Wiring your phonelines in your house through ATA.

[Ed_tech]

Has anyone successfully wired their house to their ata? I have 3 house phone cables from 3 different rooms connecting to a phone block and from that block I have a phone patch cable plugged into port line1 of my Linksys PAP2T ATA.
Unfornately, even though a receive a dial tone, I also have static and I do not receive in/outbound calls.
If I plug my phone directly into the port line 1 of the ATA everthing works!
I know I probably could hook a wireless base phone directly to the ata port and run around with the handset. But that would be too easy!
Is the problem a loss of signal? Do I need some kind of amplifier?

Thanks
Ed_tech

[FONGO_steve]

The PAP2T has an adjustable ring voltage in the web UI, try tweaking this a little.
I believe Jake has done this with a PAP2T - let's see if he can offer some input if he sees this

[Jake]

I have all sorts running from my PAP2T, probably too much but I thought I would chuck it all on and see what happens, then work my way back. After I connected it all, it all seemed to work OK so I left it.

Here is what I have and what I did.

Port 1
4 x bedroom jacks - 2 with phones attached
Lounge walkabout phone system
Kitchen phone
Fax Machine

Port 2
2nd walkabout phone system.

Both ports on the PAP2T is connected to a 3CX PBX on a computer in the basement, but I don't think that makes much difference.

How I connected them to my house jacks is -
1. Disconnect the incoming line to the main phone block in the basement. This left me with all the jacks in the house just connected to themselves.
2. I then took a phone lead that normally connects a phone to the jack and connected it between Port 1 and any phone jack. This connected all the phone jacks to my PAP2T and nothing else apart from the phone that are connected to the jacks.
3. Connect the ADSL modem to the phone line I disconnected in step 1. I had a clean cable going to the jack where my modem is, so I just disconnected this from all the other house jacks and connected it straight to the jack where my modem is.

What I suspect is happening with you is your house jacks are still all connected to the incoming phone line which is why you are getting rubbish on the line.
You need to spilt the cables out. The house jacks you want to use phones on, make sure they are only connected to the PAP2T and not to the incoming phone line. If you have ADSL, connect only the modems jack to the incoming phone line so you still get internet. If you have cable then you won't need to do this.

One thing I will say is it shouldn't make any difference how many jacks you have connected to the PAP2T (you could have 100), just the amount of phones that are connected to the jacks. If there is nothing plugged into the jack it should have no effect on things because the jack is not consuming any power. Try with just one phone connected, once you have made sure the house jacks are isolated from the incoming line.

Hope this helps, but please feel free to ask questions.

Jake

[Ed_tech]

Thanks for your feedback, I did manage to get it working. I happened to loop the second block of room lines back to the original Bell block when the second block should only be directly connected to the ATA . My OOP's! Still had the Bell service concept in mind.

Thanks again!