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Vonage had a Free outgoing fax service (vfax) for subscriber.
Is it still available, and what is the web site.

Thanks
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Thank you, DLevenson I understand what you are saying and I will try it this week. Thank you again for your answer
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<blockquote>I changed to Vonage and now have the trouble light on and the beeping from the panel. I am Back feeding the Vonage line to the house using a wall jack that I do not need. i disconnected only one of the ATT cables from the outside of the house so i wouldn't have their dialtone kill the Vonage dialtone.</blockquote>

You don't have to pay to have a technician rewire your house unless you are unable or unwilling to do it yourself.  Your alarm panel has two telephone line connections (one wire-pair on each of these two connections).  It has one side which is intended to be connected to your outside line.  The other side is intended to be connected to your house wiring.  It normally connects the two together, allowing the devices connected to your house wiring to use the outside line.  When it wants to send an alarm (or a test) it opens this connection, thereby preempting your telephones and other devices on the house wiring, and taking over the outside line.  By backfeeding your house wiring from your Vonage device, you are feeding dial tone to the alarm panel on its inside rather than its outside telephone connection.  When  it opens its internal connection to send an alarm or a test, it loses the dial tone.

You can solve the immediate problem by connecting the other side of the alarm panel (which was connected to your outside line) to the inside wiring.  This will enable the alarm panel to send alarms (and tests) but will not allow it to preempt other telephone devices.

To restore the preemption functionality of the alarm system, you should feed your Vonage dial tone to the outside connection of the alarm panel, rather than backfeeding it through the house jacks.

If you understand this and can follow these directions, then you do not need to pay an outside technician to do it for you.
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Hello Guys,

 I am new to Vonage and new to the forum. I have a problem also with my alarm system. I use brinks and when I had it install it was done with an ATT line. I changed to Vonage and now have the trouble light on and the beeping from the panel. I am Back feeding the Vonage line to the house using a wall jack that I do not need. i disconnected only one of the ATT cables from the outside of the house so i wouldn't have their dialtone kill the Vonage dialtone. The problem is that when I try to do the test it fails to do it. Brinks tells me that I have to pay $90 for a tech to come out and reprogram the system and install some hardware to work with Vonage which is more $$$. Does anyone knows if I really have to do that??? Because I hardly use the phone in my house and if i have to pay for Brinks to come out I preffer to pay ATT $13 a month to have a land line and cancel the Vonage service all together. I would love to keep Vonage but not if I have to give more money to Brinks. They let me down with their customer service and support.
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Modem over VOIP

This is a late post, but I have been trying to connect a modem over VOIP (a regular Vonage line, not a Vonage Fax line) for about a week and was finally able to do it last night. I double checked that it still works this morning - just to be sure that I wasn't delusional last night after a frustrating weekend messing with this stuff.

To be quite honest, I think that the solution consisted of several small changes that I had to make. I hope this helps someone, because I was pulling my hair out for a week trying to get dial-up over Vonage.

My setup:

- Regular Vonage VOIP line

- Roadrunner (Tme Warner Cable) internet connection

- Cable modem connected to LinkSys broadband router with two phone ports

How I got it to work:

1. After reading several forum posts (from all over the place, not just the Vonage Forum) it seemed to be the consensus among some experts that you could not get an internal fax/modem to work over VOIP. I'm not sure of all of the technical reasons, but I certainly couldn't get mine to work.

2. I started searching for external modems that people had used over VOIP, and stumbled upon [url=http://www.amazon.com/Zoom-V-92-USB-Mini-3095/dp/B001FCIOSW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=electronics&amp;amp;qid=1255956849&amp;amp;sr=8-1-spell]this USB modem[/url] and the comment by L. Lupton with the title &quot;Works on VoIP and Win XP just fine!&quot; Off I went to Micro Center and picked one up for about $50.

3. I logged in at Vonage and under the settings area, increased the line quality to the max setting.

4. At the back of my router, I have a line filter that I had left over from an old DSL connection - not sure if it helps or not, but I figure it can't hurt. It's plugged directly into the router, and then has two ports - one for phone/voice and one for data. I tried to plug the line from the modem into the data port, but it wouldn't work. So, I plugged a phone line splitter into the phone port, and then the modem into one of the ports. I plug my home wiring into the other port. (Note: At first I had my modem plugged into the home wiring further away/downline from the router, but couldn't get a &quot;handshake&quot; from the dial-up location. I had to connect my modem as close to the router as possible - probably to cut out a lot of interferance in my home wiring).

5. Before I bought the new external modem, I had downloaded a &quot;Dialer&quot; from Roadrunner that lets you choose a location to dialup to. During the installation process, it installed a dialup script (see below). Using the dialer never helped my internal modem, but under the Properties for my Dialup Connection (in Control Panel - Network Connections) and then under the Security Tab, Interactive Logon and Scripting area, the &quot;Run Script&quot; box is checked and the location points to &quot;C:\Program Files\Roadrunner_Dialup_Internet\icc\login.scp&quot; script. This may be standard stuff, or maybe just something that Roadrunner requires - I have no idea.

The script looks like this:

proc main
 
    string prefix = &quot;aolnet/ent.&quot;
    string UID = prefix + $USERID
 
    waitfor
	&quot;ANSNet&quot; 	then DoANSLogin,
	&quot;Login:&quot; 	then DoPPPLogin,
	&quot;sername:&quot; 	then DoDirLogin,
	&quot;% Username:&quot; 	then DoPRLogin
    until 20
 
    DoANSLogin:
        waitfor &quot;login&quot;  until 5
	if $SUCCESS then
	    transmit prefix + $USERID, raw
	    transmit &quot;^M&quot;
	    goto DONE
	endif 
 
    DoPPPLogin:
        transmit UID, raw
	transmit &quot;^M&quot;
	waitfor &quot;Password&quot; until 5
	transmit $PASSWORD, raw
	transmit &quot;^M&quot; 
	waitfor &quot;&amp;gt;&quot; until 5
	transmit &quot;ppp&quot;, raw
	transmit &quot;^M&quot; 
	goto DONE
 
    DoDirLogin:
	transmit UID, raw
	transmit &quot;^M&quot;
	waitfor &quot;Password&quot; until 5
	transmit $PASSWORD, raw
	transmit &quot;^M&quot; 
	goto DONE
 
    DoPRLogin:
	waitfor &quot;% Username:&quot;  until 20
	if $SUCCESS then
	    transmit UID, raw
	    transmit &quot;^M&quot;
	    waitfor &quot;Password&quot; until 5
	    transmit $PASSWORD, raw
	    transmit &quot;^M&quot; 
	    goto DONE
	endif

    DONE:
        delay 2
endproc

6. I added &quot;*99,&quot; to the phone number of the dialup location. This is supposed to tell Vonage to use the highest quality line, which I had already done, but it may also affect some other line settings as well.

7. I turned off &quot;Enable Modem Error Control&quot; and &quot;Enable Modem Compression&quot; on the modem configuration screen under my connection properties. (At first I also scaled back my modem speed to 9600, but later put it back to 115200 and it doesn't seem to make any difference).

8. When I tell the modem to connect, it starts the dialup process. A dialog box appears that says &quot;Dialing *99,xxx-xxx-xxxx&quot;. Then it says &quot;Postconnecting through [script name]&quot;. Then it verifies my username and password. Then registers my computer with the server.

9. The modem connects at 46.6 Kbps.

I have noticed that some dialup locations (Hunstville, AL for example) seem to be more buggy that others (Dallas, Kansas City), but Roadrunner has a large enough network of servers/dialup locations  that it doesn't matter for my purposes.

My internal modem still does not work with these changes.

I hope this helps somewhat. Good luck.
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Being an installer for alarm systems, ksig is right.  You just have to wire the line from the ATA to your existing RJ31X jack.  If your not comfortable with doing this yourself.  I would suggest you call your alarm installer to do so.
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We have Vonage at our office.  And I have Vonage at home.  There is one service that Vonage DOES NOT offer - receiving faxes that get converted to a PDF file and then emailed to one of more email addresses that the user sets up on the Vonage website.  I was told that this is something Vonage is working on.  So now, I have to pay another company (Onebox) to do this service for me.  I would prefer just to have Vonage do it.  WHEN DOES VONAGE ANTICIPATE THAT THIS SERVICE WILL BE AVAILABLE?  I know a dozen business people who claim they would sign up for it in a heart beat.  And that is just me.
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<title>hey there im josh</title>
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hey i just wanted to introduce myself :P
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I'm a little late in the game, been away, but yes my alarm dials through Vonage just fine.  The ATA connects to a RJ31X jack on the alarm panel and then goes out from the alarm panel to the rest of the house just like the wiring pre-vonage.  I have a cellular backup on the alarm in case the vonage ever took a dump but it never seems to have an issue.
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not sure weather i have done this wright but i was trying to reply about monitored alarms.
i went with a company called direct reponse security from birmingham. i rang them after i had a break in, they came to see me the same day and as my wife was terreffied to go back in the house the man arranged to fit the alarm the next day, i have never any trouble with the alarm or the company
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