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Vonage All questions about reliability aside, I have Vonage service with Brinks using
All questions about reliability aside, I have Vonage service with Brinks using their POTS based modem for dial out and can attest that it works. My problem was due to the fact that Brinks wires their connection on outside of the home in the telco's wiring box. Even though I followed the directions to enable Vonage all over the interior of my home, Brinks was connected elsewhere. In summary, I purchased a telephone wire-tracer (tone generator), traced out the wires for both the main line in my home and the Brinks modem and spliced them together.
If your setup is like mine, in the Brinks box there will likely be a small surface-mount telephone jack:
Unplug the telephone cable and plug in a standard telephone (keep it simple, don't use a cordless phone) into that jack. If you have dial tone then you might call Vonage for help with sorting out the problem with the modem dialing out. In my case, I had no dialtone, the steps I took are below. Sorry for the brevity but I didn't want to write a book.
I plugged the tone-generator into that box and then used the tone-generator's probe to find the tone on the wiring in my telephone box.
Once you sort out which is the alarm wiring, you may want to discretely mark it so you can remember what it is.
Then, move the tone generator to one of your (working) telephone jacks. Then go back to the telco box and find which wires go back into your home.
Lastly, join the wires you marked earlier to the ones that correspond to your inside wiring with some sort of telephone splice/tap.
Go back to your Brinks box and plug your phone back in to test that it now has dial tone.
Once you have dial tone, you can start a manual test of the system with the options button. HINT: you can listen in on an extension while the modem starts the dial-out. It will sound like a fax machine making a call out. I recommend you mute your phone so that you don't introduce noise into the connection.
Good luck!
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IJDC posted "All questions about reliability aside, I have Vonage service with Brinks using" on 11/21/2010 |
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