Replacing the Phone Company at home

[bobham]

Most of the homes in my area wire each room for telephone, with the end point being the telephone company interconnect box outside the house. I simply opened the box (It's designed for this), and unplugged the RJ11 connector to separate my home from the phone company. Then, I plugged my MagicJack into the wall outlet near my computer. Now, all the existing phones in the house are connected to MagicJack! It's a simple tip, but lets you use your existing phones in their existing locations throughout the house.

[dan]

what do you mean by plugged my Magicjack into the wall.. You mean ran a telephone cable from magicjack device to the wall outlet.. sounds like your jacks are all daisy chained good idea thanks

[maine-iac]

In fact, all telephone jacks are wired in parallel, otherwise they wouldn't be able to have more than one phone active on a line at the same time.

[mberlant]

This is no different than any of the other discussions here about using your house wiring to support distributing the MJ Dial Tone.

[coldfusion11]

so can you use more than one phone at a time in your home?

[mberlant]

Up to the limit of the USB power supply that is driving the MJ, yes. This is identical to more than one person engaging in the same conversation using a POTS line, except the MJ dongle is much weaker than the POTS line, so it cannot power as many phones at the same time.

[hendrickracing2009]

you said you unplugged the rj11 telephone wire from the telephone box outside the house and then plugged the mj at the box or in just 1 phone outlet in yor house so all your phones will run off the mj?

[Matt9876]

I'm running 3 phones with electronic ringers on the house wires.

Disconnected POTs line years ago when I got Vonage service.


Changing over to MJ was a breeze and it works mostly ok as my main land line.

[revkev]

Most of the homes in my area wire each room for telephone, with the end point being the telephone company interconnect box outside the house. I simply opened the box (It's designed for this), and unplugged the RJ11 connector to separate my home from the phone company. Then, I plugged my MagicJack into the wall outlet near my computer. Now, all the existing phones in the house are connected to MagicJack! It's a simple tip, but lets you use your existing phones in their existing locations throughout the house.

What's the RJ11 connector look like?

[revkev]

Most of the homes in my area wire each room for telephone, with the end point being the telephone company interconnect box outside the house. I simply opened the box (It's designed for this), and unplugged the RJ11 connector to separate my home from the phone company. Then, I plugged my MagicJack into the wall outlet near my computer. Now, all the existing phones in the house are connected to MagicJack! It's a simple tip, but lets you use your existing phones in their existing locations throughout the house.

What's the RJ11 connector look like?

OK nevermind. I just hooked up my MJ to the wall jack in my office, connected a phone in the bedroom and got a dial tone. So the cable company probably already disconnected the RJ11 when they hooked up their service. I just need to get a splitter or something so I can run my cordless phones coming off the MJ at the computer and keep the other wall extensions open for use.

[maine-iac]

OK nevermind. I just hooked up my MJ to the wall jack in my office, connected a phone in the bedroom and got a dial tone. So the cable company probably already disconnected the RJ11 when they hooked up their service. I just need to get a splitter or something so I can run my cordless phones coming off the MJ at the computer and keep the other wall extensions open for use.

I wouldn't count on it. You better check the telephone company interconnect box before something burns up.

[but2002]

Most of the homes in my area wire each room for telephone, with the end point being the telephone company interconnect box outside the house. I simply opened the box (It's designed for this), and unplugged the RJ11 connector to separate my home from the phone company. Then, I plugged my MagicJack into the wall outlet near my computer. Now, all the existing phones in the house are connected to MagicJack! It's a simple tip, but lets you use your existing phones in their existing locations throughout the house.

What's the RJ11 connector look like?

OK nevermind. I just hooked up my MJ to the wall jack in my office, connected a phone in the bedroom and got a dial tone. So the cable company probably already disconnected the RJ11 when they hooked up their service. I just need to get a splitter or something so I can run my cordless phones coming off the MJ at the computer and keep the other wall extensions open for use.

It's actually VERY doubtful that they disconnected it. It WILL NOT Stop your magicjack from working, but it could damage something