engadget.com — Engadget has a nice guide on hooking up our VOIP adapter on your old phone jacks. "No soldering irons or caustic acid required." All you need is a screwdriver, pliers, wire cutters, extra phone wires, splice connectors (optional), and a VoIP Adapter"
Jun 21, 2006 View in Crawl 4
dustedbunnyJun 21, 2006
I wish this could be done in an apartment. From my understanding it can't be.
s1rk3ls_Jun 21, 2006
"plug the adapter into one phone jack, any phone jack.Go into your phone box outside of your house and unhook the connector coming from outside lines.."I would suggest reversing that order... unplug the outside connection to eliminate any incoming voltage on the line before plugging your adapter into the line, results could be undesirable otherwise :) Have you ever held the bare ends of a phone cable in your hands when someone decided to call? It won't do any damage to you, but it's enough to wake a person up, and potentially fry a nice sensitive piece of equipment such as your Internet phone adapter.
quavistarJun 21, 2006
I don't get it? My VOIP to wireless works fine, if privacy is a concern, top of the line wireless phones have signal scramblers, etc. HellOooo, can you hear me now?!
beandipJun 21, 2006
You can just plug it into an available phone jack and all the phones will work... unless you have an alarm.If you have an alarm you need to tap into the wiring before the alarms RJ-31X jack. The reason is because if the alarm dials out it cuts off the other phones to make sure it has the line. If the dial tone is plugged into a house jack then when the alarms does its cutover it will have no dial tone on its incoming wire pair.I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my house alarm would not dial out. Then I found the Michigan telephone link a couple of years ago to wire my alarm correctly, called my alarm company to tell them I was testing and then tested it successfully.
Closed AccountJun 22, 2006
used the same info for a customer's house a few months ago - the best part of all this is that CAT3 can work in parallel: hook up to 1 jack and all the rest work as well! (But if you have more than 5 jacks or so, you could have ring issues but most homes/condos will have no problem).