Building A New House?

Posts: 4 · 07/13/2004 @ 10:49a

Hello All!

My buddy is building a new house, and is placing his equipment downstairs in a office next to the garage. This will be a 2 level home with a bridge repeater access point. The Bridge ap will be located in the hall on the 2nd fl. Now, the voice ata will be place in the office.

Question: What is the best way of installation, if the voice ata is in the office and you want to have phone usage on the 2nd fl? Any special wiring, placement of additional phone jack. He needs to know so he can tell the engineers the amount of jacks, and where to place them?

Thanks.

Posts: 244 · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:40 am Post subject:

They do not have to wire it any differently than a normal house. One thing to keep in mind is Vonage advised to stay around the 5 Phone mark.

Ive seen posts where people have up to 8 working fine though. As long as the are wired in parallel all will work fine.

Posts: 35 · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject:

Rlocone,

I have one suggestion.

When most electricians wire the phone lines they will connect the red&green wires on the phone jacks for line 1 but will not connect the yellow&black wires to the jack for line 2.

There are two ways you can do this. Put in two-outlet phone jacks with red&green connected to line 1 and yellow&black connected to line 1 on the other jack.
-or-
On a single jack, have all four colors connected. You jack is now 2-line compatible. You will need a splitter to access each line individually.

This from someone who had to fix all of the outlets in his house to use Vonage for line 2.

Kevin