Has Anyone used their RT31P2 w/ a ROTARY phone?

Posts: 34 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Apr 21, 2005 Posts: 34

I do not have Voange yet. I am trying to figure out is the RT31P2 will work with my old school rotary phones. I want to be able to dial out and have full use. I know there is a pulse to tone converter out there. My buddy has an older ATA and the rotary worked OK - dialed out and everything.

Thanks.

Posts: 73 · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:22 am Post subject:

I read somewhere that Vonage doesn't support rotary dialing. Don't know if this is true or not. Can't find anything on the Vonage web site about it.

Posts: 134 · Vonage Representative Joined: Apr 15, 2005 Posts: 134

pulse only works on the MTA, not the linksys's

Posts: 34 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Apr 21, 2005 Posts: 34

Excuse my lack of knowledge but what is "the MTA"?

Posts: 134 · Vonage Representative Joined: Apr 15, 2005 Posts: 134

motorola telephone adapter, it was one of our older models that supported pulse dialing, we only support touch tone now.

Posts: 34 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Apr 21, 2005 Posts: 34

Ohhhhhh. I see. So theoretically I could get a Motorola TA and I would be all set with pulse dial? Will Vonage let me hook up an old ATA that I purchase from Ebay let's say? The VT1005V model?

Posts: 215 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Nov 24, 2004 Posts: 215

enigma91884 wrote:

motorola telephone adapter, it was one of our older models that supported pulse dialing, we only support touch tone now.

You mean, Media Terminal Adapter, right?

Cool

Posts: 134 · Vonage Representative Joined: Apr 15, 2005 Posts: 134

jdr30 wrote:

enigma91884 wrote:

motorola telephone adapter, it was one of our older models that supported pulse dialing, we only support touch tone now.

You mean, Media Terminal Adapter, right?

Cool

Posts: 34 · Vonage Forum Junior Joined: Apr 21, 2005 Posts: 34

To answer my own question.......the RT31P2 does NOT accept pulse dialing. I didn't think it would anyways. But the Vonage service is great and the sound is clear as a bell.

I think I will be purchase a little device that converts pulse dialing into DTMF. I'll let everyone know if this gadget works.

http://www.sandman.com/digit.html

Posts: 90 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: May 05, 2005 Posts: 90

Just tried it with my Linksys box and a circa 1960's dial phone (they NEVER die, do they?).

No go.

But frankly, with 10-digit dialing, I tend to use the dial phones only to pick up calls.

Oddly enough, my PBX will recognize the pulses, so I can dial "3" to pickup a call on one of the old phones.

"I'm quite fond of these old things...."