Communications: Voice, Radio and Data - Parallel VoIP and Landline setup

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OldJimmy
10-02-09, 05:08 PM
My primitive logic tells me this should be okay, but I wanted to run it by you guys to discover any flaws or gotchas.

All my house voice wiring comes into a panel and all four pairs of each cable are punched down in a Suttle 8-port 110 data block.

I have a round line cord running from the Vonage VoIP device to the panel, and the red/green wires are punched to the first/blue pair on the incoming line punch of the Suttle block. With this arrangement, I have VoIP dialtone at each jack in the house.

We have recently added a cheap landline to allow our alarm system to be monitored. I know this can potentially be done over the VoIP line, but there are sometimes challenges and I didn't want to deal with them. Plus, I like having a non-VoIP line to use during power outages if necessary.

What I would like to do is make the dialtone from the landline available to the other house jacks on the second/orange pair. I thought I could bring the landline dialtone from the RJ31X of the alarm system and punch it to the second pair position on the Suttle punch block, and that would be it.

Am I missing something? Could it be this easy? Hope this isn't a confusing word-picture.

An associated question is: to run a single line phone off the second pair, does anyone make an RJ11 line cord that picks up the second pair at the wall jack and routes them to the first pair at the phone device end? Or, just easier to reterminate that one wall jack?

Thanks!!


classicsat
10-02-09, 06:24 PM
It is that esy.

To use the second line, you can get jack splitters which split a two line jack into each line, a two line switch, or a two line phone.

OldJimmy
10-02-09, 08:28 PM
Thanks, classicsat! I'm always leery when something seems too easy and common-sensical. Too many years of getting burned after observing "Oh, that's no problem; I can do that!"