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VOIP thru the house wiring
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Posted by: RodeoClown11

I am interested in wiring my house phone jacks using my Lingo VOIP adapter. I have a structured wiring panel with Cat 5 out to all the phone jacks. The current configuration has the POTS line coming in to a 10 way cat5 hub. Is it possible to connect the wires from a phone cord from the VOIP to the back of the cat5 hub to distribute phone signal to all the phone outlets in the house? Any advice would be appreciated.
John

Posted by: RodeoClown11

Nevermind guys, I figured it out. Just disconnected the house line from out side and plugged the VOIP into one of the jacks on the cat5 hub.

Posted by: whitenack

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Originally Posted by RodeoClown11

Nevermind guys, I figured it out. Just disconnected the house line from out side and plugged the VOIP into one of the jacks on the cat5 hub.

Yep, that's all it takes. Be sure to lable the POTS line with black tape and a note not to connect without consent of the property owner. This keeps some doofus phone worker from accidently connecting things back up and frying your router.

Posted by: jase88

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Originally Posted by whitenack

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Originally Posted by RodeoClown11

Nevermind guys, I figured it out. Just disconnected the house line from out side and plugged the VOIP into one of the jacks on the cat5 hub.

Agreed. I've done this for analog fax lines with the office Cisco VOIP system, using CAT6 lines connected to POE switches. It works just fine.

Posted by: jack8beans2

I was wondering how to do this. I will try it with my vonage system and see how it works.

Posted by: whitenack

Keep in mind that the phone line in your house is just like any other electrical line, all jacks need to be connected to receive the service. I have an older house that only had two jacks, but those two jacks were wired separately from the box. In other words, they weren't connected to each other, they just ran back to the box and the POTS line made the connection for me. I ended up having to splice the lines together myself when I disconnect POTS. However, it was easy to splice together.

So, the point of all that was to say that if for some reason it doesn't work, it is probably because all of the jacks are not connected to each other.