Using home phone wiring

[new936]

I have read the http://voip.about.com/od/requirements/h ... ToVoIP.htm on how to use the existing home wiring. I had the internet and phone from Rogers with this box in the house. I took out the phone plug from this box and pluged the telephone cable from Linksys ATA to the wall jack and all the existing phones are working.

I just want to make sure that I am doing sufficient to disconnect the PSTN so that it is not going to damage my ATA. Access to the out side box is not possible as it seems that it is locked.

I have removed the incoming phone plug from this box. The other must be for the internet.

Am I doing right thing or need to do something else?

[Jake]

I have read the http://voip.about.com/od/requirements/h ... ToVoIP.htm on how to use the existing home wiring. I had the internet and phone from Rogers with this box in the house. I took out the phone plug from this box to disconnect the wiring and pluged the telephone cable from ATA to the jack and all the existing phones are working.

I just want to make sure that I am doing sufficient to disconnect the PSTN so that it is not going to damage my ATA. Access to the out side box is not possible as it seems that it is locked.

I have removed the incoming phone plug from this box. The other must be for the internet.

Am I doing right thing or need to do something else?

This is exactly what I did at my friends house. Rogers will have already disconnected your incoming phone line (or at least they should have) when they installed the box in your picture. That box is essentially an ATA so you did right by pulling out the lead from that and plugging it into your ATA.

[new936]

Thanks Jack. It was the new house , so never had any phone line. I didn't know that Rogers phone was VOIP

I have read the http://voip.about.com/od/requirements/h ... ToVoIP.htm on how to use the existing home wiring. I had the internet and phone from Rogers with this box in the house. I took out the phone plug from this box to disconnect the wiring and pluged the telephone cable from ATA to the jack and all the existing phones are working.

I just want to make sure that I am doing sufficient to disconnect the PSTN so that it is not going to damage my ATA. Access to the out side box is not possible as it seems that it is locked.

I have removed the incoming phone plug from this box. The other must be for the internet.

Am I doing right thing or need to do something else?

This is exactly what I did at my friends house. Rogers will have already disconnected your incoming phone line (or at least they should have) when they installed the box in your picture. That box is essentially an ATA so you did right by pulling out the lead from that and plugging it into your ATA.

[new936]

It is bit off topic, but can any one guide me to connect all the phone wall jacks in the house. Rogers guy connected 3 jacks in the house and did something so that when I install another one, a previous one stops working. Because of this, I can only have 3 working at my house at any given time.