House Not Boat

[JLR]

Since the HOF forum members are the smartest around, I figure I would run this by you folks. I have many cordless phones in my house. However, the wiring to the jacks of all but one base station is, well, let's just say not up to Hatteras standards. The signal comes in the house to a cable model and the base station connected to it works fine. I am told I have voip telephone service. So, rather than try to rewire the house with new jacks, I was hoping the brilliant people here can come up with a plan or suggestion for either voip cordless phones, wifi phones or long range basic cordless phones. We are not ready to rely just on our cell phones but I'd hate to go out and buy old technology to replace the several cordless base station phones I need to replace because the jacks they are plugged into are no longer active. Any ideas? Although I usually don't ask, I'd prefer first hand experience with any suggestions. My goal is to have about six phones I can spread around the house. The house itself is about 4,500 square feet if that matters. I do have wifi though out the house. Thanks.

 

[SEVEN]

I’m surprised to hear you have phone lines. I gave them up years ago when cell phones became unlimited. Do you need the hard wire for security reasons? Or the use of computers?

 

[Boatsb]

If the voip was installed correctly all the lines will be connected to it just like before.

You should be able to run a cord from the voip modem to the wall and tgen all the connected jacks will work.

 

[MadHatter53]

Like Scott said, take a basichone cord plug one end into VoIP modem then other into walk one jack. You might need to disconnect your wiring from where it connect to,the old orig phone co wiring so your pumping your VoIP out into street.

 

[JLR]

The problem is that the closest jack to the modem feeds the rest of the jacks in the house. When I connect anything into that jack, it messes up all my phones. I have rewired that jack and checked all the other jacks fed by that jack and I suspect there is a wiring issue somewhere in the walls after the feed jack. So, I need a way either to broadcast the line feed from the modem with a more robust cordless phone booster or, somehow use my wifi router to broadcast the phone signal and buy phones that connect to the wifi in the house. I do not want to use a setup that relies on my cell phones for handsets through the house because I do not want to have to leave my cell phone near any base unit. My perfect solution would be a long range or boosted cordless phone system. Right now, I do have two cordless phones that work but because of mirrors and range, they will not reach all areas in the house. Finally, I have an elderly parent in the house that needs a land line phone, not a cell phone, near her bed at all times.

 

[tom5518]

The problem is that the closest jack to the modem feeds the rest of the jacks in the house. When I connect anything into that jack, it messes up all my phones. I have rewired that jack and checked all the other jacks fed by that jack and I suspect there is a wiring issue somewhere in the walls after the feed jack. So, I need a way either to broadcast the line feed from the modem with a more robust cordless phone booster or, somehow use my wifi router to broadcast the phone signal and buy phones that connect to the wifi in the house. I do not want to use a setup that relies on my cell phones for handsets through the house because I do not want to have to leave my cell phone near any base unit. My perfect solution would be a long range or boosted cordless phone system. Right now, I do have two cordless phones that work but because of mirrors and range, they will not reach all areas in the house. Finally, I have an elderly parent in the house that needs a land line phone, not a cell phone, near her bed at all times.

I went through something similar a couple of years ago. I have ATT Uverse for everything and it took three house calls for the tech to track down the problem, or rather, problems in the phone wiring throughout the house. Phone wiring from back in the day is brittle and cheap. If I had any brains I would have just had them rewire the house. It is actually easier and more reliable.