old-style telephone interface: pulsating dialtone?

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: May 04, 2006 Posts: 3

Ok, from the top...vonage can't transfer my number so I decided to do 2 things, keep my old phone service on a separate line with call fowarding sending all the phone calls to the new number...Then connect the Voip adapter into the current phone system...

Luckily I still have around 500' Cat5e cable, soldering iron, "the crip master", few low volt wall boxes, trusty roll of super 33+ vinal tape, and assorted 8 pin connectors from when I put in my little network...

What would be easiest is to cut the phone line in house at a connivent location, have a single run of cat5 and have one twisted pair connect the adapter to the house phone system, and another a phone (if I need to pay for call forwarding why not hook a phone for some redundancy)

Or I could mess with this

(cover says Bell System 305A2) about 8 wires on the inside...

anyway, I was wondering at what angel I should approach this or if I left anything out
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Posts: 4777 · Vonage Forum **MVM** Joined: Aug 30, 2005 Posts: 4777

Most houses are wired for 2 lines. If you have 1 POTS line it is normally connected to line 1 and line 2 will have nothing on it. Assuming your situation is like this, I'd move the POTS line to line 2 at the point where it comes into your house. Then I'd re-wire one of the jacks in your house to reverse lines 1 and 2. Plugging a regular phone into that jack would give you access to the POTS line that you're being forced to keep.

After doing all that, I'd plug the Vonage adapter into another wall jack, putting the Vonage service on line 1 at all the jacks in the house except the one I'd modified. There are variations on this theme, but the basic idea is to take advantage of the second line that is available in most houses, relegating the least used service- POTS- to line 2.

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: May 04, 2006 Posts: 3

I have it all hooked up now, not soldered quiet yet because now on the Vonage line the dial tone "pulses" about 5 times before it goes steady...bad connection?

Posts: 293 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Jan 22, 2006 Posts: 293

yomanwill wrote:

I have it all hooked up now, not soldered quiet yet because now on the Vonage line the dial tone "pulses" about 5 times before it goes steady...bad connection?

"Pulses" You mean like a stutter tone

Either that or voicemail Razz

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: May 04, 2006 Posts: 3

yes..it stutters, is this good or bad?

Edit: hmm, must be a voicemail notifaction...wow

Posts: 293 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Jan 22, 2006 Posts: 293

lol

Yeah, the stutter tone is the voicemail notification. It comes up around here often enough.

No problem