Potential Vonage customer has a question.

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Nov 11, 2004 Posts: 1

I am thinking about getting Vonage, but I cannot seem to get a straight answer on this from the company. I have Cat5e running to every room in my house. The jack acts as either a connection to the network, OR phone service. A regular phone cord can be plugged in to get regular phone service, or a Cat5e cable can be connected to it to get network and internet access. If I got Vonage, and I had my regular phone service disconnected by Verizon, could I connect the Vonage to my router, and then my patch panel, and send that phone service throughout the house. I have heard about people doing it on regular copper phone wiring, so I would certainly imagine that I can do it on Cat5e. Because I am connecting to Cat5e I shouldn't have to actually disconnect any wires outside the house, right? This description makes me believe that I can set it up using my home network. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I know that if I cannot do this I can always buy a phone with multiple handsets and go that route. I would just hate to have to do that when I think that I have everything that I need to set this up already.

Thanks,
Mike

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Nov 11, 2004 Posts: 1

I meant to add this link to the post:

http://www.vonage.com/help_knowledgeBase_article.php?article=649

-Mike

Posts: 7 · Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject:

I think the answer to your question is yes.

Quote:

Like any telephone line, there is a limit to the number of phones you can connect to a single Vonage line. If too many phones are connected, the signal will fade, and not all of the phones will ring when a call comes in. Therefore, we recommend you only connect five phones maximum to a single Vonage line.

Once your have your Vonage device (pap2/router) connected, It would be necessary to run a single line (phone) to where your current/exhisting phoneline is terminated (nid/junction panel) most likly in your basement near your breaker box or on the outside of your house where the phone line comes in. Connect the new Vonage pair, inplace of the current phone line, and you should get a dial tone. Note what they say about 5 phones, if you have more phone jacks then that, youwill need to seperate the exhisting hookups, and run a secondline from your Vonage device.

Hope this helps!