Home Phone Connect Query

Self | July 4, 2014 | self

[bboop]

Does anybody have Verizon Home Phone Connect, and if you do, how do you like it? and do you find it useful? We are concerned that if we get it, our Verizon DSL might be impacted. It would be great to cut our home landline contract, but we're worried about losing the DSL.

Thanks. Loving my FReeper FRiends. Happy Fourth of July.

[Gefn]

I’m going to be moving soon and Ive found Comsumer Reports to be a good place to get unbiased information.

[Disambiguator]

We may start going retro at our house. We have been cell-only for several years now, and have cable just for internet service (we don't watch TV).

We recently came into possession of an old rotary Western Electric Mod. 500 that appears to be in working condition, and want to hook it up to something.

Ours is the same color as the one in the picture.

[B4Ranch]

Look inside the phone jack, locate the red and green wires that are part of the jack. Connect the red and green wires on the phone cord and connect them under the red and green wired screws of the jack. You should have dial tone.

[bboop]

Thanks for all your feedback. Husband has talked to Verizon, been to Verizon shop, and researched endlessly online on all of this. I suggested FR feedback as a way to get a reality check from Real Folks using it, vs advertising, etc. Thanks so much.

[sheana]

Hubby is a retired firefighter with friends all over the place now. He didn’t want to get rid of the landline because they don’t have his cell number and occasionally someone will call. So we did the next best thing.....Magic Jack. Kept the home phone number for $30 or $40 bucks per year and we don’t answer it. It is in our office and goes straight to a Magic Jack voicemail...but we get the message so he can return calls.
Best of both worlds.

[Disambiguator]

Thanks. I’ll have to get some cord, as this phone came from a demolition site, and they cut it off flush against the housing. It’s old enough so there is not an RJ-11 jack on the phone itself.

[sheana]

Magic Jack. See my post #25

[bboop]

thanks

[firebasecody]

I would hesitate cutting the copper tel lines coming into your house. The old Ma Bells are trying to do away with copper all together, and prolly will do such between fiber and wireless. No sense in hurrying up the procedure. Call me old fashioned, but I find the old dial tone, a real tone over copper, re-assuring. Yes, I am an old fart. Former network engineer even.

[JSteff]

Yes, if they put on the home at all y9u can not go back.
We live in a town home development. I wanted to go back to DSL and they siad I could not so I used my Tracfone to call.

I pretended I was the calling for lady who lives 35 ft away in another town house.

When it came time to make the appointment for the service they caught on to what I was attempting to do And said yes if I lived 35 feet away I could get DSL, but if OI really lived 35 feet away at my current location I and could but could not (go back).

So I dropped it and never paid the remaining balance on the Fios and said if they made an issue of it I would transcribe the recording of the phone contacts.

Two months later got a letter of apology from some VP fopr any “errors” in the billing... and they never came after me again about it.

Now using my roommates internet and am using that to also get free phone through Google and obi! I

[JRandomFreeper]

I literally cut the wire between the house and the pole back in 2007, as it was in my way when I was trying to back a moving truck onto my property.

When the kids got me DSL, ATT had to re-run the wires for the twisted pair. They didn't put them across the driveway this time. ;)

/johnny

[bboop]

tx

[tophat9000]

no if you want dsl for internet but no dial phone service...you can get what is called a "dry line" for dsl.. This is a twisted pair that has dsl service on it but no POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) on it

[Does so]

I've converted many a personal phone like yours.

Flip the phone over, remove the screws that hold the plastic cover on. Look for the terminals to which the old red and green wires attach. Find any modern (oval) cord, and "tease-out" the red and green wires yourself, as there are other, un-needed wires within the cord. Slide the new red and green wires under the same screws—tighten. Re-attach the plastic cover—you're done!

[JRandomFreeper]

When I say land line, I mean copper wire of some sort coming into a company demarc on the side of my house for any reason.

I was differentiating between the two, because there is a difference.

And then there is what people generally call a 'land-line'.

/johnny