What sort of PBX is at your office? For phones using BT connector use pins 2 and 5.
On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 14:18, C. Falconer wrote: > Nope - the same physical analogue phone works fine on a normal home phone > connection, or on a PABX extension. 80% of the extensions here have phones > which arecheap warehouse specials. > > I think part of my problem was a DSL filter that was getting in the wrong > way. Anyone want to buy a filter? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 9 September 2004 2:15 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] Phone over data cable - howto? > > > On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:24, you wrote: > > Oooo! You're quick! > > > > Rephrase the question... Whats the difference between a pair coming > > out of a PABX and a pair coming out of the telco demarcation point in > > a house? > > > > Err, sorry. I don't know, and I didn't mean to be quite so glib. I sort > of assumed that PABX phones were different in general, often because they > are tied to specific functions of the company exchange. I did a quick > Google, but nothing showed up. Maybe there's no difference. Maybe > something else about your experiments prevented it working. > > It could be you have a digital phone, which of course won't work on an > analogue line. > > Andy >
