2 ATA's same number?

Guest

I have two houses which I would prefer to have the same phone number considering I spend equal time at each house. I already am using Vonage at one house and am quite pleased with it. I was wondering if it is possible to get a second ATA box and have it bound to the original number so the phone will ring in both houses. Has anyone tried this before?

Posts: 54 · Full Forum Member Joined: May 01, 2003 Posts: 54

According to my source at Vonage you can't do this. Each phone number must have it's own ATA (or a seperate port on the same ATA).

What you CAN do, though, is sign up for Vonage and add a second number with as second ATA, then you should be able to set your ringing up to ring both ATA's before going to voicemail.

Posts: 38 · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:22 am Post subject:

Any reason you can't just carry the ATA back and forth between the houses?

Guest

Just get a second ata and phone number, set each number to forward to the other and it will just go around in circles, just like when you call SBC!

Guest

You have to pay for two lines, but you can setup a virtual number with BlastMe and that will ring both of the other numbers. This gives you two seperate lines, plus a virtual number tho... Hope this helps.

-Scott

Guest

i know you cant do this on Vonage, but other Voip solutions are able to do this. we have ip phones at my work...we have 1 line but 3 separate phones and extentions...but only one phone can make/receieve calls at a time...but they all ring.

Posts: 83 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Nov 16, 2003 Posts: 83

dg wrote:

Any reason you can't just carry the ATA back and forth between the houses?

No reason at all. I do it all the time.

Posts: 37 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Dec 02, 2003 Posts: 37

I would just get a 2nd ATA under the minimum $12/month plan (same account). Then just give people one number and setup a hunt group (or use manual forward).

Steven