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Re: ooma Hub working fine ... cannot get scout connected
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:31 am
by WayneDsr
Yes it would, sorry I forgot you had landline.
Wayne
Re: ooma Hub working fine ... cannot get scout connected
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:35 am
by LRR
WayneDsr wrote:Yes it would, sorry I forgot you had landline.
Wayne
i guess at this point im going to wait and see what happens when my number is ported and i disconnect the line coming in from verizon to my 110block. im hoping any noise or current that may be interferring with omma/scout will be gone.
this thing is really driving me nuts and ive tried everything i can think of
Re: ooma Hub working fine ... cannot get scout connected
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:51 am
by WayneDsr
Yes, keep us posted.
Wayne
Re: ooma Hub working fine ... cannot get scout connected
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:14 pm
by Carl
LRR,
Since you have access to the panel, you could remove the incoming line from the panel and then the wires that go to the jack location you want your hub, then connect them (essentially moving your incoming line to one location in your apartment). Connect the jack to the splitter like I did and then run the other cable to the next closest phone jack to the hub. At the panel remove the wires that are coming from that second jack and move them to the main incoming section of the panel. Then you can connect scout to other locations in your apartment. It's not the most elegant solution but I think it would work temporarily until you get your number ported. Hope that made sense, basically you're just modifying what I did.
Re: ooma Hub working fine ... cannot get scout connected
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:39 pm
by LRR
Carl wrote:LRR,
Since you have access to the panel, you could remove the incoming line from the panel and then the wires that go to the jack location you want your hub, then connect them (essentially moving your incoming line to one location in your apartment). Connect the jack to the splitter like I did and then run the other cable to the next closest phone jack to the hub. At the panel remove the wires that are coming from that second jack and move them to the main incoming section of the panel. Then you can connect scout to other locations in your apartment. It's not the most elegant solution but I think it would work temporarily until you get your number ported. Hope that made sense, basically you're just modifying what I did.
Carl, i'm slightly confused. not sure when you say jack to the splitter if you mean at the wall jack or panel. the rest as well. sorry. remember i don't have RJ jacks at the 110 block, only punchdowns where the telco connects and then another 8 punchdown for the homeruns to the wall jacks. thanks again for the help
Re: ooma Hub working fine ... cannot get scout connected
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:33 am
by Carl
Just because you have punchdowns doesn't mean you can't change things. Pull off the wires needed and twist them together at the panel, wrap in electrical tape...I didn't say it would be elegant...this is just temporary.
1) You're bypassing your panel and extending your incoming telco line to the wall jack location where you have your hub. Plug the ooma splitter into the WALL jack of your hub. Connect the incoming telco line to one port of that splitter.
2) Connect the other port of the splitter to the next nearest wall jack in your apartment. Find the wires of this jack on your punchdown panel and remove them.
3) Move the wires you just removed to the location where incoming telco service goes.
Done.
Re: ooma Hub working fine ... cannot get scout connected
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:26 am
by LRR
Carl wrote:Just because you have punchdowns doesn't mean you can't change things. Pull off the wires needed and twist them together at the panel, wrap in electrical tape...I didn't say it would be elegant...this is just temporary.
1) You're bypassing your panel and extending your incoming telco line to the wall jack location where you have your hub. Plug the ooma splitter into the WALL jack of your hub. Connect the incoming telco line to one port of that splitter.
2) Connect the other port of the splitter to the next nearest wall jack in your apartment. Find the wires of this jack on your punchdown panel and remove them.i think this is where im getting confused. are you saying i need to connect this one to another jack in my apartment? run a wire on the floor across the room to the nearest one? so the splitter would connect to two totally different wall jacks.
3) Move the wires you just removed to the location where incoming telco service goes.
Done.
Re: ooma Hub working fine ... cannot get scout connected
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:05 pm
by Carl
Check out my link again and see how mine is set up. One cord of the hub's wall port splitter is for incoming telco and the other goes to your punchdown panel, I cannot say this any clearer.
Re: ooma Hub working fine ... cannot get scout connected
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:04 am
by anishpg
Carl wrote:Check out my link again and see how mine is set up. One cord of the hub's wall port splitter is for incoming telco and the other goes to your punchdown panel, I cannot say this any clearer.
The blue signal for scout( wall port) will only goes 40 feet. If your scout is more than fourty feet, it may not work
How I fixed mine
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:00 pm
by joey
I finally decided to hook my scout up through my phone lines and it took a few hours to resolve the problems. I thought I might contribute my experience here.
I have (for a few more days) naked DSL (aka DSL only, no voice). The house wiring was never used before for POTS. When I plugged in the Scout I got all 4 red lights. In may case there problem resulted in three separate issues, all courtesy of Qwest when they installed my DSL line.
1) The DMARK was wired with DSL on brown instead of blue.
2) The internal junction box had frogs (those capacitor looking clips) hooked up to reverse the house wiring to match the DMARK but reversed this to send DSL on the 1st pair to the jack where the DSL modem, and ooma hub, was.
3) The jack were the modem and hub were had a frog shorting brown and blue (i.e. a non-standard setup).
All this in a house that I build 5 years ago in which the phone system had never been used and only Qwest had touched to connect everything.
Anyway, life is dandy now with my scout working. Lessons learned:
1) Start at the DMARK!
2) Check the connection at the internal junction and tone the jacks you want to use
3) Pull the faceplate off the jacks you want to use to ensure they are wired correctly.
Joey