ILpt4U
join:2006-11-12
Crystal Lake, IL
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| You will need a screwdriver or two to do this. And access to your NID at the side of your house (the customer side is fine).
Crack open your phone jack where your modem is. Find the actual phone wires. You should either have phone line that consists of 4 wires that are green, red (pair 1), black, and yellow (pair 2) in color. Or 6 wires that are blue, blue-white (pair 1), orange, orange-white (pair 2), green, green-white (pair 3), or 8 wires that are blue, blue-white (pair 1), orange, orange-white (pair 2), green, green-white (pair 3), brown, and brown-white (pair 4).
Phone communications and ADSL lines only require 1 pair, and most phone line carries more than one pair. So the easiest thing to do here is find that second pair in the wall. Put it to a second jack there (replace the single position wall-plate with a 2-phone jack wall plate). Plug your Vonage into that.
If there is a phone distribution point in your home other than the NID, make sure that this new pair of wires feeds the rest of the phone jacks too. Or, alternately, swap this pair with the DSL pair (phone pair connects to the phones, and the DSL pair is isolated straight to the NID).
At the NID, make sure the DSL pair is still connected to the Line Module from the phone company. If you have a second line module in your NID, connect the phone pair to the second line module screws, and PULL THE TEST PLUG OUT OF THE TEST JACK on that line module. If you only have one line module in your NID, then splice the phone line pairs together somehow, but NOT on the line module.
This setup will give your DSL a dedicated pipe (a home run) to the Phone company, and will isolate it separate from the VoIP phone. And then your VoIP TA can send the signal out over the other pair.
I know there is a lot in my post, if you need anything cleared up, reply back.
And I gotta try to switch you to AT&T CallVantage instead of Vonage too. As an AT&T ADSL Customer, you get CallVantage Unlimited at a rate of $20/month. CallVantage is basically AT&T's version of Vonage, very similar setup with the TA and all. Regular price is the same as Vonage ($25/month), but customers of other AT&T services such as Wireless, ADSL, and/or U-Verse qualify for a $5/month discount. So you get unlimited US & Canada calling for $20/month. Check it out.
»www.usa.att.com/callvantage/index.jsp? -- CallVantage Website
866-596-8464 -- CallVantage Customer Service (To get the discount rate for "bundling" with ADSL, you have to call to order) |
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