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Vonage You are probably right, the NIB is more likely to be installed by your local Bell

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Vonage In most cases, you just have to go outside and disconnect your house from the phone

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Vonage So the phone cable comes out of the ground and just ends? Or did the electrician

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Vonage By "8 phone lines" I assume you mean 8 physical phones wired to the block? There

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Vonage The normal colors would be red/green for line 1, and black/yellow for line 2. I

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Vonage um, yeah, everybody does that already...

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Vonage Thanks very much for the help!

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Vonage I'll give the phone cos around here credit for minimal outages. Even when hurricanes

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Vonage I'll also add my recommendation for the Uniden TRU88xx series... I originally

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Vonage Sounds to me like there is another device connected to your house wiring which

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Vonage Give 'em a shout...according to this poster, they'll adjust it: http://www.vonage-forum.com/ftopi

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Vonage Thanks for the replies. I think I found the culprit: DSL Filters. When

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Vonage there are wireless usb phone jacks or just use your home wiring. http://www.vonage.com/help_knowled

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Vonage yeah im using the RT31p model seent from vonage and i have the same setup as you.

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Vonage Yes it looks Similar, I completely removed the little connector and cut the blue

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Vonage If you are only using one phone and it is near the router then you should plug it into

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Vonage yeah some markets comcast has packages that have all you ned to start a noe network

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Vonage Shame? I don't get it. Seven is kinda low, isn't it? I thought the telco was at least

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Vonage Thanks, Stephen. I actually have Comcast so your instructions were excellent.

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Vonage not in terms of phone service exclusively. obviously vonage is vonage so the same

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Vonage yeah, *WHY* vonage would deviate from standard settings is a good question. i

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Vonage No, Vonage promotes price as its strength, however they do say they have yet to

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Vonage I don't think most people are looking for 8 hours of backup. I would bet that the

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Vonage Some have ask about my talking caller id box. Its very old, only talks the number

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Vonage The same thing happened to me. Everything was working fine on my home wired jacks,

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Vonage Once your phone lines are disconnected from the outside, you connect the Vonage

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Vonage As noted . Just unplug the rj45 with the white/ blue wires, and tag it!

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Vonage Go through it methodically. I assume you have Vonage working with a phone

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Vonage Rookie mistake - I had the pair of wires punched down backwards. Sorry for the wild

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Vonage Exactly. Twist all the green wires together, and put tape or wire nut on them, and

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Vonage I wasn't aware that the Vonage service could run on the Sipura devices. I'm thinking

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Vonage All in a day's work! I'm glad everything worked out!

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Vonage I have 3 splitters b/t the incomming and my modem.. 2 of which belong to the cable

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Vonage Keep it simple: Don't bother with the box. Go to your demarc point and

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Vonage I am stealing this first piece of advice from someone else here, I can't remember

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Vonage It Ain't? :)

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Vonage K.I.S.S. means Keep It Simple Stupid Forget all the crimping and splicing. Get

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Vonage There are some smaller datacom bridging modules (e.g. Leviton Model 47603-110)

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Vonage First off..ONE n in Vonage. :-D And like he said, it was quite simple for me. I disconnected

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Vonage I hope you ment "must be b/c i didn't Dis- connect the line from the house. Remember

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Vonage I found out the problem. It rained last night. The Verizon line is just dangling

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Vonage I would personally, put things together again. (disconnect any VoIP hardware)

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Vonage I have two Vtech cordless phones (1 plugged into a wall jack), 1 Panasonic cordless,

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Vonage I am with Videotron for high speed cable. They claim their speed is 5.1 mbps. Their

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Vonage Call up the phone company and tell them you want to disconnect your apartment from

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Vonage lexa1999, any reason why you are not using your current inside wiring to do

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Vonage This was discussed somewhere else. If your phone service was provided by the cable

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Vonage I don't think Verizon offers Naked DSL. They recently announced they will be offering

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Vonage Sure, I understand Jeff. My only comment would be to avoid any digital cordless

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Vonage SJanas0993, Since you had 2 phone lines coming into your house, your phone

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Vonage as far as reversed polarity, this was posted and discussed two days ago and has

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Vonage If you have a VERY old touchtone phone, it may not be able to dial if the polarity

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Vonage Unhook the 2 wires in the pictures that come up from the ground. You will be

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Vonage I would guess that they have your fowarding set up to forward on no answer, rather

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Vonage You're welcome Ed. It makes wiring neater and easier, and then if you ever switch

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Vonage Yes. I guess I saw the URL, and since I'm not in Michigan, I thought it might not apply.

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Vonage I'm sorry, I dont remember where I saw it, but I read in some forum that sometimes

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Vonage lithuanian98, How many lines did you have with your phone company? Also,

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Vonage Just unplug the phone-jack-lookin' thingy (also known as an RJ-11 plug). As I

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Vonage You can buy an outside box at radio shack for 10.00 if you want to. Here is a link to

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Vonage Thanks. Now that I know what it is at least I can try to track it down. Jeff

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Vonage Return the PAP2, in my opinion. To the best of my knowledge, the same phone number

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Vonage I'm not sure what kind of adapter you can buy off the shelf for that, but you could

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Vonage Not completely clear on your question, but: If you wish to still use your old

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Vonage I want to start using my vonage virtual numbers and have my telco lines do a call

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Vonage More than likely you will have to call Vonage and ask them to turn up the power and

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Vonage I stand corrected. It was late at night and I got a bit hasty, sorry. Nevertheless,

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Vonage It's also really hard to find CAT3 these days....

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Vonage If the orane/orange-white pair is actually wired to the 2nd line pins on each of

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Vonage Rlocone, I have one suggestion. When most electricians wire the phone

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Vonage Eric- I agree 100 %.... Don

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Vonage I am not positive, but I am pretty sure that all homes are wired to Bell regardles

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Vonage ?? Okay, thanks for the tips but there aren't other posts about my problem I could

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Vonage Thanks for all your responses. From the sounds of what you stated this should work.

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Vonage wow, you are confusing me. OK, you need this Box outside your house Ethernet

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Vonage I know RCA makes one and BestBuy sells it, i looked at one when i was setting up my

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Vonage From the information you provided it seems like your best option might be to have

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Vonage You can have a phone system run like this, it is dumb but I used to live in an apartment

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Vonage All, I am assuming that what I am disconnecting in the NIU is the RJ-45 plug, correct?

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Vonage Ok, so you should have no problem disconnecting completely from the telco. Then

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Vonage Actually it's more about how many ringers you have. If you turn off a phone's ringer,

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Vonage I saw those upon refresh... And I have a project when I get my new adapter... Thanks M~

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Vonage the phone plugs into the box they send you just like it plugs into your wall. it's

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Vonage Have you had problems ringing all your phones or are you assuming you will? Do you

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Vonage :eek: Greetings, I am a new Vonage customer. I have dsl via Verizon and

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Vonage I would really stay clear from AT&T Call Vantage and Verizon's VoiceWing

Vonage You could pay $250 or more, but you can get expandable units with multiple handsets

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Vonage Final disposition: I had twisted the Green and 3 white wires together and the

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Vonage I think we misunderstood each other - because I completely agree with you.

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Vonage that can happen if the calling Party is also with Vonage i.e. if someone who is a

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Vonage Phone lines don't care which way they are wired... you can totally reverse the

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Vonage yeah, you can use a splitter. Port 2 is for a second line. The splitter shouldn't

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Vonage Excellent. I did this at a friend's house yesterday and I'm glad it worked for you

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Vonage It doesn't sound like a stupid idea to me, unless you intend to wire the phone adapter

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Vonage This one has no meaningful future and is locked.

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Vonage So I'll answer your last question first: Running the whole house off

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Vonage Remember when you take over the wiring, at least it used to be the maximum number

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Vonage Or not....... I just setup a Linksys MCE for my neighbor. After monkeying around

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Vonage Yes, that will work. All the jacks in the house run outside to the box, so if you plug

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Vonage here are some walkthroughs if you have problems http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distribute.html

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Vonage I gotta agree with reebok... mine is the Uniden TRU5860-2 and I just love it. http://www.uniden.com

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Vonage Congrats, glad it worked for you! Most of my career has been in computers/networking...but

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Vonage Have you made sure that the feed from the telephone company isnt hooked up to the

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Vonage This is good to know -just in case! Especially since mine is not a direct TV tivo!

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Vonage I can't see why another ground would harm anything. I removed my wiring totally

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Vonage WOW....u r the MAN!!

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Vonage I have 7 phones connected to my motorola vt1000v. 2 cordless and the rest are regular

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Vonage Thank You for your reply. I am sorry that I wasn't very clear before. But I did try

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Vonage Check this out... all you could possibly need to know about how to do it: http://michigantelepho

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Vonage My line 2 jack on the Motorola is used for my fax line while jack 1 is for the main number.

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Vonage I live in an apartment and cannot access the NIU. However, there was a punch block

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Vonage First of all.. have you verified that you can normally complete a call with a phone

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Vonage Good point to make again, nolandline. You could easily be up and running just

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Vonage I followed the Michigan phone guide for instructions on how to disconnect from

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Vonage That $39.95 is discounted. If you don't have the RR and D-Cable package already

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Vonage We have been using Vonage about 3 months now. Fantastic quality and super easy.

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Vonage Here is what happens. You get a black box from Vonage, it's called an ATA. This

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Vonage Try this link.... http://www.vonage-forum.com/home-wiring-installation-guide.html

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Vonage It works on every phone. I have my service going through house wiring and caller

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Vonage First and formost, the alarm and the faxes are going to be "iffy". You will not be

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Vonage My Vonage service was working great until I connected the phone line to one of those

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Vonage LOL Yeah, it was about the easiest thing in the world. Just test for voltage, clip

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Vonage Can be done either way. When all jacks are wired seperately to a common junction

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Vonage Thanks guys for all the replies...at this point, none of us are too swift with the

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Vonage I found this website posted here and it really helped us: http://michigantelephone.mi.org/distrib

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Vonage Thanks Plyons, The light finally went on for me Over the weekend, rather than having

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Vonage For one more week go to radio shack and buy a two handset cordless phone. Price $70.

Vonage Got my LNP done yesterday, and, thanks to all the advice here, it took me all of about

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Vonage Your plan doesn't sound bad, but I'm unable to find any product like it except one

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Vonage You may plug anything into the home-wired system you want, as long as it does not

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Vonage I've never had problems with the wires being reversed but I am a bit anal about things

Vonage Specifically, the Motorola box can power a total REN of 5.0 (and some have reported

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Vonage plyons, Yes, you are right. That's exactly what you and I need to do. As I understand,

Vonage So even after all that great information I still decided to run the phone line over

Vonage What you need to do is first disconnect from the outside telephone line. It has

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Vonage One more thing for anyone using the in-wall wiring method. If your network

Vonage Yes, Disconnect your POTS and plug your Vonage Box into any working jack in your

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Vonage I am not sure that I understand what you mean by the radio shack splitter. If you

Vonage Glad to hear it worked out all right! :D It might help to know you're not alone

Vonage If you think it might be a phone issue, unplug all of your telephones from the wall

Vonage Good! Sounds like a relatively easy solution!

Vonage Guest to Guest: That is correct.

Vonage You should disconnect the wires coming into you Interface bridge at the Memarc.

Vonage you house had to be wired for two lines. ie: your jacks need to have 4 pins inside

Vonage Agreed The voltages potentially running through your POTS line could fry your

Vonage On loan to us from our good friends at Resources for Michigan Telephone Users is

Vonage I just spoke with 3 different Vonage support represntatives. The final response

Vonage There is no reason that you cannot connect multiple Vonage lines into a business

Vonage Most PBX's require the use of ground start trunks. Linksys phone adapters utilize

Vonage does anyone know how to set of service with a linksys wireless g dsl/fios system

Vonage This site sells adapter kits to do it right...Bought one for my cable internet

Vonage I want to put a WRT54G into my current network which consists of my cable modem (obviously),

Vonage Check out Nate Hoy's instructions here: http://vonage.nmhoy.net/tworouters.html

Vonage Why does Option 3 need the loopback from a lan port into the WAN?

Vonage Weird, isn't it? By plugging the main router into the Vonage box using the LAN port

Vonage Ah, right. Makes (some) sense.

Vonage customh, I'd also strongly recommend that you get either dd-wrt or if your

Vonage Hello, I have my "home office" in an isolated room of our house. Unfortunately,

Vonage It's tough with no wiring at all to the office. You could get a wireless access point

Vonage Thanks Steve. I realized it is somewhat difficult to accomplish what I want w/o

Vonage What you read is correct. You can use the laptop as a bridge to plug in the phone adapter

Vonage Hi, Maybe I am missing something, but why not use a two line cordless phone. I

Vonage Hello, Update: With further research I have solved the problem. I have

Vonage Well I spoke too soon - My call quality is still poor: my Vonage tranmission quality

Vonage You should hook the vonage box to the cable modem then hook your router into the

Vonage Ok, I've got a rather advanced setup so bear with me. I'm in temp housing, the owner

Vonage i would be ever surprised if that worked. 802.11x is not a true bi-directional

Vonage I have been told if you get a computer (laptop) to connect wirelessly you can set

Vonage I have vonage setup and running ok. However, for work I have a VPN PPTP connection

Vonage Hello all...hope some-one out there in Vonage Forum land can help shed some light

Vonage I am having the same exact problem, also new to Vonage. In my case the Vongae line

Vonage Very strange. The V-portal is new and we haven't had many reports of any sort on

Vonage Steve. When the home runs are disconnected from each other there are no problems.

Vonage Yes, you've got the preferred modern wiring scheme, and I wouldn't screw it up

Vonage Steve, Yes....the problem persists even with no phones plugged into jacks. And

Vonage Below are the two responses I rec'd from Vonage re: this issue: 1) The error

Vonage Blepsis- Those responses also don't address the fact that the V-Portal has a specific

Vonage Yes Steve - the problem persists even if only two home runs are connected together.

Vonage I've had little doubt that it's the V-Portal from the beginning. That's why I said

Vonage I tried to find the elusive NID at my condo yesterday in preparation for the arrival

Vonage The only problem I ever had with Vonage was voicemail messages would be delayed

Vonage Check in a utility closet and where you have your fuse box. I live in an apt I did not

Vonage I live in a condo with no NID - instead they daisy-chained all my phone jacks AND

Vonage Thanks for the replies, all. I thought there had to be an NID of some sort (somewhere)

Vonage Have you checked in the Laundry Room? If you have one it could be there.

Vonage Usually it's a square grey box, something like this: http://www.rric.net/insidewiring.htm It

Vonage Many multi-family units have one main telco NIU for all apartments in one location

Vonage I work as a field engineer for a telecom company and install Vonage VOIP plenty.

Vonage Interesting. That's the solution to a variety of problems with various adapters,

Vonage I am in a new home which never had landline service (i.e. no SBC), so I don't have

Vonage Hello, I am seeking recommendations for a new router. My Linksys RTP300 has

Vonage Most newer DSL modems are actually routers. Verify whether or not your current

Vonage Thanks for the info... My DSL modem is at least 3 years old. I'm only moderately

Vonage Actually, some of the v-portals are routers. So you might try the following scenario

Vonage Forgive me if this question has been answered before but I've already searched

Vonage Need more information on the phone wiring in your house to best answer your question. Ive

Vonage I have the exact situation that you are asking about. My house was already wired

Vonage I have an interesting problem. After a few days Vonage system is operating, it

Vonage If you're using a cordless 2.4 GHz phone, replace it with a wired phone for awhile

Vonage All the phones but one are ringing fine. Only this one does not. ALthough it works

Vonage I think you've mixed up this thread with the other one you started. Did you call

Vonage Yes, you are right. I did mix up the two subjects. Loss of audio is nothing to

Vonage Did you try removing the hub?

Vonage I did remove the hub, but even with hub, audio does not start disappearing right

Vonage How do I assign one of the devices that are attached to the RT300 router a static

Vonage You should get a better answer to this in the VoIP forum where the networking guys

Vonage I am using RTP300 and recently got a new DECT phone. When calls come in, all phones

Vonage My elderly parents recently purchased Vonage having no idea what VOiP is. Their

Vonage Hi folks, I just came onboard (finally) and have a D-Link VTA on the way. I'm on Telus'

Vonage Basically any phone should work fine with Vonage. The Vonage adapters are designed

Vonage Understand you have to unplug the main phone line coming into the house, in order

Vonage Hi, I just bought a vonage box (it's not here yet...) and I am curious if this is

Vonage How do you run Vonage and a separate phone connection over Cat5. This seems like

Vonage Yes, you can do it that way. Of course, the Vonage adapter uses the line 1 terminals

Vonage I had not thought about the fact that the telephone line coming out of the Vonage

Vonage Yup, a crossover cord is another way. Just be sure that you've got things right

Vonage I have to ask how accidentally hooking the Vonage line up to an active land line

Vonage The normal open line voltage on a telephone line is around 50 volts. Connect two

Vonage Thanks, your responses have been very helpful

Vonage hi, i am a vonage customer. i have taken a basic landline connection so that my home

Vonage Hi, I want to switch to Vonage, but because I'm anal I want to be able to run it

Vonage I'd start by talking to the apartment managers. They should be able to at least

Vonage I can help, and you don't have to go outside, hopefully. Last night I was bored,

Vonage HI, I live in an apartment. My original phone line has been disconnected a

Vonage Once again, I would suggest starting with the apartment manager. He/she may know

Vonage You can always trace (follow) the lines to see which one comes in to your apartment. In

Vonage Yes, but it's not always easy to determine where the chain goes next. The only jack

Vonage Hi I presently have cable internet but I am switching to DSL service. I have Vonage

Vonage I live in a co-op apartment in NYC. I want to have the outside phone line disconnected

Vonage In any case the phone line has to enter your apartment and connect to one of the wall

Vonage That's is what I would do as well. IN a lot of buildings, the punchblock is in

Vonage Tipsy, Legally, you can not connect or disconnect any wiring that does not

Vonage Your local radio shack or electronics supply store sells an adaptor that looks

Vonage another item you may have missed considering is if you building has a door/intecom

Vonage I'm sure Vonage does not want to recommend anything here, as tampering with internal

Vonage Tell Verizon to pound sand... :) Get yourself a nice set of 5.8GHz expandable

Vonage To the original poster... did you ever get your problem solved? I'm getting ready

Vonage Tipsy and Kallawm, May I suggest that if you find messing with wires to be too

Vonage I have a new home that is wired in every room for both rj11 on one wall and rj45 on another

Vonage What you tried to do with the hub ought to work, so I'd try to figure out why it didn't

Vonage If I plug a phone directly into the VDV21-VD adapter it works fine. If I connect

Vonage Can't hook up VT2542 to verizon wireless usb. Technical support for verizon in

Vonage You'll find best responses for this in the VoIP forum, where the networking experts

Vonage Okay, I just got Vonage phone service and everything. But i've noticed a problem.

Vonage Here is my network. I use to connect directly to the Netgear and had no problems.

Vonage If by I can NOT Remote Desktop into work anymore you mean you can not remote into

Vonage Hello all, This is my first time post on this forum after I discovered it earlier

Vonage Hi PBX will not be compatible with vonage... what ever sip server or whatever

Vonage You'll have to have some sort of analog interface for the Motorola adapter. I'm

Vonage I have PBX experiance but not with Allworx. In any case I would have Allworx

Vonage Vonage used to have a SIP plan that they have currently put on hold. This was available

Vonage Trying to hard wire my vonage service into our home's wiring so that we can get our

Vonage I don't think so. What you did should work, unless something you did while disconnecting

Vonage Yes, that did work (with some static) - but I was looking to try to get my security

Vonage I've got my Vonage set up and working. If I plug from the Vonage adapter into any

Vonage OK - IT WORKS. I couldn't wait. I just guessed. It probably doesn't even matter

Vonage I was just about to reply to your posting but you figured it out yourself. I just

Vonage Ahh - that's a good idea that you wired the plug to the OnQ Line In. I should have done

Vonage I am currently having issues with my security system (non-Vonage related) so

Vonage New to the OnQ panel. I just bought a brand new house, and of course there is no manual

Vonage I also have a new house with a patch panel upstairs with a single line bringing in

Vonage This might help Vonage Home Wiring Guide . The forum mentioned on that page

Vonage Thanks very much. That information will be VERY helpful! -Mike

Vonage Dan, I followed those instructions and had the adapter hardwired in about

Vonage I have a RT31P2. For the last couple of years and have hosted a website without problems

Vonage Welcome aboard, M. You've posted this in the hard wiring forum. You'll get a better

Vonage Thanks for the tip. I did manage to resolve the problem. It turns out that the new