bstratt
Cleared for Takeoff
Background - we had two regular lines in the house. All phones were on line 1, computer modem and fax on line 2. We decided to try Vonage which has worked great. My original plan was to discontinue line 2, and cancel all services on line 1 except for basic local access in the event of emergencies and switch the fax to line 1. My wife wanted to maintain the line 1 # as our main line phone number so I reversed the above. Transferred our line 1 phone number to Vonage, cancelled line 1 but kept line 2 as basic only.
Problem - fax machine is the only line in the house that can get dial tone and my TIVO as well as alarm system (hard wired) use line 1. I've lost all TIVO services as well as alarm system.
Tried - First, as my phones don't have two line capability, I went to radio shack and picked up two-line splitters. Put them into the jacks and plugged the phone into Line 2 jack - nothing. Second, I then thought MAYBE all the phone jacks in the house don't have two line capability, a stretch but I couldn't figure things out. I had the bright idea of making line 2 into line 1 (also cheaper as I don't need a bunch of splitters). Went outside to the main phone junction box and determined that blue & white were line 1 and orange & white were line 2. I switched the wires on the terminals so the orange & white now connected to the former blue & white terminals and vice versa - tried the phone - nothing. Returned them to former terminals - fax now has dial tone again.
What am I missing? or do I bite the bullet and phone the repair people now?
Problem - fax machine is the only line in the house that can get dial tone and my TIVO as well as alarm system (hard wired) use line 1. I've lost all TIVO services as well as alarm system.
Tried - First, as my phones don't have two line capability, I went to radio shack and picked up two-line splitters. Put them into the jacks and plugged the phone into Line 2 jack - nothing. Second, I then thought MAYBE all the phone jacks in the house don't have two line capability, a stretch but I couldn't figure things out. I had the bright idea of making line 2 into line 1 (also cheaper as I don't need a bunch of splitters). Went outside to the main phone junction box and determined that blue & white were line 1 and orange & white were line 2. I switched the wires on the terminals so the orange & white now connected to the former blue & white terminals and vice versa - tried the phone - nothing. Returned them to former terminals - fax now has dial tone again.
What am I missing? or do I bite the bullet and phone the repair people now?
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