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mjstraw
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Joined: Feb 14, 2007
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Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:54 am
Post subject: Structured Wiring
I'm sooooo glad I installed structured wiring when I re-did the communications cabling in my house. Everything terminates in rj45 jacks at a central location and is connected using patch cables.
Here's what I had to do when my D-link VTA arrived:
Using MAC address from label on VTA, make entry in DHCP on my router so it always get the same address - about 1 min.
Connect "phone 1" on the VTA to an open jack in the living room using cord supplied with VTA. Connect ethernet port on VTA to open port on router using supplied cable. Plug VTA power adapter into surge-protected outlet strip. All this was done at the structured wiring "hub" in the basement - took about 30 seconds.
VTA booted up with lights on as expected. Walked upstairs, plugged in phone and started making calls and playing with voicemail.
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line on single phone, existing landline still working everywhere it had been.
A couple of days later, I unplugged landline feed from voice bridge panel, unplugged VTA "phone 1" patch from living room jack and plugged it into the voice bridge where the landline used to be. Plugged landline into living room jack where VTA phone-1 used to be. Total time - under 30 seconds.
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line now available on all phones, landline available on single phone in living room.
If I wanted to, another 15 seconds and I could move the landline patch from the living room jack to line-2 on the voice bridge and have it appear as line-2 everywhere in the houst.
Rignt now the VTA is just "hanging" next to the panel in the basement. The most time-consuming part will be deciding where to mount it and route the patch cables so everythin looks "pretty".
Mark
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