I have VONAGE, (voice over IP) how can I make all the phone jacks in my home live?

Question

The only phone I have is connected to the router, but if I plug in another phone into a phone jack on a wall, it doesn't work? Can anyone help?

Answer 1

There are ways to solve this:

1) If you really want to reuse the inside wiring of your home, all of the lines need to terminate to your Vonage telephone adaptor. Probably need to move your router and adaptor to the point where all your phone lines start (in the basement?) and plug them all into the phone adaptor. There's probably a distribution box where the single phone line is distributed to all of your wall jacks.

2) If you reuse the phone sets, you could use the devices that plug into your electrical outlets, thereby using your electrical wiring to carry phone signals. Then you won't have to move your router and phone adaptor.

3) Buy a multi-handset phone system (5.8 GHz, to stay away from your wireless router's frequency at 2.4 GHz) and plug the base directly into your phone adaptor. No wiring rerouting, no electric phone adaptors.

Answer 2

The other Phone jack need to be reran from the router

Answer 3

all other extensions you don't put into the phone-jack...with vonage you just need an electric outlet...I have the base-phone in the office near my computer and all other 6 extension phones in any electrical outlet...that's the beauty about VoIP!!