Phone problem

[simms]

I'm living in residence in Toronto and I wanted to bring my 2.4GHZ Panasonic Cordless Phone to replace the Nortel Networks one they supplied. Both phones use a normal phone line with two metal things in them (DSL uses 4 of the metal tabs) and I thought it would be a simple switch.

I plug in my 2.4 and all I hear is static, but when I plug in the Nortel I get a dialtone - anyone heard of this before? Maybe the two metal tabs have been crossed at the line? I tried using the phone lines from the Nortel phone, but I still get static. I know the phone works because I've used it for years at home.

So is there a special cable I need to switch the connections over? Or WTH is the problem?

--Simon

 

[simms]

Anyone? I'll try moving this to GH.

 

[Bootprint]

They might be using a digital system, and your phone is probably analog.

 

[Ness]

If the phone has not charged you usually get static, if you get anything at all. Is it a soft static or a loud static?

 

[simms]

full charge.. so i don't know what's wrong.

To my knowledge both are on an analog system, how would I determine if it's analog or digital? Both phone prongs have 2 metal tabs, same size...

 

[KLin]

It sounds like they have a PBX installed, and you more than likely have a digital port. To use any analog phone line, you would need a single line port. Digital ports need digital phones that are made by the manufacturer of the PBX, Nortel Networks in your case.

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: KLin
It sounds like they have a PBX installed, and you more than likely have a digital port. To use any analog phone line, you would need a single line port. Digital ports need digital phones that are made by the manufacturer of the PBX, Nortel Networks in your case.

Probably the winnar. I've never seen a nortel mass-marketed analog phone, so that further supports this as the explanation.

 

[loup garou]

Definitely a digital system.