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| Thread ID: 145558 | 2017-12-01 04:26:00 | Telephone cables with fibre | Brucem (8688) | Press F1 |
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| 1442914 | 2017-12-01 21:10:00 | Ooops. Not to confuse the OP. Chorus guys either use a spare phone jack on the wall or they install a small white box that is usually called "master". They plug that to the router or the Chorus fiber white box depending on your ISP. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1442915 | 2017-12-03 23:39:00 | All my phone sockets work just fine. I have one phone jack point in each room incl the living and kitchen - total 5 phone points. No re-wiring done. | bk T (215) | ||
| 1442916 | 2017-12-04 02:20:00 | I have one phone jack point in each room incl the living and kitchen - total 5 phone points. No re-wiring done. You have a small house? I have 3 bdrms, bthrm, kitchen, lounge, dining, laundry. Thats 8. No doubt my jackpoints work fine too, I didn't rewire them either, as I have have no use for them, 2 Phones dasiy chained to the ONT now. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1442917 | 2017-12-04 02:48:00 | Thanks dugimodo and others. By the way, ours ISP is 2degrees, having been passed from iNet, to Snap, to 2degrees. I have rewired the jack point in the hall that takes the lead from the modem to 2 wires, but with the other two connections wired in so that pins 2 & 3 are wired together as are pins 4 & 5. In the loft junction box I have similarly wired pins 1,2 &3 on all banks with one wire, and pins 4,5 & 6 are wired with the other colour. After this the 2 portable phones are both working but the fixed phone (in the bedroom) will not work even when plugged directly to the modem. Can it be made to work? I wonder if the basic problem is that when I ordered the installation, I was not asked if we needed a modem (why wouldn't I?), when the installers arrived there was no modem I was told to ring and make an appointment for the technician to install it including the telephones. It arrived next day, and I installed it then, and had the computer working quickly,(and fast). I rang to make an appointment, which was never kept. Since then I have spent many happy hours working on it, including in the sweatbox that is our loft in this weather! |
Brucem (8688) | ||
| 1442918 | 2017-12-04 03:04:00 | Not sure what the deal is with your fixed phone, if you plug it into one of the jacks that works for the cordless phones does it work? And when you say it doesn't work, at all?, does it get dial tone? it's possible the ONT can't provide enough ring current but other than that it should work fine. Try reversing the wires to the opposite sides, occasionally some phones can be polarity sensitive. When I said all 3 wires on each side are connected what I may not have made clear is that's built into the jack. Each side has one single connection with 3 common connection points. The Idea is you connect 1 wire to each side on any connection point and you're done. You can use the other 2 connections to connect away to other jacks to make the wiring easier. In the old master / slave setup there were 6 individual connections and in NZ we only used 3 of them, the 3rd was for ringing and was abandoned because it doesn't play nice with broadband (it unbalances the line). Edit - just as an extra point, when only connecting 2 wires the convention is to use the middle 2 connections - 2 & 5 - for no other reason than that used to be the right wires on the old system. A 2W jack should have the "2W" logo on the bottom right corner, but that's not definite with all the different suppliers around these days. What you don't want to see is an "M" or "E" |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1442919 | 2017-12-04 04:35:00 | Thanks all, the problem is solved, I had plugged the fixed phone to the modem, and it wouldn't even work there. Because the latch on the plug to the wall was broken, I delved into my overflowing hobby cube of assorted wires, cables, plugs etc. found another lead, and replaced it: lo and behold it works! | Brucem (8688) | ||
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