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    My BIL was connected to the NBN (FTTP) yesterday and only the study phone works. The one in the bedroom and the one in the kitchen do not. They are wired phones and the cabling was placed when the house was built.

    What has to be done to make them all work?

    They are with Optarse.

    Vague but that is all I know ATM.
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    is the modem installed in the study as well ??

    if so you will find that the phone is plugged straight into
    the modem and not the wall socket.

    i will probably be wrong but if this is the case run a phone
    cable from the wall plug to the modem and see what happens.

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    As fandtm has said, the study phone is plugged into the modem and the rest are still connected to the "old' line. You'll need to run a cable from the back of the modem to each phone to make them work again. It would be easier to do away with the other, hardwired. phones and just install a wireless phone system with the base station plugged into the modem.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lsemmens View Post
    You'll need to run a cable from the back of the modem to each phone to make them work again.
    i am assuming that there was some "connection box" with the three phones in the original configuration. I would have thought that with some sort of "new connection box" plugged into the modem the phones would work.

    The installer did say that "new conduit" to each of the phones would be needed - a definite no-no. Why would that be given that there is existing cable?

    Quote Originally Posted by lsemmens View Post
    It would be easier to do away with the other, hardwired. phones and just install a wireless phone system with the base station plugged into the modem.
    I haven't floated that suggestion past them yet.

    EDIT: Looking at the modems supplied by Optarse there are two FXS ports. I assume the study phone is connected to one of them. Connect the other one to the existing wall socket somehow?

    EDIT2: If this is done what happens about the existing cable running to the street?

    EDIT3: Connecting the modem to the wall socket does not work.
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    Telstra supply a wireless system with their modem whereby a little box is plugged into the modem, then another box plugged into a power point with the base phone plugged into the box. I then run one other phone that is connected to my base phone wirelessly. Works great. No worrying about phones plugged into the wall sockets etc.
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    Telephone sockets are hard wired together in parallel, there is nothing complex in the setup. If they have set up a completely new line to the modem, they may have left the old cable intact, however, if they needed to pull a new lead in (which is most likely) then they would have removed the cable to the px (which was the point where the line from the street connects with the house.) If, then they re-used the cable run to the modem socket, then that cable, too would have been removed. It's not complex, but can get confusing if you did not wire it in the first place. Typically, when I was installing phones, and there was something unusual about the set up, it was quicker just to re-wire the whole lot.
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    Generally there is no plugging old phones parallel anymore.
    AFAIK the telcos normally don't give away VOIP gateways with analogue phone output(s) that DO allow parallel phone wiring using the old conduit.
    Usually they supply a single digital phone that goes in the NBN box and if you want more phones you have to pay for them and use different cable.

    So get that wireless setup like Keith mentioned (I haven't used something like that yet) or find a VOIP modem which is totally out of fashion and I use over a decade and can be a quite complicated to set up but has PSTN outputs for your old wiring and also good for FAXes and other old weird things.
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    I suggested the wireless phone system which got a luke warm reception. The comment was that they do not get many calls on the "landline" so no real hardship to answer it in the study. Not sure how long that will last ...
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    I am connected to the NBN and have four telephones connected via Sipura ATA's (analogue telephone adaptor).

    The Sipura units are not expensive.

    I got mine on eBay some years ago.

    From memory, this topic has been covered in the forum on a previous occasion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tristen View Post
    I am connected to the NBN and have four telephones connected via Sipura ATA's (analogue telephone adaptor).
    The problem with BILs setup is that the location of the "exchange" end of the phone cables is not known.

    I feel the simplest solution would be to go wireless.
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