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| | Vonnage Setup - Converter for Each Phone??? My question is do you need a Analog to Digital converter for each phone in your house or do you plug it into any wall jack and it will service the entire house? I have made a rought sketch and am curious if this is the way it would work. Thanks.
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| Re: Vonnage Setup - Converter for Each Phone??? According to Vonage, yes it will work, but they will not provide support. The ease of doing it, however, depends on your wiring. If you have standard phone wiring, your wiring terminates within the phone company's NID outside. If you have structured wiring, then your wiring terminates in your structure panel. Either way it can work, but it might take a little extra effort to wire from the NID to the converter.
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| | | | Re: Vonnage Setup - Converter for Each Phone??? Can I just create a NID inside and run all the house wiring to that and connnect to the converter there. I have an old house and the wiring is quite screwy for the phones so it would be a benefit to me.
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| Re: Vonnage Setup - Converter for Each Phone??? When I built my house, I did a "structured" configuration, which essentially means all house wiring routes to a central point. For me, the central point is in the basement and included phone, ethernet, cable TV, and audio. This is all connected within a Leviton structured wiring box, which is essentially like an electric panel box (all available at Home Depot) with modules for phone, ethernet, and tv. Then, I ran a feeder cable from the structure panel to the Cable TV and phone NIDs outside. I could also run a feeder cable from a satellite dish in the future to this location without too much trouble. This puts my cable modem, router, and distribution system in the same spot. Therefore, for me to use vonage (if my area code ever becomes active), I would just have to plug the converter into my router, unhook the feeder cable from the phone NID, and hook the converter into the phone module.
Your exact steps would depend on your situation, but yes it will work. Things to consider are:
1. Making sure you get the telco line unhooked so the line voltage doesn't fry your Vonage converter
2. Leaving your options open to reconnect telco phone service if Vonage doesn't work out
3. Provide for a connection from your Vonage converter to your broadband service
NOTE: I do not know if there is any limit to the number of devices (a function of power output) that can be supported by the Vonage adapter. I know with using an ISDN router to connect to existing phone wiring I was limited to ~8 devices.
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| | | | | | Re: Vonnage Setup - Converter for Each Phone??? Thanks for the info. That was the type of setup I was thinking about. I am in the process of remodling so I would like to do that setup. Everytime I remodel a room I am going to drop a phone and ethernet line to the basement. Thanks for the info. I saw another post up the line about an alarm system. Do you have one that calls the service, Brinks in my case, during an emergency or break in.
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| Re: Vonnage Setup - Converter for Each Phone??? The only experience I have with that was a family member's house, where there was a conflict between her DSL and the alarm. Unfortunately, I do not remember what the exact solution was, but I believe it was related to the location of the split and filters relative to the alarm system.
I would be concerned about using an alarm on anything but a traditional POTS line. If your power goes out, you loose Vonage phone service. While I would have a cell phone backup for voice in case of emergency, an alarm dialer would be useless, even if the alarm box has a battery backup. This is related to the posts below about Vonage's lack of 911 service, which is also a concern.
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| | | | | | | | Re: Vonnage Setup - Converter for Each Phone??? I would be concerned about using an alarm on anything but a traditional POTS line. If your power goes out, you loose Vonage phone service. While I would have a cell phone backup for voice in case of emergency, an alarm dialer would be useless, even if the alarm box has a battery backup. This is related to the posts below about Vonage's lack of 911 service, which is also a concern
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I did not think of a power issue.........but with a ups might be able to back it up. But any glich on the modem for cable or dsl could cause you to lose network continuity.....I know some people have to log into there broadband that could cause a problem.
On the Filter for DSL Your best having it centrally located and have a home run to the modem.....that is how I have it and need no filters on the rest of the phones
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| Re: Vonnage Setup - Converter for Each Phone??? I believe that an area-wide (not just one house) power outage can also affect cable and DSL service in certain circumstances that otherwise would not affect POTS. It is a remote chance that something would happen while the power is out.
Also, I cannot remember the last time my phone went out. TimeWarner has short cable outages monthly. Not that I'm complaining about the service, it would just be throwing all my eggs in one basket to dump my POTS line in favor of VoIP via Cable. Couple that with unlimited nights and weekends with free long distance on a cell phone and I might be inclined to stick with what I have (Vonage isn't available here, yet, anyhoo).
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