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Vonage and land line phone?
I have vonage and I kept a landline phone for back up and its kinda handy, scince I run a biz and have a teenager in the house. I cant get a local number so we use the vonage pretty much for outgoing long distance. My problem is when we use the vonage, and someone calls us on the landline phone, it disconnects the dsl and inturn the vonage, any way to avoid that?
Public Comments
- You'r DSL line is probably not configured correctly. Vonage use you'r Internet Data ( around 90% ) of the Land line data possibility. The Telco will still keep ( around 10% ) for the Telephone standard use. If you'r DNS setup is incorect the 10% for the telco can be 90% and vice-versa. Do you use the splitter ? Some ISP will Filter DNS/IP of Vonage to avoid the use of a other VoIP compagnie. To you use the KeepBanwith of Vonage Option ?
- Check out www.rebatetech.com - there are VOIP solutions that work with your vonage and might help you avoid missed calls. Plus they give cash back rebates on tech products.
- it is possible, and seems likely that the dsl filters are not connected to your phones properly, or may be defective.. make sure your phones all have dsl filters (except the vonage phone line) you did not mention if you are using 2 line phones, you did not mention if your vonage is connected to the existing wiring in your home.. if your vonage is connected to the inside wiring of your home, or you are using 2 line phones, I recommend for troubleshooting purposes, remove vonage from your existing wiring, and to use seprate single line phones, once you isolate and resolve the problem you can go back to using everything as you normallay do..
- It sounds as if either you don't have the DSL filters properly installed... or one of your ports are wired backwards, cross-connecting your DSL line with your phone line. Every phone connection has the ability of having two phone lines(a primary and secondary). Your phone line is always connected to your primary line, and your DSL is always connected to your secondary. If they wired one of your ports backwards, then they are allowing the phone signal to cross over onto the DSL connection, instead of remaining separate.
- call your dsl provider. this should not be happening
