House Wiring Question

Posts: 2 · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 9:25 pm Post subject: House Wiring Question

Currently I have 2 lines entering my house. One normal phone line (Line 1) and one fax line (Line 2). Both lines enter thru a Bell Atlantic NID. Line 2 goes from the NID directly to my office where I have my computer, router, cable modem, and Moto. Line 2 terminates in the office without any further drops. Line 1 enters from the NID and is spread to three other rooms in the house but not to the office. The office has a remote wireless phone that uses Line 1.

What I would like to do is use Vonage and interconnect the office with the other phones. I thought this would be easy to do by simply unplugging the RJ11 jacks in the NID and placing a jumper wire between the 2 jacks.

My problem is when I open the NID, there aren't any jacks to unplug. The NID has 1 plug-in jack for each line for testing, and two terminal connectors (one red, one green) for each line. There are 3 cables (red,green,yellow, black) connected as follows:

Cable 1 has a green wire to a green terminal and a red wire to a red terminal for Line 2. A yellow wire to red terminal and black wire to green terminal for Line 1.

Cable 2 has a green wire to green terminal and a red wire to red terminal for Line 1.

Cable 3 has has a green wire to green terminal and a red wire to red terminal for Line 1.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Pete

Posts: 13 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Jun 02, 2004 Posts: 13

Are you sure your office doesn't have Line 1? From your description, the only cable that has line 2 on it (which you say only appears on the office) also has line 1. Based on the wiring description, a properly wired wall jack in the office would have line 1 appear as the second line. Or maybe the wires just aren't connected to the wall jack in the office at all.

If this is the case and assuming you want to keep your Verizon line 2 active for faxing, you should just be able to unplug the test jack at the NID, tape and mark it, then connect the MTA to Line 1 on the office (get a L1/L2 splitter if needed).

Posts: 2 · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:28 am Post subject:

I'm not sure if the office is wired for 2 lines. I'll check that out.

When I opened the NID I expected to find two terminal connections, an empty test jack, and a jack already plugged with a wire. I would then remove the wire from the jack and tape it. What I actually found was two terminals and an empty test jack (no plugged jack). How can I disconnect Telco from this arrangement?

Thanks for your help.

Posts: 13 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Jun 02, 2004 Posts: 13

Try this link....

http://www.vonage-forum.com/home-wiring-installation-guide.html