-=PCTechTalk=- Re: 2 two line phones (was What is ISP?)
- From: DeaconDeamon@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 15:16:25 +0000
HB
Which router do you have? Are the lights for line 1 and line 2 both on?
Let me know what you have and we'll go from there.
Steve
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>
> First, if the mods feel I should take this offline, I understand and will.
>
> Steve,
> At our old place, we had vonage, with 1 two line phone and 3 cordless
> phones. All worked fine.
> At our new place, my wife's office is in another building, too far for
> the cordless phones to work. Also, she wants a base unit with speaker phone
> function in her office.
> Currently, the set up here is as the last place. No problems with either
> phone hooked up alone. To address her desires, I figured I would just put two
> splitters coming out of the router - one each for line 1 and line 2. Then run
> phone lines from each splitter to each 2 two line phone.
> Both phones are panasonic and come with two phone lines. Line 1 phone
> line is a 4 contact wire, and line 2 is a 2 contact wire. My problem seems to
> be
> in the 2 contact wire side. It seems that I need another 2 contact wire to
> finish setting up my test template (router to splitter). And 2 contact wire
> is
> not something stocked on the shelf. After the template is working right, then
> I
> will run the wires under the house and out to her office.
> So, I'm kind of in the brainstorming mode. One, is to ask vonage - their
> questionnaire also asks for make and model of phones being used. Two is to
> get CAT3 wire (I think this is phone line quality) and make a 2 contact wire
> (router to splitter).
> It makes sense that the latter set up ought to work (for line 2), using
> only 2 contact wire from router to splitter, and splitter to the phone. I
> would think that if 4 contact wire could be used in line 2, then panasonic
> would
> have supplied it instead of a 2 contact wire. At the same time, it's kind of
> strange that a 4 contact wire wouldn't work since line 2 only uses two of the
> four available wires. I dunno. Hope my thinking/troubleshooting was easy to
> follow.
>
> Thanks for allowing me to put my thoughts to paper,
>
> HB
>
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