I had NBN FTTC installed recently. My house originally had a 4 wire cable but only the white/blue wires were used. Some years ago I had a Telstra splitter installed and the technician explained that my wall sockets were daisy chained with white/blue and he wired my modem with the black/red which gave me a dedicated ADSL line and the phones no longer needed individual filters. When the self install kit arrived, the Internet via the modem worked fine but no phone. Nobody at Telstra was able to help as to which cable to plug into the modem, i.e, white/blue or red/black. As the Internet was working a check at that socket revealed the red/black cable, which comes via the splitter. I had no phone for a few days as the blue light for phone connection kept on flashing and in desperation I simply cut the white/blue in the Telstra splitter leaving the red/black in tact. Next I noticed that the phone light at the Frontier modem now changed to solid blue (it flashed continuously before), plugged in a Telstra compatible phone and Presto, phone worked. Purchased a Telstra DECT phone with 3 handsets plus a Telstra wireless phone extender and everything works. I then checked other existing daisy chained sockets with the Telstra original phone and each existing socket works. Prior to NBN I had 4 working sockets plus ADSL line and now I have actually 3 handsets with the DECT phone plus 3 of the original pre NBN Telstra phones, all working fine.
Bottom line is my question, was the above described method the correct way? Everything works, no technician required to amend any wiring and all I did was to cut the phone blue/white wires in that Telstra splitter with the phones now being powered via one of the two green phone sockets at the back of the modem by inserting a phone cable into a green port and the other end into the adjoining socket which I knew had white/blue wires and is daisy chained to other sockets. The DECT phone base unit uses the other green socket.
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