How to Connect VoIP Phone Service to a Home Phone System Iowa

Did you know you can hook up all your existing house phones and use VOIP (Voice-over-Internet Protocol) right in the comfort of your own home if your not using your local phone company service? Here's how!

Local Companies

LightEdge Solutions
515-471-1000
666 Walnut Street, Suite 1900
Des Moines, IA
Ringsted Tel Co
(712) 866-1456
19 W Maple St
Ringsted, IA
Keystone Communications
(319) 442-3241
86 Main St
Keystone, IA
Webster-Calhoun Cooperative Telephone Association
(515) 352-3151
1004 Market St
Gowrie, IA
Iamo Telephone Co
(712) 583-3232
Coin, IA
Sac County Mutual Telephone Co
(712) 668-2200
Odebolt, IA
South Central Communications Inc
(641) 446-4212
600 NW Church St
Leon, IA
Grand Mound Cooperative Telephone Association
(563) 847-3000
705 Clinton St
Grand Mound, IA
Cascade Communications
(563) 852-3710
106 Taylor St SE
Cascade, IA
Onslow Co-Operative Telephone Association
(563) 485-2833
PO Box 6
Onslow, IA

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Steps

  1. Go out to your demarcation point on the side of your house where your house connects to your local phone company, and disconnect the incoming phone line from the network. This will isolate your in-house phone line from the phone company and protect your VoIP adapter from damage. Complete instructions for doing this can be found at Resources for Resources for Michigan Telephone Users - How to Distribute VoIP Throughout a Home
  2. Plug one end of a RJ-11 phone wire into the phone port of the VoIP adapter and the other end into the telephone wall outlet. This will activate all your existing home phone wiring on the VOIP phone service.

Tips

  • Remember that you will lose your VoIP phone service when your broadband service goes out. You will also lose your VoIP service when the power goes out, unless you have your modem, router, and VoIP adapter connected to a good Uninterruptable Power Supply, which will extend the time that your service will operate during a power outage.
  • Activate the VOIP phone service with one phone connected to the phone adapter before you try to connect it to your home wiring.

Warnings

  • Do Not try connecting a Phone adapter to a live phone jack without disconnecting the demarcation point. This will overload your phone adapter and then you would have to replace it.
  • Most VOIP companies have Terms of Service wording that releases them from liability for basically anything. This includes service outages and damaged equipment. Use at your own risk.

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Featured Local Company

LightEdge Solutions

515-471-1000
666 Walnut Street, Suite 1900
Des Moines, IA
http://www.lightedge.com

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