Moving a Halo Hub

[Carsaab]

I have just moved into  a new build and the fiber box EchoLife HG8010H5-20 GPON Terminal is in a kitchen cupboard and the halo and digital voice phone are connected to the halo router directly. There are four sockets built in next to the fiber one phone socket and three Ethernet sockets. I want to move the answer phone base unit to the hall so that we can see if we have any messages. The hall has a double socket one for phone and one for Ethernet. Is this possible? How do I configure this?

[licquorice · Accepted solution]

The GPON terminal (ONT) and the home hub need to be connected together via Ethernet. How you achieve that is up to you. I suspect the double socket in the hall is a redundant copper master socket and not an Ethernet socket and will be of no use to you. 

[licquorice]

The digital voice phone doesn't have a base station, the hub is a DECT base station in itself. If you are using an old DECT system with a base station, you can connect the phone socket on the hub to the adjacent phone socket with a double ended phone cord and then try the base station in the phone socket in the hall. This will only work if indeed the 2 sockets are connected together.

[Carsaab]

Thank you I will try that appreciated

[licquorice]

You need to discover what sockets are cabled to where in order to make the connections.

If the sockets in the hall are indeed separate phone and Ethernet sockets cabled back to the sockets adjacent to the ONT rather than a redundant NTE, then you can either just move the base station as described in my previous post, or connect the ONT to the Ethernet socket that goes to the hall and move the hub.

Can you post a picture of the sockets in the hall please?

[Carsaab]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/4wSGy2ZerdpVp91M8 

[licquorice]

That's certainly not an old copper nte, the sockets are possibly wired back to the sockets adjacent to the ONT, in which case you can use them to move either the hub or phone base station as described previously.

[Carsaab]

perfect thank you I will attempt to find out which connections are which