How to Activate All of Your Home's Phone Outlets for VoIP Phone Service With DSL Internet

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: In the network interface box outside your house

   This connects all of the phone jacks at a single point.
   
   Use a short terminal strip.
   
   You could also use wire nuts or similar connectors.
   
   Tie only wires that are exactly the same together.
   
   Do not tie the blue wires to the blue/white wires. ,,,,, These connections are made with standard modular phone cords. , Your VoIP device will now provide a dial tone to all of your house's phone jacks.
   
   Phones plugged into all jacks will be on the same VoIP line.
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   Step 2: disconnect all blue & blue/white pairs (the voice line) from the terminals that connect to each phone jack.

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   Step 3: Electrically tie together all of the blue and all of the blue/white wires.

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   Step 4: Connect the orange and orange/white wires (the DSL line) to each phone jack.

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   Step 5: Inside the house

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   Step 6: install a two-jack faceplate on the outlet you wish to connect your VoIP device to.

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   Step 7: On one of the two jacks

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   Step 8: connect the blue & blue white wires (the voice line)

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   Step 9: On the other jack

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    Step 10: connect the orange & orange/white wires (the DSL line)

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    Step 11: Install the faceplate

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    Step 12: then connect the phone jack on the VoIP device to the voice jack

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    Step 13: and connect your modem to the DSL jack.

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    Step 14: Enjoy your new VoIP device.

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