Corded Phones Work; Cordless Do Not

Do you mean no dialtone or do you mean no ring?

Sounds like your wiring is correct: modemVonageLinksys--laptop \-phones

Did any cordless phones get power via the rj11 connection? (rare)

Suggestion: disconnect all but one phone at a time. Which phones work?

If you > I just wired up my Vonage service. I'm using the house's existing

Finally solved this problem.

It turns out that my house has two lines wired instead of just one. By shear coincidence, all the cordless phones were pluged in to the line 2 and all the corded phones were plugged into line 1.

I was not aware of the two lines. So, when I disconneted my house from the phone company, I just wired back line 1 and didn't bother with 2 or

1. The solution was to wire all the "left" sides of the twisted pairs together and all of the "right" sides together which, of course, completed the circuit and fixed the problem.

Just for reference: Phone line color decode Red, Green - Line1 Yellow, Black - Line 2 Blue, White - Line 3

I wired RED YELLOW and BLUE together on one side and GREEN BLACK and WHITE together on the other side.

I hope this post helps someone in the future!

Johnny

Glad to hear it. That could become a classic phone-war-story!