Telephone jacks

[justjunque]

Joe,

Absolutely!
That's a 554. My parents had the same phone in ivory.
We have one in ivory, and one in green.
But our current kitchen wall phone is a 2554.
A little smaller than the 554, and it's touch tone.
We have one of those in ivory as well, which came with our house, and we have a yellow/gold one that we're currently using.
Actually, it was white when I bought it, but in horrible cosmetic condition.
I bought the gold plastics online, and it looks like new now!
We opted for the extra long handset cord, so we can sit around the corner in the living room while talking on the kitchen phone.

Barry

 

[countryguy]

Reply #18

That same style of phone, in white, was still in use in my mom's kitchen when she died in 2001.

Gary

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

No Lily Tomlin skit like that 'round here...!

Well, in my house, there are NO old fashioned land-lines, whatsoever...

An attempt to plug a phone down here, resulted in zilch, as this one jack is not even connected to anything...

Just one phone line run off the computer's modem, with a no longer-used second one in the bed room plugged into an electrical outlet until the cord and unit and even phone itself all broke...

So, an open 'n shut case!

-- Dave

 

[wayupnorth]

Since I used to work at the phone company, I installed at least 1 jack in every room when I redid this place over in 1995. Cell service in Maine is spotty at best, so I continue to have a regular landline that always works, even in a power outage.

 

[ea56]

Re: Reply #21

We have VOIP from Comcast and phone jacks in almost every room, except the bathrooms. I disconnected the AT&T wires from the service box on the outside of the house and taped a note inside to NOT reconnect, internal wirining now connected to VOIP.

I then back fed the voice signal from the modem into a phone jack nearest the modem. Now ALL the phone jacks have VOIP signal through out the house.

And since the modem has a battery backup, in the event of a power outage, as long as the cable service is still up, we have phone service if we use a corded phone. So, upstairs in both the bedrooms we use corded phones. In the kitchen we have the cordless main station connected to the wall jack and have a cordless extentsion in the living room. It works just great.

And when I’ve had Comcast techs here of other issues they have said I did an excellent job setting this up, and that they’ve never seen another customer that was able to do this on their own.

I just looked it all up online and You Tube was a great resource and help. It was really very easy, all accomplished in less than 20 mins.

Eddie

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Yes, in the event of a power outage in which I was advised to use such as device, I'm afraid I would be helpless as my little one is not connected to anything, so everything is the new fiber-optically-operated stuff...

 

 

 

-- Dave

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[fan-of-fans]

"I then back fed the voice signal from the modem into a phone jack nearest the modem. Now ALL the phone jacks have VOIP signal through out the house.

And since the modem has a battery backup, in the event of a power outage, as long as the cable service is still up, we have phone service if we use a corded phone. So, upstairs in both the bedrooms we use corded phones. In the kitchen we have the cordless main station connected to the wall jack and have a cordless extentsion in the living room. It works just great. "

We have Comcast also and that's what we did too on backfeeding from the router to the phone jack. I do have an old rotary dial phone in the living room. It doesn't have a DSL filter on it, but it can't dial out, only ring and answer calls. It seems even our corded phones don't work in a power outage and if I remember right, there is no backup battery in the router.

I also have a wireless router plugged into the Comcast router so all of our wireless devices have a signal. That is two smartphones, a Wii and in the rare instance I use it, my laptop.

 

[gusherb]

We have Comcast at home, I put a UPS on the modem and router to keep it up for around 8 hours in a power outage, but the first extended outage we had I discovered Comcast's own backups only last 45 minutes here. So that made the UPS and a VoIP line as a backup pointless. I however keep the VoIP lines around for my old phones and because I'm using some really cheap providers, with my own equipment, so it works out to be less than $10 a month. 

If shit hits the fan then Verizon will have to do, if they somehow fail (like they did in FL during their last hurricane) I have extra SIM cards for other carriers laying around that I can activate in a pinch. 

 

Also, I rewired all the phone wiring in the house with Cat5 back in 2011, and gradually ran cat5 for ethernet. Every room has a phone jack (was like that when the house was built),  but the original wiring was a nasty mess that resulted in many reliability issues with the phone, and DSL when we had that. I have everything terminating to 110 blocks, and the jacks are the keystone type with 110 punchdowns as well. Makes for a solid connection. 

 

[ea56]

We can dial out and receive calls during a power outage. The longest outage we’ve had since we had this set up was about 8 hrs, and the phones worked the whole time.

Of course, we only used them as necessary, not knowing how long the outage would last, and also cognizant that the backup battery wouldn’t have a limitless charge. But, all in all it works fine.

We have a Wireless Gateway supplied by Comcast that controls the wi-fi and the VOIP. If Comcast does the install to backfed the signal its at least a $99.00 charge, so I did save some $, and it was easy.

The corded phones are Crosley repoductions of vintage dial phones, they have pushbuttons and operate like touchtone, not pulse phones. No line filters have been necessary.

https://www.xfinity.com/learn/home-phone-services/equipment
Eddie