Fibre optic phone line?

[slofox]

Had the fibre installed today (Free. From money but not major pains in the arse...). Now my phone line is via the fibre cable as well.

I have two phones. Separate from each other. With old fashioned wiring I put a divider in the line and fed two phones from the one jackpoint.

How do you do it with a fibre feed. Same?

[Gremlin]

Depends on the provider (and the device they provide). As part of the company I work for we deliver connections, so I'm not too familiar with the other offerings.

Copper comes into your house and is wired inside your walls to outlets (commonly BT jacks) in a star (ideally) or chain (urgh) layout. These are all connected into the line (unless you've had a dedicated install done for broadband, which changes the termination slightly).

Fibre comes into your house to a single point, terminated into an ONT (Optical Network Terminal) and then you connect devices to it - including your modem. Now it depends on the provider. Often they liven the POTS port on the ONT up where you connect your phones in, or the phones connect to the modem.

For your question, you don't modify the fibre in any way. Any CPE (customer premises equipment) comes after the fibre...

Easiest option is to use wireless phones, where they connect to a base and that's then connected into the line.

[jonbuoy]

As Gremlin said they should give you an analogoue phone compatable Jack. The fibre modem
Shouldn't need touching. Make sure your getting a good deal on your phone calls. There are loads of options when you have reliable internet. I'm using Netelip but they are just one of many - you can buy voip routers pre configured which will also give you an old school two wire analogue phone line.

[caspernz]

Portable phone twinset. Master at the phone jack and the second/slave wherever you want to put it. We went thru this palaver a year or so ago.

[slofox]

Portable phone twinset. Master at the phone jack and the second/slave wherever you want to put it. We went thru this palaver a year or so ago.

I'd rather not shell out for yet another cordless phone...if I can work the pair I have now. I don't exactly have money falling out of the cupboards here y'know...

The phone works from the FO modem. I just need to split the line from the modem into two feeds for two phones. This is an old house that has only one jackpoint.


This whole fibre thing has been a right royal pain in the arse. Vodafone used the "free" installation as an excuse to change the terms of my home phone and broadband package. (Still in dispute over that one.) There were delays in the install that nobody bothered to tell me about. I took five hours off work to be available during the install that didn't happen. $100 lost wages. No communication bothered with by the install company (UFF). They blamed everybody except themselves. All this for a less than doubling of download speed.

On the plus side, the data rate is the same via cable or wifi now.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback all.

[Drew]

It's awesome for the rest of us, the more people who leave the copper network, the faster it gets.

You'll need a compatible phone system, or a switch set up by a geek.

[Akzle]

because if theres anything i ever thought i needed it was faster phonecalls


(sent over a data line, to be recorded, traced, split, reviewed with much, much ease. I'ma have to start every conversation with "bomb the whitehouse" now)

[AllanB]

Ha - had issues with people not turning up for my install as well. I ended up getting three months credit on the plan as a result of the delays - same as you I took a couple of half days off waiting ....... Fuckers need to learn that our time is just as important.

[slofox]

OK. Problem solved. Rummaged around in the heaps of old cables, plugs etc etc in the drawer and found enough cables with the right plugs on 'em to split the feed out of the modem and run separately to each phone. Works fine.

Now, once Vodafone enable inward calls, all will be good...

Thanks once again for the feedback all.

[Erelyes]

because if theres anything i ever thought i needed it was faster phonecalls

Maybe it'll get rid of that annoying 3-4 seconds silence that comes in before those wondeful South Asian fellows can tell me what's wrong with my PC.

[slofox]

because if theres anything i ever thought i needed it was faster phonecalls


(sent over a data line, to be recorded, traced, split, reviewed with much, much ease. I'ma have to start every conversation with "bomb the whitehouse" now)

I wouldn't mind faster phone calls if it means they finish earlier...

[AllanB]

I wouldn't mind faster phone calls if it means they finish earlier...

Still calling those sex lines?

[Mike.Gayner]

To my amazement, with today's technology not only are there still people paying for a phone line, but indeed people paying for TWO of them?! I mean, it's your money so whatever.

[BMWST?]

To my amazement, with today's technology not only are there still people paying for a phone line, but indeed people paying for TWO of them?! I mean, it's your money so whatever.

thechnology doesnt always help with comprehension does it.He hasnt got two phone lines.

[Moise]

Many of the ISPs are ripping off their customers on call pricing. VOIP can be much cheaper if you make a lot of calls, but then who does that any more?