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Originally Posted by Cleo
Vonage modem arrived today. I plugged it in to the power and my ethernet hub, and a phone into it and the phone worked.
Then I went outside and disconnected from the company and plugged the Vonage modem into my house's phone jack and all my house phones worked.
That was the easy part…
I had this big rat's nest of wires outside that is my house's phone wires that I needed to go through and figure out which ones went to my bedroom, living room, office, alarm system, and the ADSL modem. I was going to leave the alarm on the Vonage system since that seemed easiest but somehow in separating the ADSL modem wire from the rest of the house's wires nothing ended up working so I had to trace each wire by plugging a cordless phone into it and then testing which wires outside made that line work. Also the alarm system was wired in such a way that first my phone passed through it and then into my house so that it could hang up the line if it was busy and it needed to make a call.
Got everything hooked back up and working. Now there is just two sets of wires going to the phone company's box, one for the alarm and one for the ADSL modem.
Tomorrow Bellsouth is putting in a new line so that I can have Earthlink move the ADSL to it and then I can start the transfer of my phone number to Vonage.
In the meantime I forwarded my home number into the Vonage temp number that they gave me and everything seems to be working correctly.
Since I have Vonage set to ring my house and cell phone at the same time it's really nice the way if I'm on the phone both my call waiting and cell phone rings at the same time and then I can either answer it form my home phone or cell phone or just let my cell's voice mail get it.
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You know another nice feature??? You can have a voice mail file emailed to you. So, all you have to do is click on the file and listen. And, that way, you never lose any voice mail messages.