Hi Friends,

Present setup, I have an Ooma phone number (which is used as a 2nd line when needed) and a landline.

I'm thinking of saving money by porting the landline number to Ooma and then running a backfeed into the house so we can continue as if using POTS.

If I port, how do I feed one of the Ooma lines into the house, while keeping the other tied to the Ooma base telephone?

Any insights, links, and assistance greatly appreciated.

SR

yes, you can do that, but I think both lines will be backed into the house.

you need to disconnect the house from the current POTS (Plain Old Tel service) if it is connected.

Also you need to opt for Premier service if you want to have 2 numbers.

Or you could buy another OOMA and end up a few bucks cheaper than 1 OOMA plus premier service.

Yes, its possible. This article helped me when I set it up several years ago.

[support.ooma.com]

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Gilbert
Yes, its possible. This article helped me when I set it up several years ago.

[support.ooma.com]

That article doesn't go into detail on how to accomplish the important first step, which is disconnecting the inside wiring from the outside Telco wiring. That is typically done at the demarcation box with is typically outside where your utilities enter the house.

Inside it, there is what looks like a short phone cord plugged into a phone jack. The jack is the outside wiring the cord is the inside wiring so you just need to unplug it and keep it unplugged since you no longer have telco service. Then all of you inside wiring is disconnected from the outside wiring and all of the inside jacks are wired together so you can connect the Ooma's phone output to any one of them and phones to any of the others.

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Gilbert
Yes, its possible. This article helped me when I set it up several years ago.

[support.ooma.com]

That article doesn't go into detail on how to accomplish the important first step, which is disconnecting the inside wiring from the outside Telco wiring. That is typically done at the demarcation box with is typically outside where your utilities enter the house.

Inside it, there is what looks like a short phone cord plugged into a phone jack. The jack is the outside wiring the cord is the inside wiring so you just need to unplug it and keep it unplugged since you no longer have telco service. Then all of you inside wiring is disconnected from the outside wiring and all of the inside jacks are wired together so you can connect the Ooma's phone output to any one of them and phones to any of the others.

Or just get a wireless phone kit with multiple handsets, which is what we did. Base station is connected to the Ooma.

Super easy. I just plug my ooma into the home wiring. I disconnected the Network Interface device outside.

Steps 1-3 of this.
[www.wikihow.com]

Leave your house wiring intact, just phone company unplug the RJ-11 (or RJ-45 for multiline houses) from the terminal.