Home Wiring and Line 1 & 2 of Motorola MTA

Posts: 28 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Dec 16, 2003 Posts: 28

Since signing up for Vonage about a year ago and connecting it to the home wiring I have had all phones connected to the VOIP. I had my mian phone connected to the MTA from Line1 and Line 2 connected to a house jack which distributed the line through all the jacks in the house.

Recently this stopped working. I called Vonage and the CSR insisted that the MTAs never allowed the use of Line 2 port if only 1 line was registered to the MTA. I explained that it has worked for me for months since I started. He thought the only reason it may have stopped was a firmware upgrade.

Is anyone aware of any such firmware upgrade to the Motorola MTA? Can anyone help in getting Line 2 port to work again so I can distributed to the rest of the house?

The only other alternative I have is to use a splitter at line1 for the main phone and the line to the house jack. But the standard splitter (as picture on the Michigan Telephone site) does not plug propertly into the ports in the back of the MTA (I think the pointy bit is not long enough for the recess in the back of the MTA). I assume I can get a different type of splitter?

Posts: 8 · Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:43 am Post subject: Splitting your phone line

My line 2 jack on the Motorola is used for my fax line while jack 1 is for the main number. From what I recall, that's how it's supposed to be.
I've taken a regular telephone wire from an old phone and went from the Motorola phone adapter's jack 1 to a wall jack to back feed the whole house. If you need your phone plugged in right at that location, they make all kinds of splitters. Change the wall plate to a 2 jack plate if you want and jump out red to red and green to green between the jacks. Then put your house wires back on the red and green terminals and you're all set. Plug the adapter into one and your phone into the other. Remember though to disconnect the wires coming in from the local telco, where they enter the house. You don't want to back feed out of your house to the pole!!