Wire linksys rt31p2 into home wiring

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 19, 2005 Posts: 2

I live in a newer condo, all phone and network drops are wired with Cat5 through a central patch panel. I use regular digital phone from my cable company for all all phone jacks in the house. I need to keep using this setup, I just want to convert one jack in the house to use the Vonage line and add a jack underneath it to use a second Vonage line.

I have a linksys rt31p2 using both lines one for work phone and one for a work fax. My old setup worked, I just ran the rj11 cables to the fax machine and phone, everything was fine. I recently moved everything to the closet where the patch panel was.

So I pulled the wires running from the patch panel to the office phone jack and spliced them directly to the rj11s co,ming from the linksys adapter. Red and green to blue/bluewhite for line one, and red and green to orange/orangewhite for the fax. Then in the office I added a cat5 jack and wried the blue/bluewhite to line one on that jack. And moved orange/orangewhite to the line one spot on the existing jack.

Everything works fine now, I can plug the phone and fax into the two jacks in the office and get the Vonage lines running.

My question is, did i do this properly, and are there any warnings I need to be aware of by doing this. Also what type of connectors are optimal for splicing the cat5 with the rj11 near the patch panel.

Thanks.

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freddyvoip wrote:

My question is, did i do this properly, and are there any warnings I need to be aware of by doing this. Also what type of connectors are optimal for splicing the cat5 with the rj11 near the patch panel.

Thanks.

I don't know about the connectors, but my reaction is that you should be the one giving the advice. I'd say you did that perfectly. If you had a cat 5 connector at the office end with all four pairs wired to it, you might have been able to plug in the right type of line splitter to provide plugs for the fax and phone, but your method is fine and makes for a nice neat job.

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 19, 2005 Posts: 2

Haha thanks, I just winged it. It was my first time playing with telephone wires and what not.

I almost went with your suggestion and used a splitter, but it just didn't seem like it would be as much fun. I have heard I should be using some sort of silicon communications wire splicer dealy bob instead of metal ones. Guess I will head to Home Depot tonight, and risk pissing the wife off again for disconnecting her office phone. Thanks