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Re: Silly question re telephone patch cords I do know that oddly a 4-wire line worked 100% between my HP640 Fax and my AT&T Callvantage Centillium MTA-1 while that 4-wire line between my HP640 Fax and the Vonage V-Portal did not work. It has nothing to do with house wiring as house wiring does not enter into this connection. As a test I tool that 4-wire line and used to replace the 2-wire line between my V-Portal and my otherwise 100% functioning GE 2 station one line cordless phone and it does not work.
When I used the 4-wire line between the V-Portal and the HP640 Fax using the 'line' port not the 'ext' port - I DO get that odd - "You have plugged your device into the wrong port warning message.
So, to make a long story boring, there is a new 2-wire line in shipment to me. when It gets here I will most likely plug the HP640 Fax into the V-Portal and plug the GE phone into the ext port of the fax machine.
Unless someone call verify whether a 4-pin splitter placed on the port-1 of the V-Portal and running both the fax and phone on separate 2-wire lines will actually work, or if it definitely will not. |
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| I had the same Problem with my HP All-In-One DeskJet Fax. When I connected the HP FAX to the Vonage Adapter with a 4 wire RJ11 - the fax would not work and actually the Vonage Adapter also failed. I found on the Internet that others with the same problem either used a DSL Filter reversed or a 2 wire RJ11. So I cut the 2 outside wires of the 4 wire RJ11 I had and it worked. No one has explained why the 4 wire RJ11 causes problems with the FAX Machine. Not sure why the DSL filter reversed would work either as I don't have any of those to look at. |
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