On the Grandstream - Why Can't You Do This?

[mobilelawyer]

My biggest problem is faulty memory! When we moved into our house in the early 90's, we only had to worry about POTS. But several years later, when we added a second telephone line, yours truly somehow figured out that there were enough spare wires to put dual jacks in several places: one computer line, and one telephone line.

I just can't remember exactly what I did. I am going to have to check and verify, but my best recollection is that each phone outlet was double-wired when the house was built, leaving one wire unused, and I simply got double- jack wall plates and used the wires on the second line for the second jack.I could be wrong about that. I may have simply used an unused pair in the bundle to serve the second jack.

When I ordered my dry- loop dsl line, It appeared to me that the phone guy simply brought the dry loop jack off the network interface, and hooked that jack into the same female connection that served my old computer line.

When I saw he had done this, I condluded I was not going to have to fool with any wires at all. I simply hooked our telephone to the old POTS line, pending porting that number to VOIPO, and I got a dial tone, and it worked fine.

I had the dry loop hooked up to the old computer line wall jack, and it worked swimmingly from the first day I connected.

The old POTS/DSL line is now turned off and unused since the port went through.

But, given what I have read here, I think some of my assumptions and recollections about the wiring will have to be verified.

If my recollection had been correct, then simply plugging the second Grandstream phone outlet into the unused POTS jack should have worked, but it did not. I always wondered how those phone guys sorted out those huge bundles of wires. Now I guess I am going to have to!