activating vonage on all lines of the house

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 23, 2005 Posts: 5

Hello:

My cat5 telephone lines are home runned to NID. I have three bridges in the NID each having 4 pairs of blue/white connected. I see two pairs of red/green wires coming from company side of the NID. I don't understand why I have two pairs of Red/green wires even though I had only one line in my home.

Problem is I unclip both pairs of red/green wires none of my lines work, other way when I unclip one pair and keep the other pair only some lines work. how to disconnect incoming wires from phone company and activate all lines in my home thru NID.

any ideas ?

thanks, tryVoIP.

Posts: 16 · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject:

I assume that you are planning on disconnecting both pair of the telephone company's wiring and feeding your entire house via your Vonage telephone adapter (back feeding the house). What you might try doing is installing a telepone cord (jumper) between the 2 plugs in the NID where the telephone company's wiring normally connected.

Posts: 492

Lighting up your whole house after disconnecting POTS from the interconnection box sounds great. I live in a one bedroom apartment that has one telephone jack in the kitchen. I can't gain anything by rewiring. A cordless phone on the wall next to the computer system in the bedroom suits me well.

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 23, 2005 Posts: 5

edward, thanks for your reply. Please help me understand how I should have a jumper between two bridges. What are different things I need and where can I buy them. Also will that keep the ground connection from NID intact ?

thanks

Posts: 16 · Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject:

I don't understand why, but it sounds like your house is wired as 2 separate zones. That is why part of the house loses phone service when you disconnect each of the incoming wires from the local telephone company.

How are the incoming red/green wires from the local telephone company connected to the NID? Telephone style plugs or under screws?

If they are under screws, you need to make a note of which color (red or green) goes to each screw. Then you need to disconnect both pair red/green pair of wires. Then you need to install a jumper piece of wire between the 2 screws that had red wires, and install a jumper piece of wire between the 2 screws that had green wires.

If they use telephone style plugs, it is going to be a little more difficult. You might try going to a telephone store or maybe Radio Shack, and see if they sell a jumper with the telephone style plugs. Obviously, it needs to connect the 2 reds together and the 2 greens together.

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 23, 2005 Posts: 5

Yes. that sounds to be correct. for some reason they wired my house as two zones. Mine are clip type. Inside each bridge there are about 5 clips and red/green was connected to one of the clips. I got the basic idea of having a jumper. I will try that and let you know how it works !

thanks, tryVoIP

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 23, 2005 Posts: 5

I got it working. when I looked at the consumer side of the box, it was totally confusing. I am not sure if any one has this setup or not, but this is how my NID is setup. One pair of red/green coming in from telephone company from other side of the box connected to input of first bridge. This is input of the bridge, not one of the clips, it is behind the bridge. Third bridge input is connected to one of the clips in the second bridge and the second bridge input is connected to one of the clips on the first bridge and this is how all three bridges are connected. Two input lines which I thought telephone company input lines are not really telphone company input lines but they are bridge input lines used to connect bridges. All I did is keep everthing exactly same, disconnect the incoming line from telephone company on the other side of the box and fed the Vonage signal to one of the sockets in the house. That's it. All my phone lines are activated with Voip. Since all lines are working, I returned the cordless phone with 4 handsets I bought last week.

thanks for your ideas

try Voip.

Posts: 16 · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:31 am Post subject:

It sounds like you have a very confusing NID connection, but I'm glad to hear you got it working. Smile