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30th July 2016, 07:15 PM #1
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VOIP phone service and old fashioned rotary dial phones
Have recently got a fixed wireless NBN connection that has a VOIP phone as part of the deal. It works with the modern press button to dial telstra type phone.
Today I was trying to get one of those vintage rotary dialing number type ones from the 70s -80's to work on the modem. I could get the phone to ring when I called it but was unable to get a dial tone or ring out on it.
The old phone has got 3 wires going to the old fashioned socket, a red,white and blue.
The modern type of ethernet phone connectors have 4 wires, a red,black,green and yellow.
Wondering if anyone knows the right combination to get this to work or if it is just not possible?
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30th July 2016, 07:32 PM #2
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Modern phones are tone dial I.e. Each number is a different tone or sound. Old rotary dial phones are pulse dialling I.e. Each number is a number of pulses on the phone line.
Phones normally use 2 wires only.
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30th July 2016, 07:45 PM #3
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That may be true Pete 57 however I would bet my bottom dollar someone knows how to get the old ones working on the modern system.
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30th July 2016, 09:04 PM #4
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Theres a high chance your pulse dial phone will work if plugged straight into a Telstra network but it won't work via a VOIP system.
Originally Posted by artful bodger
Whatever note you blow youre never more than a semitone away from the correct one....(Miles Davis)
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30th July 2016, 10:18 PM #5
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If your phone is from Telstra in the 80's it was probably push button and has a switch on the base to swap between pulse and tone dialing. If it is a real dial phone it is probably older and is pulse only. There are pulse to tone converters available to use old pulse only phones on tone only systems.
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30th July 2016, 10:24 PM #6
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BTW. There also used to be handheld tone devices you could hold to the mouthpiece to do the dialing, or you can do it on your PC. Online Tone Generator - A free and simple way to generate DTMF dial tones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXZMgHKhefk
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30th July 2016, 10:28 PM #7
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from https://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/...ng/td-p/151858
Pulse dialing still works if you are on the copper network but not if you're on fibre or HFC, i.e. VOIP
You would be able to get a pulse dialing phone to work with a "black box" that converts the dial pulses into tones -- but remember pulse phones have no star or hash keys.regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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