internal phone wiring modification for vonage

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hi

I am wondering if anyone has modified their exisitng telephone wiring to connecxt to the ATA, so that the phone can be plugged in anywhere around the house where there are phone jacks available?

Thanks!

Posts: 83 · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2003 8:56 am Post subject:

Yes, most of us here have our entire house wired to the ATA.

Check the "Digital Voice" forum for step by step details.

Papu Papu

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papu papu wrote:

Yes, most of us here have our entire house wired to the ATA.

Check the "Digital Voice" forum for step by step details.

Papu Papu

CAN YOU REFERENCE THE MESSAGE THAT DETAILS THESE STEPS?? I CAN'T FIND IT FOR SOME REASON.

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Jun 24, 2003 Posts: 4

I read somewhere in this forum that in order to have all telephone jacks work with Vonage, I (or a tech) would have to physically disconnect telephone wiring. I live in an apt building, would this work? How?

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I'm sorry I know this is an older post but I had to ask this. What if you use DSL and need your telephone line for you connection?

Can you still hook your entire house with the ATA?

Posts: 5 · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 3:24 pm Post subject:

Chris wrote:

I'm sorry I know this is an older post but I had to ask this. What if you use DSL and need your telephone line for you connection?

Can you still hook your entire house with the ATA?

Yes with big qualifier..... You must have no bridged wires from the DSL line connected to the wires inside of your house.

At the Demarc box, make sure that the telco line is connected directly to your DSL modem ONLY. Seperate the rest of the inhouse wiring from the DSL wire. Then you can use your interior wiring for Vonage. The in house wiring for the phones cannot make contact with the DSL wire. There may be breaks in the wiring network inside of your house and you will have to reconnect that portion only. But overall, you will have Vonage on all house lines.

You could also do one other thing. If you want, you could get two line telephone sets. Wire the Vonage to the second pair of telco wires and have access to both Telco on line one and Vonage on line two.. Make sure to disconnect the second pair of wires from the telco Demarc. That is to prevent any outside interference.... Hopefully, this helps.... Smile

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Aug 02, 2003 Posts: 1

At my previous house I had the grey housing unit outside (NID). At my current home, I can't seem to find one outside.....my home might pre-date that. I think in my basement there's like a terminal where it appears the line from outside comes in and everything in the house branches off. Anyone have a similiar setup that they can give any guidance on? I don't actually have Vonage yet, I'm trying to confirm that I can set it up and get it in the whole house before I sign up. I'm pretty familiar with wiring, I've setup my own cat5 computer network and have done numerous phone extensions off of existing lines.

Any comments or suggestions welcome.
Thanks in advance.

JLR2000

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I have something similar to that, but it all starts off at a Demarc. I just bought the house and I think the Demarc is a newer addition to the wiring that was put in when the house was built in '61. There is some type of wire junction that connects to the Demarc with all wall jacks being fed from there. Weird thing is there is also a line that goes to a electric socket?!?!? It isn't plugged in, and I am in the process of ripping it all out to re-wire the whole house with CAT5e (network & phones). I am curious as to what that thing does though.

Guest

I am interested in wiring Vonage ATA to my second line "yellow and black" pair at RBOC Demarc. Is it really safe to use RBOC dialtone on green and red wires and Vonage on yellow and black throughout the house?

Also, what happens if I accidentally hit CONF button on a phone to merge 2 lines together? Maybe like in Ghostbusters when Bill Murray says "don't cross the streams!!!" Twisted Evil

Posts: 5 · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 7:21 am Post subject:

Using the Yellow/Black pair of wires are ok. Just make sure that you disconnect the same from the outside wires. Phone company field repair and install people tend to put phantom numbers on your wires if you're not paying attention to them.. This precaution is to make sure you never have a voltage from the telco on your wires.

Also, I do bridged or conference calls all the time with no problems. Most phones have protection inside of them to prevent voltage crossover.