New Straight Talk Home Phone Base by Moxee (KonnectOne)? Any Information?

[advcomp2019]

I know I do not have any issues with my home phone box. It is the ZTE one too.

Are you having issues with corded or cordless phones? What kind of answering machine is it?

I do know after some testing that some corded phones that get power from the box and some taped answering machines does have weird issues with the ZTE and older Huawai boxes. The issues are not easily tracked down tho.

I know most cordless phones and digital answering machine does not have the weird issues.

For some reason, VTech branded stuff is the weirdest, and the issue is just more random. That is why I tell people to stay away from VTech stuff.

The only issue that still confuses me is Panasonic speakerphones on the older Huawai box would have weird audio issues.

I have not got the Moxee box yet.

[rpz1]

I know I do not have any issues with my home phone box. It is the ZTE one too.

Are you having issues with corded or cordless phones? What kind of answering machine is it?

I do know after some testing that some corded phones that get power from the box and some taped answering machines does have weird issues with the ZTE and older Huawai boxes. The issues are not easily tracked down tho.

I know most cordless phones and digital answering machine does not have the weird issues.

For some reason, VTech branded stuff is the weirdest, and the issue is just more random. That is why I tell people to stay away from VTech stuff.

The only issue that still confuses me is Panasonic speakerphones on the older Huawai box would have weird audio issues.

I have not got the Moxee box yet.

When I was thinking about trying one of these boxes I stumbled upon something somewhere that mentioned some recommended spec of the phones that will work properly with one of these wireless boxes. Could have to do with that voltage trigger I mentioned in my other post. When the phone rings, the signal is a 20 hertz AC signal (about 90 volts). When in use it is a modulated DC signal (between 6 and 12 volts). How these boxes handles that could be some of these issues. ??

[advcomp2019]

Yea, it is just weird that some devices work while others do not. Even then, it is hard to figure out the issues.

[Hooterville]

Did Moxee ever update this to a regular dial tone or is it still that loud squeal noise?

[Provasek]

I bought the Moxee-Straight Talk box at Walmart in November 2021. In Texas, AT&T was charging me $84 a month for a basic wired local landline -- $37 for the line , 18 cents for Touch Tone, $11.99 each for caller ID and call waiting, and over $20 in taxes and fees.

My home phone number that I have has 17 years was ported in a few days. It works fine, but I was only getting 2 or 3 (out of 4) bars signal strength with the included antennas. For added resilience, I added a Bingfu 4G-LTE outdoor cellular antenna -- about $20 with low Loss SMA cable - connected to one of the antenna inputs, leaving the included antenna on the other connector. Now 4/4 bars all the time.

So the $15/ month service ($16.25 with Texas sales tax) will save me over $800 a year. But the odd dial tone and other sounds are the normal tones used in most of Europe. You can hear the dial tone it puts out on this page (I can't post a link so search wiki for Dial Tone ) along with the North American tone standard with the Bell System's ESS (electronic switching system) which rolled out over 50 years ago.

From complaints on Walmart.com (took it back , screeching weird tones) a lot of these units operate as designed, but are programmed with the incorrect country code, or the lookup table has the wrong sound samples loaded. I have a Vonage box for a kids line, and all the tones are the same as the local landline. Especially as these are marketed to older people as replacements for a landline, who are overwhelmed by cell phones and want the security of their existing phones, that work in a power failure, don't require internet to operate, and in an emergency, the location can be determined by 911 dispatchers since the boxes use GPS satellites to transmit their location. The off-putting unfamiliar tones confuse people -- instead of the brrrrrr sound that the number you are calling is ringing (ringback tone) this box uses the same 425 Hz tone as dial tone, busy signal and ringback tone. It's a serious firmware error, but neither Straight Talk, Walmart, KonnectOne, or Verizon understand the issue - apparently reselling a box designed and built by others that they assume is properly setup for USA use. The Straight Talk technical desk, which I finally was connected to, thinks this device is a cell phone (technically it is) .."Sir, cell phones do not have a dial tone, just enter the number and press "send" and the call will be connected",or that the incorrect ringback sound can be fixed by "pressing settings, then sounds, then ringtones, and select one I like better."

Just mind-numbing, since these devices can really save a lot of money.

[bobdevnul]

Thanks for the update. Is the ST ZTE box still available? Mine works great.

As far as these things being able to give location to 911 from GPS in the unit: Make sure the unit is close to a window. It won't get a GPS fix through a wall. I think it says this in the manual.

[dragon405]

I finally got one of these ST Moxee devices working after three attempts and it works good other than the screech for a dial tone. I figured third time might be the charm, and it was lol. I guess I can live with the screech for a dial tone, it's not all that bad really.

One thing I noticed is if I call a cell phone it does the weird ring tone when calling out, but if I call a landline I will hear a normal ringing just like when calling on a landline to any other phone. Strange. I don't know if this is always the same though because I can't always tell when I'm calling a landline.

Does anyone know if this Moxee device is VoLTE? I just see it listed as LTE.

[rpz1]

Just curious since this is one of the only threads that talks about these devices. There are not only regular phones but also adapters to hook up to phones that are blue tooth. You can just blue tooth your cell phone to your home phone. What's the benefit of having something like one of these home base stations vs the blue tooth path ?
Maybe for someone that doesn't understand or want to mess with a smartphone for blue tooth, or a phone with it's own number just as your home phone.
Thx

[rpz1]

Does anyone know if this Moxee device is VoLTE? I just see it listed as LTE.

They're VoLTE.

[Skuzz]

Just curious since this is one of the only threads that talks about these devices. There are not only regular phones but also adapters to hook up to phones that are blue tooth. You can just blue tooth your cell phone to your home phone. What's the benefit of having something like one of these home base stations vs the blue tooth path ?
Maybe for someone that doesn't understand or want to mess with a smartphone for blue tooth, or a phone with it's own number just as your home phone.
Thx

Two reasons: Simplicity, and reliability.

Especially if you live in an area with weak cellular signal, of which there are many such places in the US.

You can mount the home phone box in a location that gets reliable cellular signal, and put phones where you need them. By comparison, there's no guarantee you'll have your cell phone in a place where it gets reception when you actually need it.

Much better than dying in the basement because you can't dial 911.

[advcomp2019]

Two reasons: Simplicity, and reliability.

Especially if you live in an area with weak cellular signal, of which there are many such places in the US.

You can mount the home phone box in a location that gets reliable cellular signal, and put phones where you need them. By comparison, there's no guarantee you'll have your cell phone in a place where it gets reception when you actually need it.

Much better than dying in the basement because you can't dial 911.

I know when I had the CDMA box, I had to put it another part of the house because I was getting interference where I normally would put it.

Since getting the LTE box, I can put it anywhere in the house, and I do not have the same issues.

[whacker]

Another plus with using a cellular ATA like this is, you can put it where it needs to be put for reception issues, and you can connect its RJ11 analog connector up to your household phone wiring with a standard phone line cord (assuming the house still has that wiring—disconnect the outdoor telco network interface, then connect the ATA to the home wiring by simply plugging it into an available RJ11 modular phone wall jack). Then you can use existing real adult telephones where they already exist in the house (or add them as needed).