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Re: Purefibre Home Phone daisy chaining - max number of phones?
Good informative discussion, Bill and Polecat. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience.
6 years ago Place Home Services
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Re: Purefibre Home Phone daisy chaining - max number of phones?
Thanks for this information on the REN. On the single old wired TT phone I have, I couldn't find a REN stated anywhere (and I didn't attempt to look on the net for specs for that specific device). We'll only use two of the 6 locations that I mentioned in a previous post, but, historically, people seem to want a phone in many rooms, including bedrooms. I'll be running CAT5e for the data and phone lines, so that if a future owner wants, they can re-purpose the phone lines for something else. Thanks again, BillTelusCust, for this great information.
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Re: Purefibre Home Phone daisy chaining - max number of phones?
Hi Polecat. Thanks for responding so quickly. And thanks for letting me know what works on your line. Just for clarity, it sounds like your wired phones worked during the power outage because your fibre ONT was on UPS power. If the ONT wasn't getting power, the wired phones would be as dead as the data line. Is that right? Thanks again.
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Purefibre Home Phone daisy chaining - max number of phones?
Hello. Can anyone say what the so-called ringer equivalency is for the Telus Purefibre Home Phone lines? That would be the number of hard wired phones that can be daisy chained before they can't get enough current through the single line to ring. I suppose it depends partly on the phone models used, but I believe telephone companies rate their lines for this. I'm hoping to install 6 RJ11 jacks in different locations in my house on a single line. Thanks for any help.
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Re: Structured cabling for fibre and home phone
Hi NFtoBC, Thanks for your advice on this. Although we don't have (or want) TV, I'll consider running cable for it to 2 or 3 locations for future owners of this house. Have to see how the budget is!
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Re: Structured cabling for fibre and home phone
Interesting! I'll start strategizing my wiring plan with simple parallel connections in mind. Any thoughts about the quality of the cable I should run to the room jacks, perhaps with any kind of future-proofing to consider? Are there any standards that I would be wise to adhere to. In old houses that I've added phone line locations to, the red and green wires in the 4 wire solid copper cable were the relevant ones. The Telus tech who did our temporary installation ran cat5e cable from the J-box that connects with POTS1 of the ONT to the main floor phone jack, and used the blue and white wires of the cat5e. Thanks again for your help. It's so nice to to have this resource, and I thank Telus for hosting this forum.
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Re: Structured cabling for fibre and home phone
Hi Polecat, Thanks for mentioning that these fibre-based phones won't work without power. That makes sense, now that I think about it. I'll put the ONT and other components on a UPS. Regarding putting images in these posts: I started out trying to use the "insert photos" icon at the top of each new post. That brought up a drag and drop window that never seemed to finish uploading --- like it was caught in an endless loop. So I wondered what would happen if I dragged the image files right into the post, and that seemed to work. I hope that you (and others) can see the images. Please let me know if they're not showing up in the post. Again, thanks for your input.
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Re: Structured cabling for fibre and home phone
Thanks for your post, NFtoBC. So treating the phone end of this setup just like the old copper based systems would work fine. Is this the most elegant way to go about this? Are there other possibilities? I'm really just curious and want to know more about this type of phone through fibre. Thanks again for your input. I appreciate it very much.
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Re: Structured cabling for fibre and home phone
Thank you, Polecat. Sounds like where you are is a bit challenged for high speed telecom services. Until recently, I lived for 25 years in a remote part of BC; so I’m familiar with the fun and games of rural internet and phone. Always made life interesting! We are in the city now, and are on the Telus 300/300 plan with home phone. The phone definitely comes through the fibre line. Please have a look at the two images below. One is a photo of our current temporary installation, and the other show the scheme I’m considering (with the phone question mark). The phone cable comes from the POTS1 port on the ONT, changes from RJ-11 cable to cat5 in a white small j-box, and then exits the house through the same hole the fibre entered. It then climbs up the exterior wall and into house on the main floor to supply a single RJ-11 jack. Hopefully, that fills in the picture a bit more clearly. Thanks again for your thoughts.
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Structured cabling for fibre and home phone
Hello. I’m doing a full basement reno in our 70 year old house, so all the walls and ceilings are open for excellent access for wiring. We plan to install ethernet cabling and phone lines to several locations in the basement and on the main floor. Our current Telus account includes Purefibre internet and Home Phone. So I’m drawing up a plan to install a modest structured cabling system, including rack mounted power strip, unmanaged switch, and patch panel. I’m pretty clear on how to deal with the internet end of things, but I’m asking for guidance on how to work the Home Phone into this scheme. Can the phone lines be switched? Or can a hub work? Or should they just be hard wired as a daisy chain? Or what? I wanted to attached a block diagram of my plan to this point, but there seems to be a problem with photo uploads, currently. The internet side of things looks like: Purefibre -> ONT, ONT Data 1 -> T3200M Wan, T3200M Lan 1 -> Switch -> Patch Panel -> house locations. The phone setup is: ONT POTS1 -> J-box -> current RJ-11 jack As you can tell, I am not a telecom pro. Any suggestions for a workable approach for the phone would be very welcome. Thanks very much for any input.
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