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Vonage Since your house was built in 200 you will have a Network Interface Device (NID)
Since your house was built in 200 you will have a Network Interface Device (NID) box on the side of your house. This is also sometimes called a Network Interface Unit (NIU), but they are one in the same. This makes it easy to disconnect from the phone company wiring. You can check out the thread: Vonage Forum Thread on House Wiring or this one:
Home Wiring Installation Guide
I found it much easier to disconnect the house wiring from inside the house rather than at the NID. I looked inside my house to see where the wires from the NID came into the house. Mine terminated at a "66-Block" which is where all the wires from inside the house were joined together. I simply isolated the phone company wire from the NID to the 66-Block, then plugged in the Vonage phone adapter to a jack near my cable model. That jack was being used by a phone, so a simple 2 to 1 RJ-11 phone jack solved that issue.
As noted throughout this forum, is is important to label the disconnect very clearly. If someone who thinks they're helping reconnects the phone company wiring, you could easily damage your Vonage phone adapter. I made a BIG RED SIGN that reads:
"Warning! This house is wired for Voip Phone Service. Phone service will be interrupted and damage to electronic equipment will result if house telephone lines are connected to the Telephone company."
I also found this link on phone wiring useful: Phone Man's Home Phone Wiring Advice Page
Good luck!
Read The Full Thread: Cable Modem, Router, and Phone Line Hook Up Questions
• Hello all,
I am thinking about getting Vonage phone service really soon
• Well first, there's an issue that you have to work with your cordless phone. Since
• So it's possible I can use all the phone jacks in the house as normal? :w00t:
I
• Yes, it's quite possible. Disconnecting the current service is both because
• Thanks for the help Steve I appreciate it.
My house was built in 2000 and my
• This is how my Network Interface Box looks like:
• Pulling those two phone plugs (particularly the top one) should have you ready
• I did try that but when I use a Y adapter the phone in my office has a strange faint
• I have the same box as the pic BirdDoh provided. In my home office I have 2 phone jacks
booma posted "Since your house was built in 200 you will have a Network Interface Device (NID)" on 05/22/2006 |
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