Whole Home Phone With Rogers Internet

[lynette]

How do I use my existing Bell lines with my Linksys 2102 ATA and Rogers modem? Is there a possible solution without going completely cordless?

[neronut]

Hello there,

This post has some Information. (http://forum.fongo.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5038#p26802) One thing to remember is that your Bell line needs to be disconnected if you are using your home's phone lines. You don't want the ATA to come in contact with their power system. Most of the time there is one outdoor line that comes into your one onto some connection blocks. It should be easy to make sure this isn't connected.

Hope this helps,

[dibsmft]

What I did while I still had BellAliant PSTN phone was to put in direct new phone wiring from the incoming phone junction to the room where I had the the DSL modem installed. This was because I dicovered that the house phone wiring was not as good as I would have expected (corrosion at the junction boxes and some messy wiring within the mail juction box). This solved the problem that I had with flakey connectivity of the new modem provided by the phone company/ISP (the old moden worked just fine on the original wires). Since the new phone wire contained enough wires I then wired the PSTN line to the spare wires in the new wire giving me connection to the PSTN (filtered) line and a line for the internet (non-filtered) and this worked perfectly. When I dumped the PSTN phone and changed to a voip/DID system I completely disconnected the house phone wiring from the main junction box and put in a "voip" junction box isolated from the old (retained external line now used for the intenet only). My ATA box now plugs into the old phone system wires and works perfectly). I have replaced some of the house phone wiring and junction boxes mostly due to corrosion. (If you have problems with your modem connection or phones it is worth checking for corrosion).
If you intend to use your old phone wiring for your voip phone make sure that it is isolated from the old wiring and check with a volmeter to make sure that the lines are really dead. My Grandstream GS286 can easily handle 2 old style PSTN phones and a cordless phone set.
If you are on cable internet then the story is a little different but still make sure that you voip system is isolated from PSTN.