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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Can any of you gadgety people help me out?
I recently switched from my local landline phone company to Vonage. Setting up the phone and router, going through the process has all been pretty easy. And I'm saving a bundle.
Last night, at about 1 am, my alarm system starts to beep. The key pad says "Comm failure" and it occurs to me that the alarm system probably "talks" to the telephone lines. Which are now dormant. And then I realised, my TiVo is going to want to make a phone call on Saturday, and there's no dial tone in the wall there either.
Any suggestions as to how to get the Vonage service to travel through my existing phone jacks? Is there some simple piece of hardware I can buy to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance. Fell free to PM me if I haven't provided essential information.
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It shouldn't be a problem:
http://www.vonage.com/help_knowledge...hp?article=649
(I thought Vonage presumed this is how it's done--you plug your entire internal phone system into the Vonage jack, which then goes into the broadband.)
BTW, on Tivo, you should get a network adapter, wireless if necessary, and have it get on your network as well. The info updates are faster and you can program tivo from work (or elsewhere, even the vomitorium, if you have internet access there).
