets that will now not be available because they will be used by the phone. This whole UFB thing is a great advance for computer communications, but a massive step backwards for ordinary telephony, as far as I can see. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1467403 | 2020-05-02 21:21:00 | I will also have a bunch of redundant telephone jackpoints around the house, and some ethernet outlets that will now not be available because they will be used by the phone. . No. Keep your phones. Have the jackpoints wired to the ONT, instead of to the main feed from the old school copper landline. Use your phones in them as you did before. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1467404 | 2020-05-02 21:52:00 | No. Keep your phones. Have the jackpoints wired to the ONT, instead of to the main feed from the old school copper landline. Use your phones in them as you did before. Good idea. In my case I'm not sure how practical that actually is. How would I do it? I usually have an ethernet port and a phone port side by side (both RJ45). Could I just install a small splitter/switch in the wall where I want to combine them, or is it more complicated than that? |
Tony (4941) | ||
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