Residential phone solutions and applications

[caseydoug]

Glad you got it working. Remember that home wiring often consists of an inside pair and an outside pair, capable of supporting two lines. If yours has that, you can get some adapters and use your existing jacks in connection with both ports on your voipo device. You can get a virtual number and have it ring line2, or convert that virtual number into a fully independent line, and thus have a second phone line throughout your house. You might need adapters for jacks using the outside pair, but those are very cheap at e.g. Radio Shack. It all depends on whether the jacks in your house are wired for two pair.

[bwyatt]

It all depends on whether the jacks in your house are wired for two pair.

Good suggestion. I'm going to guess... some are and some aren't.

I'm porting my phone number and have a temporary number now. I suppose it would be best to wait until the dust settles and the number is moved before I try it?

[tritch]

Just a point to remember for others reading this thread and thinking about using their house wiring. This works fine and dandy for those who have cable service for their ISP, but for those who use DSL it's another story. You will have to ensure that a dedicated wire pair from the NID is used exclusively to the DSL modem. Hopefully, there will be at least 2 other unused wire pairs that can be isolated at the NID so that they can be used at the wall jacks in the house for ATA line 1 and line 2 ports.

If you connect the DSL wire pair to one of the ATA's port by accident, it will likely damage the phone port on the ATA.