So I am using Voice over IP through T Mobile. I am using AT&T for my DSL provider as well. Never though about the phone line thing when I started my Dish Network account back up. Is the only option I have is to run an Ethernet connection to my router in a completely different room??? What about my 522 on the second level of the house? I called up Dish and the first tech told me to hook my phone line into the wall with a DSL filter and plug the phone line into the DSL side of the filter which would give me the ethernet connection. Is that right? The second rep I call stumbled around and then asked me to call the back and select their internet tech support team for assistance. Just looking for a simple answer. Thanks for your help.
Question about Voice over IP set in my house
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There's something you can try, I am assuming that you have existing phone outlets at your television.
Normally for people with VOIP like vonage who are not using any other telephone service you could go into your telephone NID (the grey box outside your home) and disconnect ma bell, then "backfeed" your vonage box into a phone outlet so it'll feed your whole house.
This my idea, never tried it but I wonder if it would work...
Use the DSL filter, the DATA/Phone one and plug that into your phone outlet, plug your modem on the data side, then plug your tmobile box into the phone side...
Now use the rest of your filters wherever you have a phone.
This is experimental whatever happens is on your own shoulders...
Normally for people with VOIP like vonage who are not using any other telephone service you could go into your telephone NID (the grey box outside your home) and disconnect ma bell, then "backfeed" your vonage box into a phone outlet so it'll feed your whole house.
This my idea, never tried it but I wonder if it would work...
Use the DSL filter, the DATA/Phone one and plug that into your phone outlet, plug your modem on the data side, then plug your tmobile box into the phone side...
Now use the rest of your filters wherever you have a phone.
This is experimental whatever happens is on your own shoulders...
For whatever reason, DISH hasn't seen fit to fully implement the Internet connection as a replacement for the phone line. It works for getting you out of having to pay an additional tuner fee, but you can't do much of the interactive stuff with it like checking your bill or upgrading your services.
If the issue is getting dinged for the extra tuner fee, run an Ethernet cable to the STB or buy a HomePlug adapter and hook that to your router.
If the issue is getting dinged for the extra tuner fee, run an Ethernet cable to the STB or buy a HomePlug adapter and hook that to your router.
My 622 is hooked up via Vonage, my sisters setup is hooked up that way, and so is my Aunts.
All no problemo.
All no problemo.
Mahalo Yaz,
I should try again. Either my VoIP carrier or Dish L612 s/w upgrade may have addressed it.
I have vonage as well and it has worked flawless with my dish receivers and alarms systems.
I have my alarm hooked directly to the vonage VoIP bridge and from my alarm to the rest of the home phone lines. You must disconnect the hard line from the telephone company at the grey wall wort that is on the side of your house or in your garage.
I done this at two homes without a problem so far.
