wireless phone jack question?

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tferia74

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Okay, I do no have any working phone jacks in my house. We use our cable provider for our phone service. The problem is that the modem is upstairs, ans I need the main phone (with answering machine) downstairs. I know there are wireless phone jacks that works for this, but you have to connect the main phone to the main wireless jack, which has to be connected to the modem... which is upstairs.

Do I HAVE to connect the main phone to the main wireless jack? What if I just connected the main wireless jack to the modem upstairs, but didn't plug up a phone to it, and instead used the extension wireless jack downstairs and connected my main phone to that? Will that work or no?

If not, can someone please help me with a solution?? Thank you!!
 
you would not need to connect an actual phone to the transmitter part of the wireless phone jack system, as long as you connect it to the dial tone of the cable modem then the receiver portion of the wireless jack would work just fine..

carl's answer would work best if you did have existing wiring in your home
 
Here's the fast answer. The key is that you don't have any WORKING jacks in your house, but I gather that you DO have jacks. If you can unplug the outside line at the demarc (box outside your house) then all your old wiring will still be tied together. What comes out can go in, meaning that you could use a standard "T" adapter, plug it into a phone jack upstairs, connect your cable dial tone into one side of the "T" and the phone into the other. In the rest of the house, you would have cable dial tone at every jack.

The key is that you must make sure there is no telco battery left on the line or the whole thing fails.
That's why you have to find the connection to the outside world and disconnect it.
 
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