How do I connect my existing phones? null

The Telo has one conventional phone jack in the back. For multiple extensions, it's best to use one base phone with as many wireless extensions as desired (up to the limit of your base phone). We use an AT&T base that allows up to 11 extensions. In theory, a splitter can be used to plug in multiple phones/base units, but the higher power draw can compromise performance of the Ooma service.

That depends on the phone system or installation you have at home. If you have wireless phones, just connect the base unit to the Telo phone jack and power the wireless phone base unit. If the Telo unit has a solid blue light, you will hear the dialt tone (produced by the Telo unit) in any of the wireless unit that are part of your wireless phone system. If you have a land line and regular phone jacks throughout the home, you will need to make a connection using a telephone cord between one of the phone jacks and the Telo unit. The phone cord will be similar to the one you may have now connected between a regular phone and the phone jack in the wall. The idea is to use one of the jacks and the wiring throughout the home to transfer the Telo signal to all the other phone jacks throughout the home. Also if you do not have a land line, but have a tlephone demarc box on the exterior of your home, you may want to disconnect the line that comes from the street (or utility pole if overhead) from your telephone home wiring so there may not be any interferance orother problems caused by the telephone wiring and or servic from the TELCO company. If you need more information, call me at 719 240-0961 Jaime E. Loza Schrock Electric, Inc.

There is a standard phone jack in the back of the device. Just plug your existing land-line phone in and you are good to go.

Plug into the telo. If you have a phone in a different room, you will need the linx.

The basic Ooma Telo has a standard telephone jack, into which you plug the telephone line that connects to your home phone, or to your home phone wiring (after you've disconnected your home phone wiring from the telephone companies box).

You must first disconnect your in-home phone line(s) from the telephone company interconnection board (the terminal board where the in-home lines are connected to the incoming phone company cable). If more than one in-home line is connected at the board, make sure to connect the lines together, once they are removed from the board. Then simply plug the Ooma Telo into any one of the in-home phone jacks. If you want to have a phone at the same location, plug a splitter into the Telo output jack. This procedure is explained in detail in the operating manual and on the website.

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The Telo has one conventional phone jack in the back. For multiple extensions, it's best to use one base phone with as many wireless extensions as desired (up to the limit of your base phone). We use an AT&T base that allows up to 11 extensions. In theory, a splitter can be used to plug in multiple phones/base units, but the higher power draw can compromise performance of the Ooma service.
Answered by RokuNewbie 3 years ago
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That depends on the phone system or installation you have at home. If you have wireless phones, just connect the base unit to the Telo phone jack and power the wireless phone base unit. If the Telo unit has a solid blue light, you will hear the dialt tone (produced by the Telo unit) in any of the wireless unit that are part of your wireless phone system. If you have a land line and regular phone jacks throughout the home, you will need to make a connection using a telephone cord between one of the phone jacks and the Telo unit. The phone cord will be similar to the one you may have now connected between a regular phone and the phone jack in the wall. The idea is to use one of the jacks and the wiring throughout the home to transfer the Telo signal to all the other phone jacks throughout the home. Also if you do not have a land line, but have a tlephone demarc box on the exterior of your home, you may want to disconnect the line that comes from the street (or utility pole if overhead) from your telephone home wiring so there may not be any interferance orother problems caused by the telephone wiring and or servic from the TELCO company. If you need more information, call me at 719 240-0961 Jaime E. Loza Schrock Electric, Inc.
Answered by JEL2021 3 years ago
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There is a standard phone jack in the back of the device. Just plug your existing land-line phone in and you are good to go.
Answered by Anonymous 3 years ago
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Plug into the telo. If you have a phone in a different room, you will need the linx.
Answered by techdad 3 years ago
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The basic Ooma Telo has a standard telephone jack, into which you plug the telephone line that connects to your home phone, or to your home phone wiring (after you've disconnected your home phone wiring from the telephone companies box).
Answered by cerj 3 years ago
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You must first disconnect your in-home phone line(s) from the telephone company interconnection board (the terminal board where the in-home lines are connected to the incoming phone company cable). If more than one in-home line is connected at the board, make sure to connect the lines together, once they are removed from the board. Then simply plug the Ooma Telo into any one of the in-home phone jacks. If you want to have a phone at the same location, plug a splitter into the Telo output jack. This procedure is explained in detail in the operating manual and on the website.
Answered by Anonymous 3 years ago
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