Home Wiring... so lost

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i started to use vonage and i read their instruction on home wiring but the thing is i don't have a Network Interface Device (NID) box.... my house is older and have the picture above....

i have verizon dsl as a dry loop and want to wire my house so that i can use all the phone plug around the house. i tried removing the red and blue in the right and the white and green from the left. BUT that totally knock out my dsl... no internet...what do i do HELP PLEASE

THANKS Guys

Posts: 292 · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject:

2 of the wires are for your phone line, the other 2 are for your dsl.
You need to determine which are for your dsl and leave them connected. Disconnect the other 2 and you should be good to go.
Try disconnecting 1 wire at a time and see if dsl works. If dsl works, leave that one disconnected and disconnect another. If dsl doesn't work, reconnect that wire. Once 2 wires are disconnected and dsl still works, your phones lines should be ready to be connected to Vonage.

Posts: 109 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Jun 21, 2005 Posts: 109

on most homes red & green are line 1 newer homes use blue & blue/white.

your easiest solution would be to move dsl to a seconds pair ie: yellow/black and leave your phones all on red / green.

this way you only have to mess with moving the wires just for your dsl at the NIC box.

at your wall jack that feeds your modem get a 2 line y adapter -- not a splitter

plug the dsl into line 2 of the jack (yellow/black) and plug adapter's phone jack into line 1 (red/green) now all your house should have a dial tone. if one jack is dead check the wiring at that jack to make sure it is not wired up to line 2 only.

with this setup you should be able to move your dsl modem to any jack as long as you use the 2 line adapter.