Residential phone solutions and applications

[bwyatt]

It all depends on whether the jacks in your house are wired for two pair.

Good suggestion. I'm going to guess... some are and some aren't.

I'm porting my phone number and have a temporary number now. I suppose it would be best to wait until the dust settles and the number is moved before I try it?

[tritch]

Just a point to remember for others reading this thread and thinking about using their house wiring. This works fine and dandy for those who have cable service for their ISP, but for those who use DSL it's another story. You will have to ensure that a dedicated wire pair from the NID is used exclusively to the DSL modem. Hopefully, there will be at least 2 other unused wire pairs that can be isolated at the NID so that they can be used at the wall jacks in the house for ATA line 1 and line 2 ports.

If you connect the DSL wire pair to one of the ATA's port by accident, it will likely damage the phone port on the ATA.

[bwyatt]

Good point. Had that very discussion with a friend earlier today.

[caseydoug]

For years I had DSL, with one PSTN line and one VoIP line, all distributed through house wiring. The trick was to put a filter on the incoming phone line at the NID, then split it, with one pair going to the PSTN half of the jacks (inside pair), and the other pair going to the VoIP adapter, and from the VoIP adapter to the outside pair of the jacks. It worked fine, but the inside wiring needs to be pretty clean. Mine runs in a star pattern out from the phone closet.