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Depends?
by Stan Chambers - 3/7/05 6:32 PM In reply to: Is it really such a good deal? by dagger906Where else can you get unlimited local and long distance phone service for $25 per month. I haven't found it anywhere other than Vonage broadband. As for quality, as I said before, I believe it is somewhat dependent on your location and quality of internet connection.
My local phone company charges $57.00 per month plus charges extra for other services and long distance.
I get high speed cable internet and unlimited phone service for less than I used to pay for phone service alone.
Do your homework. Ask others, who have the service in your area, about the quality of service.
Best of Luck
getting rid of your home phone?
by dagger906 - 3/8/05 9:55 PM In reply to: Depends? by Stan ChambersDoes that mean getting rid of your home phone? What if you need to dail 911?
Besides, local calls on cell phones are free during nights and weekends anyway...
getting rid of your home phone?
by Stan Chambers - 3/9/05 2:13 PM In reply to: getting rid of your home phone? by dagger906Yes, I had my land line disconnected. That was the purpose of getting broadband.
Vonage offers 911 service in my area. You should verify if it is available in your area.
I have also reduced my cell phone service to a minimum package with the addition of broadband.
The initial cost was about $40.00 bucks for the phone adapter. The setup was also very easy.
One item that they don't mention is that you need to physically disconnect from the land line before the service will work. I unplugged the incoming line on the outside. Usually a small weather covered box on the side of your house.
Disconnecting From Landline
by droy99 - 3/9/05 5:06 PM In reply to: getting rid of your home phone? by Stan ChambersStan, you mentioned that you successfully disconnected the proper wires so that you no longer had phone service coming in from your customer network box. Since you were successful in doing this, perhaps, you can help me?
I was told that the wire I needed to disconnect would be inside the box and should look just like a modular phone jack. Well, when I opened up the box, there are several of those modular jacks.
The person who lived here before probably added them so that he could get additional jacks in to the refinished basement. Well, anyway, that's how it appears. I tried disconnecting the 4 different modular jacks 1 at a time. I would disconnect 1, listen for a dial tone, then, reconnect it and disconnect the next 1. I got through all 4 of those, and, none of them totally killed service to the inside.
Since I am totally blind, I thought, I was missing something obvious, so, I had someone else look in there too. They said, it wasn't apparent which wire would kill all service going in.
People told me this would be easy, well, I guess I am just vary dumb!
There are also 2 wires on screw terminals, I was afraid to disconnect these.
Right now, I am waiting for them to port my number over from the old telco, once they do, I will need to permanently disconnect landline service. However, I thought I would do a test run, then, reconnect it until the day the number was ported over.
Anyway, if anyone has any other ideas, I would appreciate it.
I don't always monitor the forums here, so, if you could drop me an email at:
droy1000@comcast.net, I would appreciate it.
That isn't my regular email address, so, I am not worried about revealing it here.
house wiring & alternatives
by r_kissel - 3/11/05 3:34 PM In reply to: Disconnecting From Landline by droy99This is why I chose to go cordless in my house. I have telephone jacks all over the place, but chose not to attempt to use them. I just bought the cordless telephone set, plugged in the base, set the satellite units where I wanted them (and can move them at any time) & was in business.
You can buy a cordless phone set with 4 phones (base and 3 satellite) at Costco (and undoubtedly others) for $100 or so. It works.
In-house wiring?
by Marty Nelson - 3/12/05 12:39 PM In reply to: house wiring & alternatives by r_kisselI currently have 2 lines in my house and wish to keep it that way. One for fax/business, one for home use.
How do I connect the VOIP into the home circuitry? Do I just feed a line from the adaper to the RJ11 wall jack? I have dedicated jacks for separate lines so theoretically I could run a line to both jacks.
Do I need 2 phone adaptors (Vonage)?
Also, has anyone heard of Lingo? I called them and the sales guy just wanted to sign me up, not provide any information.
Marty
In-house Wiring - don't hook BOTH!
by bradysd - 3/27/05 9:56 PM In reply to: In-house wiring? by Marty NelsonI don't believe you can hook both the VOIP and regular phone to the same system. The land line carries power that will fry your VOIP router - at least that's what I think I heard. You have to completely disconnect from the telco before hooking up VOIP to existing wiring. But you can go all wireless for the VOIP. Just buy a wireless phone set with however many handsets you need. Then you can keep both systems. It does require separate phones however. But you'll need that anyway. When you use VOIP you have to dial a 1 on every VOIP call, even local (at least I did on Packet8's service.)
dialing 1
by Timmahh - 10/16/05 10:41 AM In reply to: In-house Wiring - don't hook BOTH! by bradysdA voip box CAN be configured to only have to use 1 plus the area code when calling outside your area code, call your Voip provider and have them help you set up your voip box to do this, not hard but without the proper knowledge, a nightmare to figure out. Your Voip provider should be willing to walk through this with you. its Customer Service, and is still alive and kicking. Believe it or Not.
Tim Locke
No such thing as a voip box.
by hlt069 - 5/8/09 10:23 PM In reply to: dialing 1 by TimmahhThere is no such thing called a voip box. You are probably referring to a phone adapter that is used to send calls over the Internet. VOIP stands for voice over internet protocol. It is a software standard used to send vocal information over the Internet.
No need to disconnect your phone system wires in most cases.
by hlt069 - 5/8/09 10:17 PM In reply to: In-house Wiring - don't hook BOTH! by bradysdThere is no need to physically disconnect your phone company's wiring if you have DSL. If you do, you will not have DSL service.
There are only two ways to have whole house phone service with Vonage for DSL.
1. Connect your V-Portal adapter to your DSL modem then, connect a cordless phone base to the adapter and buy a 4 cordless phone system.
2. This one is harder - attach your modem to the outside of your house near an electrical outlet and the d-mark box for your phone wiring. Next attach your V-Portal adapter next to the modem. Open your phone box and connect the incoming phone plug into your modem, plug a short ethernet cord into the modem and then into the adapter, next plug a phone wire into the adapter then plug it into the incoming jack in your phone box.
If you have cable internet you can connect your adapter to your cable modem and connect a 4 phone cordless system or run the phone line from your adapter outside to the d-mark box for your old phone system and then disconnect the incoming line from its jack and connect the new phone line into that jack.
Everything will work fine using either of these methods. It is much easier and more secure just using the cordless phones or in some cases using wireless phone jacks. Any body of adult age can easily do this using the cordless phones or jacks. If any one says it is hard or doesn't work, they don't know what they are talking about.
house wiring & alternatives COMMENT
by a_dowdell - 10/18/05 2:32 PM In reply to: house wiring & alternatives by r_kisselWHY WAIST TIME WIRING UP THE HOUSE. pEOPLE HARDLY EVER USE A CORDED PHONE ANYWAY. ALSO IF THERE IS A PROBLEM USE YOU CELL PFONE FOR POWER OUTAGES OR DISCONNECTION ISUES ALONG WITH 911 SERVICE. NO BRAINER....
disconnection of traditional land phone lines
by Timmahh - 10/16/05 10:36 AM In reply to: Disconnecting From Landline by droy99you were given the correct information, but as you found out, it can be tricky dependant on your home phone network. this is what i would do in your case,
find the line coming into your house box ( the outside box your landline provider fixes to your home ), and locate the line that comes into your box form your providers lines at the road... take a pair of wire cutters and cut it just below the box. But before you do that, go ahead and undo the 2 screws and remove the wires connected to the screws. these do carry a very low level of current, but dont worry, it is only enought to tickle. unscrew them from the terminals, fold the wires back so they wont touch each other or the terminals, then check for dialtone, if you still have dial tone, cut the incoming line right below the house box. this will work, unless you have a completely seperate phone line servicing your home, then you may need to phone company to come and disconnect all incoming phone service lines, but removeing the lines from the screw terminals should solve this problem.
HTH
Tim Locke
cutting phone lines
by cnetfan - 10/20/05 10:14 PM In reply to: disconnection of traditional land phone lines by TimmahhWe have dial tone for 911 service on our land lines here in TN 37876 area. Cutting the lines would get rid of the 911 service. I tried to plug into the lines with the voip phones and got a busy signal. I was told by my wirless security service that they are still using the land lines and if they are cut the police will be called. My question to you is what is the purpose of cutting the lines? I have the AT&T call disavantage service and experience all the same problems as many of the other members and even more, like all my calls go to voice mail.No one can reach me except the folks at AT&T after each and evey unplug and plug session. What a joke. I can not beleave that they charge me for their service. They should pay my cell bills for the time I waste on the phone with them. When I complain thay ask me if I want to cut off their service. I tell them yes I do, but untill now did not know where to go for new service. I may try vonage.
Thank you
Connecting Vonage to whole house telephone wiring
by genations - 3/11/05 8:32 AM In reply to: getting rid of your home phone? by Stan ChambersI have one telephone connected to the telephone router, supplied by Vonage and it works very well. I wish to discontinue SBC service and hook my four extension phones to Vonage. Assuming that this can be done, I know where the telephone box is and how to get into it. What must I do to disconnect SBC and how do I hook Vonage into my telephone system?
You do not have to disconnect outside wiring
by kmarchal - 3/16/05 2:19 PM In reply to: Connecting Vonage to whole house telephone wiring by genationsWhat I did is, I went from my Vonage ATA to the wall RJ11. Your house wiring is wired in series. I can plug into any of my homes RJ11 connection in my house with my phones. But I did eventually disconnect from outside.
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