Alarms (about the sticky thread) and the rng-tip-r1-r2

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Hello,

Ok I understand how to get the Vonage phone system throughout the house, what I don't understand is the second part of the Alarms sticky thread. If the Vonage Router phone port only reads 2 pins than where are the "rng, Tip, R-1 and T-1 exactly going? Or does it get plugged into the ethernet port on the router instead?

Thanks

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Jayharvey wrote:

Hello,

Ok I understand how to get the Vonage phone system throughout the house, what I don't understand is the second part of the Alarms sticky thread. If the Vonage Router phone port only reads 2 pins than where are the "rng, Tip, R-1 and T-1 exactly going? Or does it get plugged into the ethernet port on the router instead?

First, you definitely do not plug any house wiring into an ethernet port on the router.

Now, what is your understanding of how Vonage gets connected to house wiring? Without an alarm it's pretty simple. First you disconnect everything from any land lines. Then a normal phone cord with RJ11 connectors plugs into the phone port on the Vonage adapter and picks up just the center two contacts. The other end plugs into a wall jack and completes a connectiion to the line 1 contacts (center 2) in that wall jack, effectively connecting you to line 1 throughout the house.

With an alarm things are different. With a land line, the land line is connected to ring and tip on the alarm panel and R1 and T1 on the alarm panel are connected to the rest of the house wiring (usually line 1). This allows the alarm to take preemptive use of the phone line in an emergency by disconnecting it from the R1/T1 terminals. To duplicate this setup with Vonage, you need to disconnect the land line from tip and ring at the panel and connect the output from your Vonage adapter there instead. This generally requires some special wiring, not simply plugging the adapter into a wall jack. Plugging into a wall jack will give you Vonage phone service throughout the house, but the alarm will not be able to call out.

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Jayharvey wrote:

With an alarm things are different. With a land line, the land line is connected to ring and tip on the alarm panel and R1 and T1 on the alarm panel are connected to the rest of the house wiring (usually line 1). This allows the alarm to take preemptive use of the phone line in an emergency by disconnecting it from the R1/T1 terminals. To duplicate this setup with Vonage, you need to disconnect the land line from tip and ring at the panel and connect the output from your Vonage adapter there instead. This generally requires some special wiring, not simply plugging the adapter into a wall jack. Plugging into a wall jack will give you Vonage phone service throughout the house, but the alarm will not be able to call out.

Ok I think I understand and please correct me if i'm wrong in any spot. First, I disconnect tip and ring from the alarm panel and connect the vonage phone jack from the router to rng/tip on the alarm panel directly. I presume since R1 and T1 are connected to house wiring, the phone signal will pass from tip/rng through R1, T1 to allow phone throughout the house and the alarm panel at the same time. I think I understand. so R1 and T1 never get connected directly to the routers phone jack, only rng/tip does, which connects to the two center pin wires.

Does my bandwidth settings have to be on high within my Vonage control panel?

I appreciate your time in walking throgh this with me.

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I think you've got it. I always recommend using high bandwidth unless problems with internet service limitations drive you to something different.