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...And finally, how to hook it up, so all of the phones in your house will work? If you have made the change, got the new Vonage service all working on the first phone ...and if you are using the number transportibility feature, you have waited the obligatory two weeks for your old phone company to give you your number back You are all ready to play phone man.

Phone wires are generally not very dangerous at all. Really the only way you can ever usually get zapped is if you are hanging on to the bare wires tightly with sweaty hands, the very second the phone rings. I did that once. If the service from the old phone company is already turned off, that should not be a concern. Of course if you are in the middle of a thunderstorm, that is not a very good time to be messing with any kind of wires, phone or otherwise.

The way I am showing you here how to do it, you should not have to touch any bare wires at all in the first place. If you need any phone wiring done in the Detroit Michigan area please give me a call, I'll be glad to help out. I used to work for a phone company myself.

Once you have one phone working like this.

The next thing to do if you are using Cable Internet Service is unplug your house wiring from the old useless phone line that comes from the Phone Company at what is called the demarcation point, or the d-mark or NIU or NID. You know, the phone plug on the outside of your house, inside that little grey box. All you usually need is a screwdriver to open the box, to just unplug the one plug.

This will prevent any problems coming from outside and getting back into the phone equipment inside your house. Just in case your old phone company gets their wires crossed.

If you are using DSL and using the Vonage on a second line we'll explain that a bit later on. If you live in an apartment building or are doing a multi-line installation I would suggest that you call in a pro.

Once that gets unplugged, all the phones in your house should be completely dead, except the first one still plugged into the Vonage box. Tape up that plug you just unplugged and lable it with a permanent marker, so nobody gets any bright ideas to try and go plug it back in again.

The next thing after that is to get the Vonage plugged into your house phone wiring. The easiest way to do this is with a phone line splitter. You could just unplug that first phone and plug the Vonage straight into the wall instead if you wanted to, but then you probably would not have another phone jack close by to plug the phone back into.

Phone Jack
Phone - Phone Cord - Phone Splitter - Phone Cord - Vonage Box

Once the Vonage box gets plugged into your home phone wiring than all the rest of the phones in your house should start working just fine. If they don't work, you probably went and got the wrong kind of phone splitter back out of the kitchen drawer again. Remember why it got thrown in there in the first place? All that is needed is the regular type of single phone line splitter from the dollar store or your local hardware. Not the fancy line-one / line-two type of splitter, those won't work here.