Hi, I'm setting up a voip phone network in my house. I'm wondering how I can do this with multiple phones (more than 2).

I've heard that you can cross wires with the phonebox outside and hook your phones up to a phonejack in your house to connect them to the voip adapter. Is this possible, can anyone give me some suggestions, I'm no ccna network techy, so I don't know much about doing this.

10/4/2006 1:56:41 PM

Disconnect the POTS connection to the house so that your phone wiring is isolated.

Connect one of the analog RJ21 ports from your Vonage or other VoIP adapter to one of the phone jacks.

Connect any powered phones to the normal phone jacks, and you're good to go. This won't work with the phones that receive power from the phone jacks, but won't be problem for any phone that has it's own power supply.

10/4/2006 1:59:36 PM

Hi

You suggested to disconnect the pots connection from the house, so the phone wiring is isolated. I'm about as layman as possible with this. So, when I go to the phone box what am I looking for? Will the pots connection be specially labled?

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"Connect one of the analog RJ21 ports from your Vonage or other VoIP adapter to one of the phone jacks."

I've a linksys voip adapter 2100

On the back there's 2 phonejacks, and an ethernet port and an internet port.

You're stating I hook this sucker up to any phonejack in the house using the PHONE outlet.

[Edited on October 4, 2006 at 2:20 PM. Reason : nuts]

10/4/2006 2:12:29 PM

When disconnecting from the phone company, you have 2 options.

Option 1: Go outside and find the box and disco it there. Once you open the box you'll see wires that are probably screwed down on some contacts. You just unscrew them and unhook the wires. Or if you're lucky you might have a newfangled box where the line is terminated in an rj12 so you just unplug that.

The benifit here is its quick and doesn't break your existing pstn stuff. If you want it back you have to go outside and reconnect. The downside is that you wont have ANY pstn access in your house.

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"You're stating I hook this sucker up to any phonejack in the house using the PHONE outlet."

Yes. After the pstn is discoed, you plug the phone outlet on the voip device into any available phonejack in the house.

Option 2: Disconnect inside your house: Usually this means physically cutting the line after it enters your house.

The benifit to option 2, is if you cut the line you can clean it up and make it real nice on the inside of your house. What i did was cut the line after it entered my house. I terminated the wire going to the rest of my house with an rj11 and i terminated the line coming into my house with a normal wall phone jack. My cable modem and vonage router are in the same location. If i want my house lines to by voip, i plug that rj11 into the vonage router. if i want them to be pstn i plug them into the wall jack. So its nice and easy. This also has the benifit of allowing you to connect a backup phone to that wall jack in the even that the power goes out and your voip is fucked. Even if you dont have service with the phone company 911 access is always on.

I like option 2 b/c it lets me pretend i have a pro wiring cabnet in my basement.

[Edited on October 4, 2006 at 3:44 PM. Reason : .]

10/4/2006 3:43:12 PM

10/4/2006 9:12:46 PM

For under $100 I bought a uniden 3 handset 5.8 GHz system. Negates messing with any of that other stuff. Additional handsets are $30 a piece.

10/4/2006 9:24:11 PM