December 5th, 2009
What If Vonage Is Already Connected Re Whole House Wiring For Voip?
The phones connected through the walls are not working, I read instructions about whole house rewiring but what if my voip wa connected first – what do I do about that? The only phone that rings is the phone connected to vonage adapter.
December 5th, 2009 8:28 AM
Mr. VoIP is right, just disconnect from the phone network interface box and connect the VoIP service (in this case Vonage) into your phone jack
Religious Student on the other hand is wrong, the PBX switch is only used for seamlessly switching services (I have one on the side of my house when I switched from MCI to Time Warner Cable digital phone, I have since then rewired my phone network so I could move the modem to a new location, I am no longer connected to the PBX switch and my phone is working fine), some VoIP services may try to push this because it’s part of their code (rules) not to disconnect the the line to the phone interface box, to keep with that seamless transition for in case you want to switch back
December 5th, 2009 8:28 AM
To use your house wiring with any VoIP service phone adapter (ATA), you must first disconnect your PSTN landline telco line at the Demac junction box where the PSTN phone line enters the house. Unplugging the telco jack at the demac box will isolate your private house wiring from the public Telco wiring.
Your VoIP service comes over your Internet connection and terminates at the ATA phone jack that your phone is plugged into at the VoIP ATA box. This is totally isolated from the rest of your house phone wiring.
But, once you have disconnected the Telco line at the Demarc box, now you can connect a telephone extension cord from your ATA phone jack (RJ-11) to one of your existing house phone jacks on the wall. Once this is done, all phones in the house will have access to the same VoIP line connected to your VoIP box (in your case, Vonage).
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P.S.
The method explained above will work with ALL VoIP services…….. Including Vonage.
It doesn’t take an engineers help to do it…
And, it doesn’t cost anything, if you do it yourself.
December 5th, 2009 8:28 AM
Vonage doesn’t allow you to do that without paying extra cash. I’ve had vonage and they said I need a special PBX switch to do this. The estimated an approximate cost of $1500 to $2000 for the hardware and I would need to get a contractor (thats a separate cost).
I recommend using http://www.shaggytalk.com and speak to a Sales Engineer to get this done! He’s helped me out and my entire house is wired for less than $500.00.