yunt.net

I found a decent article on how to retrofit your home’s phone lines to use a VoIP (voice over internet protocol) service. Lisa had been hesitant about services like Vonage as we’d be reliant on our broadband internet connection for phone service in an emergency. This article explained how to keep your legacy land line running in parallel with VoIP (lines 1 and 2).

Telecom Tips – Wiring Your Home For VoIP Service by Brian McConnell — Broadband phone services such as Lingo and Vonage enable you to consolidate all of your voice and data services to run over a single broadband connection. The problem… you home phone wiring was never designed with broadband in mind. Here’s how you can fix that.