http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Equipment-VOIP-Landline-Noise-Mystery-22654119 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:06:58 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:06:58 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Equipment-VOIP-Landline-Noise-Mystery-22654779
I found an old "single line", 2-wire (r&g) phone cord and plugged the VOIP in with that into the Line 1/2 jack. No buzz/hum on line 2 now! PERFECT!!

So, now I just need to find a place that sells the single line wire - in a 20' length! :D

Thanks for the tip!! Have a great 4th!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Equipment-VOIP-Landline-Noise-Mystery-22654779 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:19:18 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Equipment-VOIP-Landline-Noise-Mystery-22654725
So - I should be looking for packaging that explicitly states something like "single line phone cord"? Or just check the connectors and verify that it only has two wires (green / red) in it?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Equipment-VOIP-Landline-Noise-Mystery-22654725 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:08:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Equipment-VOIP-Landline-Noise-Mystery-22654222 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Equipment-VOIP-Landline-Noise-Mystery-22654222 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:26:29 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Equipment-VOIP-Landline-Noise-Mystery-22654202 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Equipment-VOIP-Landline-Noise-Mystery-22654202 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:20:55 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Equipment-VOIP-Landline-Noise-Mystery-22654119
I have a Uniden TRU8866 2-Line phone. Originally I had two Verizon landlines. I just switch my primary (line 1) home phone service from Verizon to Brighthouse's Digital Home Phone service.

I left my line 2 in place with Verizon.

I have ONE phone cable coming into the house from the Verizon box outside. The Orange and Orange/White wires of that cable are still hooked into their terminals for Line 2 in the Verizon box. The Blue and Blue/White lines were disconnected from the terminals in the Verizon box outside and capped off.

So the way I'm seeing this - my Orange and Orange/White are still connected to Verizon - and are in use for my Line 2. The Blue and Blue/White have been disconnected from Verizon and are now only carrying the Brighthouse VOIP connection.

Everything works fine on it's own (if I plug a standalone phone into each line at the jack in my office). Small point here - I am using a two jack wall plate with the wires for the lines hooked up to the 'primary' connections for each jack. B & B/W to R & G on the top jack and O & O/W hooked to R & G on the bottom jack. Even though both pairs are connected to Red Green pairs, they are SEPARATE Red Green pairs on separate phone jacks - so there is no connection there. For giggles I moved my Line 2 to the Yellow Black on the second jack and still had the same issue. So I have TWO phone lines coming from the wall plate and plugging into the back of my 2-Line Uniden phone (Line 1 & Line 2).

The Uniden phone has a Line 1/2 input and a Line 2 input.

When I plug the VOIP line into the Line 1/2 jack and my Verizon line into the Line 2 jack - Line 1 (VOIP) sounds fine but Line 2 has an incredibly loud BUZZ / HUM on the line. It's unusable.

If I switch things around and make Verizon my Line 1 by plugging it into Line 1/2 on the Uniden - and plug the VOIP line into Line 2 - Everything works and sounds great!

Any ideas why this is happening? Is it common for 2-Line phones to have an issue when the VOIP line is plugged into the Line 1/2 input??

I can't wrap my head around this, because the lines - from everything I can tell - are all completely separate.

The easy solution is to just keep things switched and get used to Line 2 being my primary line... but after 10+ years of always dialing out and answering Line 1, it's been REALLY confusing.

Thanks for any tips or info.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Equipment-VOIP-Landline-Noise-Mystery-22654119 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:53:21 EDT