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Vonage OK, so I think I made a mistake somewhere with this. I plugged my Vonage adapter
OK, so I think I made a mistake somewhere with this. I plugged my Vonage adapter into a phone jack last night, plugged a phone into another jack, and... nothing.
Here is what I did, hopefully it makes sense, and someone more experienced than I can tell me where I went wrong.
1) Took my 110 punch down block, and some lengths of cat5 wire, I took the blue, blue/white, orange and orange/white and threaded them onto the punch down block. I did not strip any of the wire, simply threaded the individual strands through the block. Mine pretty much looked like the 3rd picture here
2) I then took my cable that was routed from each room, stripped off some of the outer blue jacket, cut the 2 pairs that I did not want to use off. Then untwisted the blue, blue/white, orange, orange/white as little as possible, and used the punchdown tool to push them down onto the block with corresponding colors. Again, I did not strip any of the insulation, so no bare wires.
3) I then used some connecting blocks I had, and pushed them down onto the wires. These had little blade looking parts on the bottom, which looking at them it looks like they pierce the wire on the block, creating the circuit.
4) At each phone jack in the room, I connected blue to red, blue/white to green, orange to yellow, and orange/white to black.
5) Took my Vonage adapter, plugged phone line into the back, plugged other end of phone line into wall. Nothing.
6) Took a dual phone socket, plugged phone and Vonage into same wall jack. Nothing.
So, here I am wondering what I did wrong? Do I need to strip some of the insulation on the punch down block so that I have bare wire? If nothing else, I guess I can simply remove the 110 block and connect all the wires together that way, but would prefer to troubleshoot and fix what I have.
Thanks.
Read The Full Thread: New house, new Cat5, confused by connector / wiring block
• I am in the middle of building a new house, and have pulled Cat5 cable for the phone
• unless you intend to have multiple phone lines coming into your home, your 110
• For a basic description check this page on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/110_block
For
• Thanks, it looks fairly easy to do. I think I will go with setting up for 2 lines now,
naiku posted "OK, so I think I made a mistake somewhere with this. I plugged my Vonage adapter" on 02/06/2009 |
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